Rule · SBS · 6 May 2025 · Resolución SBS 01661-2025

Resolution SBS No. 01661-2025: Approves New Regulation on Complementary Channels for Public Attention of Financial System Companies and Electronic Money Issuers

Companies must obtain Board approval and submit a risk report to the Superintendency prior to implementing correspondent ATMs or Basic Operation Establishments (EOBs). For EOBs, cash limits are capped at 2 UIT per person daily and 10 UIT in the register, with expansions above 10 UIT requiring detailed risk justification. Companies must maintain updated business plans, operator registers, and website disclosures, while monitoring compliance with prudential limits and AML/CFT requirements.

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Annotations and obligations
69 obligations · 31 permissions · 30 definitions · 20 reporting items
  • Obligation 69
  • Permission 31
  • Definition / condition 30
  • Reporting template 20
  • background, boilerplate

Lineage: Amended

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What changed in the obligations

Against Resolution SBS No. 4798-2015: Regulation of Complementary Customer Service Channels of Financial System Companies and Electronic Money Issuers (2015-08-21)

26 new obligations · 4 changed obligations · 5 changes of scope · 5 not carried over

54 obligations are the same in both texts.

Changed (9)
  • Scope
    Before
    c) Disbursement of personal credits granted by the company.
    Now
    5.1. Through correspondent ATMs, companies may carry out the following operations and services: c) Disbursement of consumer and microenterprise credits.
  • Scope
    Before
    g) Receive cash deposits in the client's or third parties' accounts.
    Now
    5.1. Through correspondent ATMs, companies may carry out the following operations and services: g) Receive cash deposits, from clients or users, in client accounts.
  • What must be done
    Before
    q) Other services, with the prior consent of this Superintendence, for which they must describe the characteristics of the service to be provided, and attach the risk assessment report prepared by the company's Risk Unit.
    Now
    5.1. Through correspondent ATMs, companies may carry out the following operations and services: q) Other operations and services, with prior authorization of this Superintendency.
  • What must be done
    Before
    For this, companies must provide detailed information about the proposed modality, and attach the reports prepared by the Risk Unit.
    Now
    5.1. Through correspondent ATMs, companies may carry out the following operations and services: For this, companies must submit an authorization request addressed to this Superintendency, attaching the risk evaluation report prepared by the Risk Unit.
  • Scope
    Before
    Likewise, within the framework of the general due diligence regime in customer knowledge, and under the responsibility of the companies, through correspondent ATMs they may receive applications from natural persons regarding the opening of checking, time deposit and savings accounts, as well as applications for personal credits, which will be forwarded by the correspondent ATM to the company, in …
    Now
    5.2. Likewise, within the framework of the general due diligence regime in customer knowledge, and under the responsibility of the companies, through correspondent ATMs they may receive requests from natural persons regarding the opening of demand, time deposit and savings accounts other than basic accounts, as well as requests for consumer and microenterprise credits, which are sent by the corre…
  • Scope
    Before
    Companies may conduct advertising and deliver information that facilitates the opening of deposit accounts other than basic accounts, general electronic money accounts, as well as granting credits, subsequently in the company's offices.
    Now
    5.3. Companies may carry out advertising and deliver information that provides guidance on the products and services they offer.
  • Scope
    Before
    Companies wishing to obtain authorization to operate with correspondent ATMs must submit an authorization request to this Superintendence, attaching the information indicated below: d) Copy of the Risk Unit Report or equivalent containing the assessment of risks associated with the operations to be provided through correspondent ATMs and determination of measures to be taken to control identified…
    Now
    For this, companies must submit an authorization request addressed to this Superintendency, attaching the following information: b) Risk Report for new products and significant changes prepared by the Risk Unit, in accordance with what is established in Circular No. G-165-2012.
  • What must be done
    Before
    Companies that operate and use the correspondent ATM channel must comply with the following: For this, they must establish evaluation criteria that consider, among others, the following aspects, whenever applicable: a) Financial situation, which includes as a minimum, not having been classified, in their status as debtor, in the categories of Substandard, Doubtful or Loss in the financial system.
    Now
    For this, companies, in addition to establishing criteria for compliance with the requirements established in the Regulation on Corporate Governance and Integral Risk Management (Resolution SBS No. 272-2017 and its modifications), the Regulation for Operational Risk Management (Resolution SBS No. 2… a) Financial situation and payment behavior in the financial system, for which, among others, cred…
  • What must be done
    Before
    At a minimum, they must publish on their website that information from the aforementioned register that allows users to identify the authorized correspondent ATMs through which they can operate.
    Now
    As a minimum, they must publish this information on their website and keep it continuously updated, to facilitate the identification of the authorized correspondent ATMs through which clients or users can carry out their operations and services.
New in this text (26)
  • 4.1. The Board of Directors must approve the decision to sign contracts with correspondent ATMs, which must be recorded in the corresponding minutes.
  • Such approval is carried out only once for the decision to implement the correspondent ATM channel.
  • This report must be prepared and sent prior to the initial implementation of the correspondent ATM channel, as well as for any significant change in its functioning after its implementation, specifying the limits established by the company for the provision of the operations and services offered through said channel.
  • Once the correspondent ATMs are implemented, the business plan must be updated prior to the execution of the significant changes described in item 4.2 of article 4 of this Regulation and be available to this Superintendency when requested.
  • 10.1. Through EOBs, companies may carry out the operations and services indicated in item 5.1 of article 5 of this Regulation and additionally may carry out the following operations and services, as applicable to the operations and services they are authorized to perform: a) Disbursements of other credits with account credit.
