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Cash and cash equivalents | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Disclosure of cash and cash equivalents [Abstract] |
Disclosure of cash and cash equivalents [text block] |
4. | Cash and cash equivalents
|  | December 31, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016 |
Cash and due from banks |  |  | 11,032 |  |  | 89,656 |
Interest-bearing deposits in banks |  |  | 661,016 |  |  | 979,882 |
Total |  |  | 672,048 |  |  | 1,069,538 |
Less: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Pledged deposits |  |  | 53,241 |  |  | 61,812 |
Total cash and cash equivalents |  |  | 618,807 |  |  | 1,007,726 |
The following table presents the details on interest-bearing deposits in banks and pledged deposits:
|  | December 31, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016 |
|  | Amount |  | Range Interest rate |  | Amount |  | Range Interest rate |
Interest-bearing deposits in banks: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Demand deposits(1) |  |  | 661,016 |  |  | 0.25% a 1.55 | % |  | 854,882 |  |  | 0.01% to 0.77 | %
Time deposits(2) |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 125,000 |  |  | 0.83% to 0.88 | %
Total |  |  | 661,016 |  |  |  |  |  | 979,882 |  |  |  |
Pledged deposits: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
New York(3) |  |  | 3,000 |  |  | - |  |  | 2,800 |  |  | - |
Panama(4) |  |  | 50,241 |  |  | 1.42 | % |  | 59,012 |  |  | 0.66 | %
Total |  |  | 53,241 |  |  |  |  |  | 61,812 |  |  |  |
| (1) | Demand deposits with bearing interest based on the daily rates determined by banks.
| (2) | Time deposits “overnight” calculated on an average interest rate.
| (3) | The New York Agency had a pledged deposit with the New York State Banking Department, as required by law since March 1994.
| (4) | The Bank had pledged deposits to secure derivative financial instruments transactions.

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