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Anyone know what's up with Banco San Jose?

I am talking to someone who is telling me they are trying to get their money out and there are crowds of people along with news vans, it's almost impossible to get your money it is being said. Is all this based on rumor or fact?
 

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Someone just told me they shut down. It looks like Costa Rica is beginning to financially implode. I think these banks have made too many soft loans and are getting stuck with a lot of properties that are worth far less than was loaned against them. Be careful.
 

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Banco de San Jose is fine, the closing is just a rumor, check out article in Tuesday's La Nacion and most like more information in Wednesday's edition.


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Autoridades desvirtúan rumor de intervención a BAC San José

Banco cuenta con reservas para ahorros por $1 millón, si fuera necesario

David Leal C.
dleal@nacion.com


Autoridades del sistema financiero y del Banco BAC San José negaron que la Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras (SUGEF) haya intervenido esa entidad ayer o que pretenda hacerlo en los próximos días.

La posición fue externada luego de que se difundiera el rumor de que el BAC San José fue intervenido por el ente fiscalizador.

Luis Diego Vargas, presidente del Consejo de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (Conassif), dijo que no existe motivo alguno para que la SUGEF intervenga.

“La situación financiera de ese banco es muy estable y no ha presentado señales o problemas de faltante de dinero o de apalancamiento”, aseveró Vargas.

Sin embargo, ayer en las distintas sucursales del banco hubo filas de clientes de hasta 100 metros pues pretendían retirar sus ahorros. Esas colas causaron el caos vial en las cercanías de las agencias y aglomeración de personas.

Gerardo Corrales, gerente general de ese banco, dijo que todo es un rumor mal intencionado que se difundió rápidamente entre el público. Explicó que el lunes por la tarde se originó el cuchicheo y que continuó durante todo el martes, generalizándose entre personas físicas.

“Ayer por la tarde hablé con Óscar Rodríguez, superintendente de bancos, y me dijo que no existe una razón o motivo por la que se deba intervenir el BAC San José”, aseveró el gerente.

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Según datos de la SUGEF, a junio pasado el BAC San José mantenía activos por ¢231.395 millones, pasivos por ¢211.750 millones y un patrimonio de ¢19.644 millones.

Los indicadores financieros muestran una baja morosidad en sus créditos del 0,29%, un fuerte compromiso patrimonial y una rentabilidad sobre patrimonio del 24,73%, superior al promedio de mercado, del 15,19%.

Las obligaciones con el público (depósitos de ahorro, cuenta corriente, a plazo, a la vista) alcanzaron los ¢162.548 millones.

Según el reporte del banco, a las 5 p. m. los ahorrantes habían retirado unos $2 millones (cerca de ¢900 millones). Además, el banco mantiene una reserva para retiros de $1 millón (unos ¢442 millones).

Federico Albert, vicepresidente ejecutivo de Banco Banex, explicó que existe un debido proceso cuando se interviene un banco, con notificaciones a los participantes del mercado y que no es una acción de la noche a la mañana, como sí lo es el rumor que se desató ayer.

Agregó que antes de que el ente fiscalizador intervenga un banco, esa entidad enciende señales de alerta.

Fuentes oficiales de la SUGEF que prefirieron no ser identificadas confirmaron que no existe ninguna investigación en contra de BAC San José.

Se intentó obtener la opinión de Óscar Rodríguez, pero no fue localizado.

Posibles razones

Corrales dijo que, según las indagaciones realizadas, el rumor nació en el sector salud (entre médicos).

Comentó que algunos clientes le dijeron que entre las posibles razones que se manejan para el rumor se encuentra que el banco offshore BAC Florida (en Estados Unidos) recibió en marzo pasado una notificación del regulador bancario estadounidense, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

En ese documento se le solicitó a BAC Florida registrar en el Departamento del Tesoro las transacciones por $10.000 o más en efectivo que realizara. El objetivo de esa medida es monitorear posibles recursos que se utilizarían por terroristas.

Otra de las razones citadas es que con la intervención de la Corporación Fischel, la entidad bancaria se debilitó.

Pero Corrales dijo

que esas dos versiones y otras son falsas y se confabularon con un ambiente de nerviosismo por las recientes intervenciones de otras entidades financieras.

Además del banco, BAC San José cuenta con una operadora de pensiones, una arrendadora, sociedad administradora de fondos de inversión y un puesto de bolsa. Es miembro de la red financiera regional Banco de América Central (BAC), que tiene presencia en Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala y Florida (EE. UU.)

Colaboró Álvaro Murillo.

La Nacion
 

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Even though they are operated as two separate entities (Credomatic vrs Banco de San Jose) the fact is that they belong to the same "group"

With the incredible profits I have given them I don't see how it is possible for them to go broke
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That's good that it was just a rumor, especially the way banks are starting to fall down there.