  • 10.1. Through EOBs, companies may carry out the operations and services indicated in item 5.1 of article 5 of this Regulation and additionally may carry out the following operations and services, as applicable to the operations and services they are authorized to perform: b) Evaluation and approval of credits.
  • 10.1. Through EOBs, companies may carry out the operations and services indicated in item 5.1 of article 5 of this Regulation and additionally may carry out the following operations and services, as applicable to the operations and services they are authorized to perform: c) Opening of demand, time deposit and savings accounts.
  • 10.1. Through EOBs, companies may carry out the operations and services indicated in item 5.1 of article 5 of this Regulation and additionally may carry out the following operations and services, as applicable to the operations and services they are authorized to perform: d) Opening of general electronic money accounts.
  • These limits include 1: b) Cash limit per person for a maximum daily amount of 2 UIT for other operations other than credit operations.
  • These limits include 1: c) Daily limit for cash in the register up to 10 UIT.
  • These limits include 1: Exceptionally, this limit may be expanded up to 30 UIT, provided that the company implements control measures consistent with the higher level of risk assumed and sends the report referred to in items 10.4 and 10.5 of this article.
  • The limits established by the company, as well as any modification to said limits, must be within the maximum amounts established in numeral 10.3 of this article.
  • 10.5. In the case of implementing limits for cash in vault exceeding 10 UIT, the report referred to in numeral 10.4 of this article must include, in addition, the description of the risks derived from the change, the controls implemented to mitigate them, the geographic location of the EOBs included in the limit expansion, and the justification supporting said expansion.
  • As a minimum, the controls must include aspects related to the custody, handling, transfer, and security of cash; segregation of functions or double control mechanisms in the receipt, custody, and counting of cash; periodic counts or equivalent controls; reconciliation of operations and cash balances; insurance coverage for cash in vault and in transit; physical security and video surveillance of…
  • Likewise, companies must periodically monitor the justifications supporting the expansion of the daily cash in vault limit above 10 UIT, in order to verify that such need persists over time.
  • 10.8. Once the EOBs are implemented, the business plan referred to in literal b) of numeral 12.1 of article 12 of this Regulation must be kept updated.
  • The business plan must be available to this Superintendency when requested.
  • 12.1. Companies wishing to operate with EOBs must submit an authorization request addressed to this Superintendency, which is granted only once, attaching the following information: These must include the limits established by the company for the provision of operations and services offered through EOBs.
  • Article Second.- Modify Chapter V "Complementary Information" of the Accounting Manual for Financial System Companies, approved by Resolution SBS No. 895-98 and its modifying and complementary norms, according to the following provisions: In the case of deposits, loans, and personnel of Basic Operation Establishments (EOBs), this information must be reported consolidated with that corresponding t…
  • Article Second.- Modify Chapter V "Complementary Information" of the Accounting Manual for Financial System Companies, approved by Resolution SBS No. 895-98 and its modifying and complementary norms, according to the following provisions: Likewise, incorporate as note 14 the following text: "14/ Report the code of the office geographically closest to the EOB at the district, provincial, or depart…
  • Article Sixth.- Modify the Regulation on Infractions and Sanctions of the Superintendency of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators, approved by Resolution SBS No. 2755-2018 and its modifying norms, in the following terms: 1. Modify numeral 35) of Section II "Serious Infractions" of Annex 2 "Specific Infractions of the financial system and of complementary and related service c…
  • Article Sixth.- Modify the Regulation on Infractions and Sanctions of the Superintendency of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators, approved by Resolution SBS No. 2755-2018 and its modifying norms, in the following terms: 2. Incorporate as numeral 86) in Section II "Serious Infractions" of Annex 2 "Specific Infractions of the financial system and of complementary and related s…
  • Article Sixth.- Modify the Regulation on Infractions and Sanctions of the Superintendency of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators, approved by Resolution SBS No. 2755-2018 and its modifying norms, in the following terms: 3. Incorporate as numeral 87) in Section II "Serious Infractions" of Annex 2 "Specific Infractions of the financial system and of complementary and related s…
  • Article Sixth.- Modify the Regulation on Infractions and Sanctions of the Superintendency of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators, approved by Resolution SBS No. 2755-2018 and its modifying norms, in the following terms: 4. Incorporate as numeral 88) in Section II "Serious Infractions" of Annex 2 "Specific Infractions of the financial system and of complementary and related s…
  • In the case of operations and services managed by Basic Operation Establishments (EOBs), the code of the office geographically closest to the EOB at the district, provincial, or departmental level must be reported.
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Not carried over (5)
  • Companies wishing to obtain authorization to operate with correspondent ATMs must submit an authorization request to this Superintendence, attaching the information indicated below: a) Copy of the Board of Directors minutes where the decision to sign correspondent ATM contracts is recorded.
  • Within the framework of the general due diligence regime in customer knowledge, through basic operation establishments, companies may receive applications from natural persons regarding the opening of checking, time deposit and savings accounts, as well as applications for personal credits, which will be forwarded to the company's offices.
  • In the case of companies authorized to open basic operation establishments and correspondent ATMs, if a significant increase occurs in the service provision limits reported to this Superintendence, this must be considered a significant change in the operational environment.
  • The provisions of Article 10 of this Regulation are not applicable to those companies that, on the date of entry into force of this regulation, have authorization to operate with correspondent ATMs.
  • Article Third.- Incorporate into Article 14 of the “Regulation of Electronic Money Issuers”, approved by Resolution SBS No. 6284-2013, as information that EEDEs must remit to Report No. 30 “Automated Teller Machines, Basic Operation Establishments and Correspondent ATMs” of Chapter V

“Not carried over” means the sentence has no counterpart in this text; the rule can still be in force in another text.

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