This year I will present the Report on Operations and Activities that the Bank is required by law to make to Parliament. Here this morning I will touch on the major events. In 2015 we launched a new plan for the rationalization of the branch network to improve service quality and achieve permanent cost savings.
With the closure of 19 branches and 3 detached supervision divisions, chosen on the basis of local demand for the services of each, the network now consists of 39 branches; there were 97 in 2008. With the definitive abandonment of the old provincial branch structure, the branches located in the regional capitals play a central role in the Bank’s new configuration.