Enjoy the general strike on Aug. 23!
 

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Rumors cause a run on major San José bank
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
BAC San José, one of the country’s strongest private banks, is in the midst of a run that officials think was sparked by rumors fabricated in bad faith.

The bank, based downtown, has about 20 branches around the country and is popularly considered a customer service-oriented organization for businessmen.

The rumor started Monday afternoon and by Tuesday crowds of depositors were at the various branches at least in the Central Valley seeking return of their money. When the banks closed at 7 p.m., some depositors tried to withdraw money via automatic teller machines. Others camped in front of the bank so they would be near the head of the line when offices open at 8 a.m. today.

A.M. Costa Rica became aware of the rumor about midday Tuesday. A number of expats prefer the institution, formerly called Banco de San José, over the national banks.

By 7 p.m. the manager of the bank, Gerardo Corrales Breñes, took to the television to assure depositors that there was no reason for the

bank run and that there was no open investigation of the bank. Curiously, the bank did not post anything to its overworked Web page to assure depositors.

Costa Ricans seem to be engaged in the bank run because they fear another collapse. Bantec and more recently Banco Elka were shut down by the Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras, the government oversight agency.

In addition, there is a general fear of the economy and distrust in the government’s ability to protect citizens from economic woes.

Luis Diego Vargas, president of the Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero, called operations at BAC San José absolutely normal in a television interview. It was he who cited the bad faith aspects of the rumor.

Oscar Rodriguez of the Superintendencia, said in the same segment that BAC San José is a very strong institution. He and Vargas agreed that deliberately circulating rumors to harm a business was a crime in Costa Rica.


Alfonso Rodriquez was not overly concerned.
A.M. Costa Rica/José Pablo Ramírez Vindas
A fast food worker and friends seeks her pay
Teller machines were out of service for evening withdrawals
By Saray Ramírez Vindas
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Automatic tellers of BAC San José were out of service last night. Some depositors went through the downtown unsuccessfully seeking a machine that would return them some of their money.

Some were unhappy, including one employee of Kentucky Fried Chicken on Paseo Colón who said her employer had just deposited salaries into
the bank. She was unable to make a withdrawal.
Even as late as 10:30 p.m. depositors were trying to make withdrawals.

Bank officials had posted a message from Gerardo Corrales Breñes, the general manager. But it said little more than he had said on a television show. Officials also posted in one place a page of the La Nación Web site that said the bank panic was without foundation.
 

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I just read that..."Oscar Rodriguez of the Superintendencia, and Luis Diego Vargas, president of the Consejo Nacional de Supervision del Sistema Financiero, [have declared] the deliberately circulating rumors to harm a business [is] a crime in Costa Rica.
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You sportsbooks kids better watch out!!! The Policia de Rumores are going to kick your doors in, lock you up and throw away the key if you guys keep mouthing off!
 

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Apparently (And this is also a rumour until there is some evidence) the rumors started from a clinic that recently got involved in legal collection of money (ummm, they owe money to bank and don't pay so the bank pulls out the lawyers...not sure how its said in english)

It was quite funny to see the huge lines........thank god I don't have to go to withdraw money or I would be really pissed from having to wait 2 hours.....typically an visit to bank of san jose doesnt last longer than 10 minutes since they have the RIGHT number of tellers (as opposed to the goverment banks where they have 1 or 2.....ugh)
 

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American, you remind me of the Liberals in the US. They get joy in seeing bad things happen in the country. Only difference is you seem to enjoy it when you hear bad news about CR
 

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I wouldn't have enjoyed Banco San jose closing down at all. I still have an account with them.
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You're right about the liberals pulling for bad news inthe U.S. though. They won't welcome the bad news once they get one of their own in power, though. This coming election I'll be voting Republican. The funny thing is, while the result is me voting for Bush, what I'm really doing is voting against all the liberal a-holes.
 

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When I found out about this issue at about 7 am I knew I was in the wrong line of work.......obviously other people who IS into crime had the same idea of just waiting for idiotic people walking outside the bank and seeing how much they can rob............

So far 4 reported incidents.......the one that is in the hospital right now just withdrew 10k and was on his way home
 

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wolfie....No way. I thought that might happen. They're picking off the people pulling the money out. Unbelievable.
 

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If I thought about it the crooks probably thought about it the minute they saw something was going on. The guy shot was caught on tv cameras leaving the bank and apparently was carrying 10000 dollars in a yellow envelope...........they don't get any stupider.......OBVIOUSLY I feel for the guy, he was just trying to protect his savings.....but come on........
 

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I hate the situation it makes all of us ticos look really bad, only ignorant people were stupid enough to believe a rumor and take the money out.

The bank is fine, it even close out as the best one for the year.
 

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