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Related party transactions (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Disclosure of related party [Abstract] |
Disclosure of transactions between related parties [text block] | During the reporting years, total compensation paid to directors and the executives of Bladex as representatives of the Bank amounted to:
|  | December 31, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016 |  | December 31, 2015 |
Expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Compensation costs paid to directors |  |  | 884 |  |  | 880 |  |  | 949 |
Compensation costs paid to executives |  |  | 2,370 |  |  | 4,055 |  |  | 4,601 |

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