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In their meeting today, the Board of Directors of Banco de la Republica, the Central Bank of Colombia, defined the 2012 inflation target in 3%+/-1pp. The Board believes that the conditions or the Colombian economy let foresee that, hereinafter, inflation will remain in this range corresponding to…
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The Board of Directors of Banco de la Republica, the Central Bank of Colombia, has decided to increase de intervention interest rate by 25 base points. Therefore, the base rate for expansion auctions will be 5.00%. In the decision-making process, the following was taken into account:…
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The Board of Directors of Banco de la Republica, the Central Bank of Colombia, decided today to maintain its intervention interest rate unaltered at 4.75%. This decision was made in taking the following into account:
International financial markets continue to show high volatility levels as…
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The Board of Directors of Banco de la Republica, in their meeting held today, decided to keep unaltered the intervention interest rate at 4.5%. This decision was made after due consideration of the following:
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The Board of Directors of Banco de la Republica, in their meeting held today, decided to keep unchanged the intervention interest rate at 4.5%. This decision was made after due consideration of the following:
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According to the thirteenth version of the Opinion Panel of the Cifras & Conceptos firm, Banco de la República was once again recognized as the institution that generates the most trust among opinion leaders. This year it received a rating of 69 points out of 100, which is a higher score than…
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With a score of 68 points out of 100, Banco de la República was recognized as the institution that generates the most confidence among the country's opinion leaders. This is according to the twelfth version of an opinion poll conducted by Cifras & Conceptos.The firm surveyed 2,004 opinion…
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Six Board Members voted in favor of this decision and one member voted for a 50-bp increase.
In its policy discussion, the Board considered the following elements:
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The decision was based on the following considerations:
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During the previous month, adverse financial conditions worsened, brought on by global and idiosyncratic factors. These conditions caused —among other effects— a higher monthly depreciation than that of other emerging economies.
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The decision to raise the benchmark interest rate to 7.5% was unanimous, and was based on the following considerations:
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Six board members voted in favor of this decision and one voted for a 100 basis point increase.
The decision was based on the following considerations:
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The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), issued by a private and independent body, are based on the principles of the international accounting framework that has become the world standard for the production of homogeneous, comparable and transparent financial information.
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In the last year (to April 2019), government deposits at the Central Bank of Colombia have increased by COP $7.6 trillion. This movement generates a monetary contraction. It is the Central Bank's role to provide the liquidity required by the economy in the terms and conditions it deems appropriate…
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In their meeting today, the Board of Directors of the Banco de la Republica decided to hold the benchmark interest rate at 3.25%. In making this decision, the Board took the following relevant factors into account:- The figures for the third quarter show that the growth of a large number of…
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In this paper we find empirical evidence of bank lending channel for Colombia, using a balanced panel data of about four thousand non-financial firms. We find that increases in the interest rate, proxiing for the monetary policy instrument, lead to a reduction in the proportion of bank loans, out…
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This paper tests the importance of the financial structure of banks in the bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission in Colombia, using an unbalanced panel of 51 banks for the period of 1996:4-2014:8. We find that an increase in the interbank rate (proxy of the intervention rate) has a…
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We study the existence of a monetary policy transmission mechanism through banks in Colombia, using monthly banks’ balance sheet data for the period 1996:4 – 2012:12. We obtain results which are consistent with the basic postulates of the bank lending channel (and the risk-taking channel)…
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The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Colombia, in today’s meeting, approved the Bank's 2017 financial statements. Both the Auditor General to the Bank and the external audit firm Deloitte issued their opinion on said statements without any observations. Additionally, the Office of the…
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In this paper, we study the empirical relationship between credit funding sources and the financial vulnerability of the Colombian banking system. We propose a statistical model to measure and predict banking-fragility episodes associated with credit funding sources classified into retail deposits…
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Cumulative annual production of banknotes and coins by denominationThis report contains the statistics and historical production records and its annual shares by denomination.
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This paper examines trends in banknote printing during the period 2000-2005 for a crosssection of 56 central banks. It was identified that central banks have implemented new strategies to increase efficiency in the production of banknotes, primarily due to the increase in the demand for currency in…
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The central bank issues the country’s currency in the form of banknotes and coins. This is an exclusive function that may not be delegated. Consequently, the production, issue, supply and destruction of all Colombian currency is solely the responsibility of Banco de la República.
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In complex systems, homogeneity (i.e. lack of diversity) has been documented as a source of fragility. Likewise, financial sector’s homogeneity has been documented as a contributing factor for systemic risk. We assess homogeneity in the Colombian case by measuring how similar banks are regarding…
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