A new way of encouraging transparency

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Financial institutions must display, at their branches, the rates on time deposits made online or at a teller window in a place clearly visible to the public since August 23.

The Board of the BCRA has issued Communication A 6753, requiring financial institutions to inform, at their branches, the rates on time deposits sorted out by the channel through which they are made: online and at a teller window. This requirement seeks to encourage competition in the financial system and enhance consumers’ access to information.

Communication A 6753, to be enforced on August 23, further requires financial institutions to inform the annual percentage rate and the effective annual rate.

This regulation is associated with a resolution made available by means of Communication A 6419 dated December 29, 2017, on “Information Released through Electronic Channels to Protect the Environment,” which lists the information that financial institutions must make available to the public at their branches.

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