Banco Nacional de Costa Rica

Key details

• Parent: assets

Overview

Banco Nacional de Costa Rica is Costa Rican federal commercial bank + Costa Rican federal government fully owned + Costa Rica's largest commercial bank by assets [1, cr-cro].

History

Oct 9 1914 — Banco Nacional de Costa Rica founded by President Alfredo González Flores as Costa Rican federal commercial bank distinctive Costa Rican banking heritage.

2013 — BN Móvil mobile banking app launch.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Banco Nacional de Costa Rica BNCR (Costa Rican federal commercial bank; Costa Rican federal government fully owned).

Major shareholders: Government of Costa Rica (Ministry of Finance) fully owned.

Regulators: SUGEF Costa Rica + BCCR.

Technical integration

BN Móvil mobile app (iOS + Android) + bncr.fi.cr online + BNCR branch network across Costa Rica + BNCR Visa + Mastercard cards; CR IBAN + SINPE + SINPE Móvil + SINPE TP.

Implementations & partners

Major Costa Rican banking + payments competitors: [[banco-popular-cr]] (Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal Costa Rica; Costa Rican federal commercial bank for cooperative + community development) + [[bac-cr]] (BAC Credomatic Costa Rica; BAC Credomatic Central American banking group; Grupo Aval Colombian parent; Central America's largest banking group) + [[banco-cathay]] (Banco Cathay Costa Rica; Costa Rican commercial bank) + [[banco-internacional-cr]] (Banco Internacional de Costa Rica BICSA; Costa Rican commercial bank; Costa Rican state-owned via Banco Nacional + Banco de Costa Rica JV) + [[davivienda]] (Davivienda Costa Rica; Colombian Davivienda Costa Rican subsidiary post-2012 HSBC Costa Rica acquisition) + [[scotiabank-cr]] (Scotiabank Costa Rica; Scotiabank Canadian parent subsidiary) + [[promerica-cr]] (Banco Promérica Costa Rica; Promerica Financial Corporation parent) + [[banco-de-costa-rica]] (Banco de Costa Rica; Costa Rican federal commercial bank).

Regulators: SUGEF Costa Rica + BCCR.

Status

Active, Costa Rican federal commercial bank + Costa Rican federal government fully owned + Costa Rica's largest commercial bank by assets [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 BNCR — official
• 2 BNCR — Wikipedia
• cr-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/CR-costa-rica.md

Source

Biography extracted from banco-nacional-cr.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.