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Financial instruments with off-balance sheet credit risk (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Bank's Financial Instruments With Off-Balance Sheet Credit Risk [Table Text Block] | The Bank’s outstanding financial instruments with off-balance sheet credit risk were as follows:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
Confirmed letters of credit |  |  | 89,752 |  |  | 221,963 |
Stand-by letters of credit and guaranteed – Commercial risk |  |  | 137,817 |  |  | 137,285 |
Credit commitments |  |  | 158,549 |  |  | 121,175 |
|  |  | 386,118 |  |  | 480,423 |
Remaining Maturity Profile Of Bank's Outstanding Financial Instruments With Off-Balance Sheet Credit Risk [Table Text Block] | As of Decembet 31, 2014, the remaining maturity profile of the Bank’s outstanding financial instruments with off-balance sheet credit risk is as follows:
Maturities |  | Amount |
Within 1 year |  |  | 292,720 |
From 1 to 2 years |  |  | 41,269 |
From 2 to 5 years |  |  | 51,551 |
More than 5 years |  |  | 578 |
|  |  | 386,118 |
Disclosure Related To Off Balance Sheet Exposure By Country Risk [Table Text Block] | As of December 31, 2014 and 2013 the breakdown of the Bank’s off-balance sheet exposure by country risk is as follows:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
Country: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Argentina |  |  | - |  |  | 295 |
Bolivia |  |  | - |  |  | 80 |
Brazil |  |  | 19,698 |  |  | 22,567 |
Chile |  |  | 27,802 |  |  | - |
Colombia |  |  | 53,874 |  |  | 38,545 |
Costa Rica |  |  | - |  |  | 897 |
Dominican Republic |  |  | 14,806 |  |  | 108 |
Ecuador |  |  | 86,436 |  |  | 153,072 |
El Salvador |  |  | 25 |  |  | 25 |
Guatemala |  |  | 37,988 |  |  | 43,548 |
Honduras |  |  | 412 |  |  | 412 |
Jamaica |  |  | 415 |  |  | 338 |
Mexico |  |  | 64,324 |  |  | 20,969 |
Netherlands |  |  | - |  |  | 17,833 |
Panama |  |  | 20,675 |  |  | 96,943 |
Paraguay |  |  | 418 |  |  | 2 |
Peru |  |  | 16,225 |  |  | 41,063 |
Switzerland |  |  | 1,000 |  |  | 1,000 |
United Kingdom |  |  | - |  |  | 70 |
Uruguay |  |  | 40,946 |  |  | 40,946 |
Venezuela |  |  | 1,074 |  |  | 1,710 |
|  |  | 386,118 |  |  | 480,423 |

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