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Banco de Bogota
Banco de Bogota S.A. is the oldest and second largest commercial bank in Colombia, behind Bancolombia.
Overview
Founded in 1870, Banco de Bogota is the oldest commercial banking institution in Colombia, and operates through 274 branches, five corporate service centers and a banking attention center in the country. On a national level, it also operates through subsidiaries: Corporacion Financiera Colombiana S.A., an investment bank; Almacenes Generales de Deposito "Almaviva S.A.", a products supply logistics company; Sociedad Fiduciaria Bogota "Fidubogota S.A." and Fiduciaria del Comercio "Fiducomercio S.A.", trust and portfolio investment companies; Leasing Bogota S.A., a leasing company; Valores Bogota S.A., a provider of brokerage services; and Fondos de Pensiones y Cesantias Porvenir, a pensions and suspensions administrator. It also owns bank subsidiaries in Panama and the Bahamas. In the United States, Banco de Bogota operates an agency in New York, New York, and an Edge Act Corporation in Miami, Florida. Grupo Aval, a holding company which is one of the largest and most influential financial entities in Colombia, owns a majority of the Bank's outstanding voting shares.
Software Implementation
On June 20, 2006, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Inc. announced the successful implementation of its retail lending software package, Advanced Lending Solution (ALS) Servicing Manager at Banco de Bogota. The efforts of the banks technical consultants and FIS experts enabled Banco de Bogota to be the first financial institution in its market to introduce a new personal loan product, "Prestamo Personal Libre Destino."
Banco de Bogota has utilized FIS deposits, savings, financial management and architecture to support its retail banking operations since 1988. Following a change in local banking regulations in the fourth quarter of 2005, the bank needed to upgrade its lending system quickly to launch a new consumer loan product into the market. Banco de Bogota introduced the new product in February, ahead of its competitors, and captured a significant share of the market.
The bank selected FIS ALS-Servicing Manager, a customizable loan processing application that supports customer and account servicing requirements for the life of the loan. The Banco de Bogota team quickly adjusted the features for the Prestamo Personal Libre Destino, using ALS-Servicing Managers real-time product parameter facility, to select processing options that addressed interest accruals, late charges and payment posting options. The Bank expected to attract 3,000 new customers a month with this new personal loan product. It is also planning a follow-up phase, which will utilize ALS-Servicing Manager for a new line of credit product and add additional inquiry transaction functionality for the teller system.Fidelity National Information Services' Lending Solution Implemented at Banco de Bogota in Less Than Three Months. Fidelity News Release, June 20, 2006
Regulation
Banco de Bogota is supervised by the Colombian Superintendency of Banking, which is primarily responsible for the regulation and supervision of Colombian financial institutions, including their foreign offices, subsidiaries, and affiliates. The Superintendency issues and promulgates supervisory regulations concerning accounting requirements, asset quality, management, operations, capital adequacy, loan classification and loan loss provision standards. In addition, the Superintendency monitors compliance by financial institutions with applicable laws and regulations and may order preventive measures and impose sanctions on financial institutions.Robert Dev. Frierson, 'Orders Issued Under International Banking Act - Banco de Bogota S.A. applies to Federal Reserve Board to establish an agency in Miami, Florida'. Federal Reserve Bulletin, August, 2001
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