Financial Infrastructure Report

With the Financial Infrastructure Report, each year, Banco de la República provides a complete overview of the local financial infrastructure. Each edition of the report has four objectives: 1) to disclose in a consolidated manner the evolution in figures of payment infrastructures, both of financial assets and of goods and services; 2) to present topics that are under international debate and that are of interest to the industry that provides payment clearing and settlement services; 3) to provide the public with a conceptual basis on retail-value payment processes, as well as trends in retail payments made in the circuit of natural and legal persons; and 4) to inform the public, the industry, and other financial authorities of the methodological progress made with the line of research applied to the analysis of the stability of payment systems.