| Contingencies and Commitments |
| 28. | Contingencies and Commitments: |
| (a) | The Bank and its subsidiaries have exposures associated with
contingent loans and other liabilities according to the following detail: |
| | |
2025 | | |
2024 | |
| | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | |
| Guarantees and sureties | |
| | |
| |
| Guarantees and sureties in domestic currency | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| Guarantees and sureties in foreign currency | |
| 288,710 | | |
| 336,737 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Letters of credit for goods circulation operations | |
| 449,759 | | |
| 442,216 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Debt purchase commitments in local currency abroad | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Transactions related to contingent events | |
| | | |
| | |
| Transactions related to contingent events in domestic currency | |
| 2,563,484 | | |
| 2,544,288 | |
| Transactions related to contingent events in foreign currency | |
| 609,777 | | |
| 580,338 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Undrawn credit lines with immediate termination | |
| | | |
| | |
| Available balance of lines of credit and agreed overdraft in current account – commercial loans | |
| 1,764,560 | | |
| 1,642,163 | |
| Available balance of lines of credit on credit card – commercial loans | |
| 370,983 | | |
| 359,638 | |
| Available balance of lines of credit and agreed overdraft in current account – consumer loans | |
| 1,501,358 | | |
| 1,497,076 | |
| Available balance of lines of credit on credit card – consumer loans | |
| 7,816,881 | | |
| 7,626,423 | |
| Available balance of lines of credit and agreed overdraft in current account – due from banks loans | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Undrawn credit lines | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Other commitments | |
| | | |
| | |
| Credits for higher studies Law No. 20,027 (CAE) | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| Other irrevocable credit commitments | |
| 69,191 | | |
| 51,889 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Other credit commitments | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Total | |
| 15,434,703 | | |
| 15,080,768 | |
| (a.2) | Responsibilities assumed to meet customer needs: |
| | |
2025 | | |
2024 | |
| | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | |
| | |
| | |
| |
| Transactions on behalf of third parties | |
| | |
| |
| Collections | |
| 138,556 | | |
| 214,446 | |
| Placement or sale of financial instruments | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| Transferred financial assets managed by the bank | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| Third-party resources managed by the bank | |
| 1,635,950 | | |
| 1,147,660 | |
| Subtotal | |
| 1,774,506 | | |
| 1,362,106 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Securities custody | |
| | | |
| | |
| Securities in custody by a banking subsidiary | |
| 9,719,621 | | |
| 7,443,549 | |
| Securities in custody by the bank | |
| 4,438,522 | | |
| 3,318,810 | |
| Securities in custody deposited in another entity | |
| 29,035,809 | | |
| 19,509,831 | |
| Securities issued by the bank | |
| — | | |
| — | |
| Subtotal | |
| 43,193,952 | | |
| 30,272,190 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Total | |
| 44,968,458 | | |
| 31,634,296 | |
| (b) | Lawsuits and legal proceedings: |
| (b.1) | Normal judicial contingencies in the industry: |
At the date of issuance of these Consolidated
Financial Statements, there are legal actions filed against the Bank related with the ordinary course operations. As of December 31, 2025,
the Bank maintain provisions for judicial contingencies amounting to Ch$2,037 million (Ch$1,592 million as of December 2024), which are
part of the item “Provisions for contingencies” in the Statement of Financial Position.
The estimated end dates of the related
legal contingencies are as follows:
| | |
As of December 31, 2025 | |
| | |
2026 | | |
2027 | | |
2028 | | |
2029 | | |
2030 | | |
Total | |
| | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | |
| Legal contingencies | |
| 596 | | |
| 1,441 | | |
| — | | |
| — | | |
| — | | |
| 2,037 | |
| (b.2) | Contingencies for significant lawsuits: |
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, there
are not significant lawsuits in court that affect or may affect these Consolidated Financial Statements.
| (c) | Guarantees granted by operations: |
| (i) | In the subsidiary Banchile Administradora General de Fondos
S.A.: |
In compliance with Article No, 12 of
Law No. 20,712, Banchile Administradora General de Fondos S.A., has designated Banco de Chile as the representative of the beneficiaries
of the guarantees it has established, and in such role the Bank has issued bank guarantees totaling UF 4,879,700 maturing January 8, 2026.
The subsidiary engaged a policy with Mapfre Seguros Generales S.A. for the Real State Funds by a guaranteed amount of UF 722,700.
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the
Bank has not guaranteed mutual funds.
| (ii) | In subsidiary Banchile Corredores de Bolsa S.A.: |
For the purposes of ensuring correct
and full compliance with all of its obligations as broker-dealer entity, in conformity with the provisions from Article 30 et seq of Law
No. 18,045 on the Securities Markets, the subsidiary established a guarantee in an insurance policy for UF 20,000, insured by Mapfre Seguros
Generales S.A., that matures on April 22, 2026, whereby the Securities Exchange of the Santiago Stock Exchange was appointed as the subsidiary’s
creditor representative.
| | |
2025 | | |
2024 | |
| Guarantees: | |
MCh$ | | |
MCh$ | |
| Shares received as collateral for simultaneous transactions: | |
| | |
| |
| Santiago Securities Exchange, Stock Exchange | |
| 23,244 | | |
| 9,171 | |
| Electronic Chilean Securities Exchange, Stock Exchange | |
| 37,559 | | |
| 32,024 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Fixed income securities delivered to guarantee CCLV system: | |
| | | |
| | |
| Santiago Securities Exchange, Stock Exchange | |
| 9,840 | | |
| 7,843 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Fixed income securities as collateral for the Santiago Stock Exchange | |
| 2,148 | | |
| 2,148 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Shares delivered to guarantee equity lending and short-selling: | |
| | | |
| | |
| Santiago Securities Exchange, Stock Exchange | |
| — | | |
| 4,744 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Cash guarantees received for operations with derivatives | |
| 8,477 | | |
| 3,931 | |
| Cash guarantees for operations with derivatives | |
| 2 | | |
| 4,043 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Equity securities received for operations with derivatives: | |
| | | |
| | |
| Electronic Chilean Securities Exchange, Stock Exchange | |
| — | | |
| 101 | |
| Depósito Central de Valores S.A. | |
| 1,635 | | |
| 2,227 | |
| | |
| | | |
| | |
| Total | |
| 82,905 | | |
| 66,232 | |
In conformity with the internal regulation
of the stock exchanges in which it participates, and for the purpose of ensuring its proper performance, the subsidiary Banchile Corredores
de Bolsa S.A maintains in favor of the Santiago Stock Exchange a guarantee in fixed income financial instruments equivalent to Ch$2,148
million. It also maintains a pledge in favor of the Electronic Stock Exchange for three hundred thousand shares of said institution.
Banchile Corredores de Bolsa S.A. keeps
an insurance policy current with Chubb Seguros Chile S.A. that expires June 30, 2026, this considers matters of employee fidelity, physical
losses, falsification or adulteration, and currency fraud with a coverage amount equivalent to US$20,000,000.
It also provided a bank guarantee in
the amount of UF 410,800 for the benefit of investors in portfolio management contracts. This bank guarantee is revaluated in UF to fixed
term, non-endorsable and has a maturity date of January 8, 2026.
It also provided a cash guarantee in
the amount of US$122,494.32 for the purpose of complying with the obligations to Pershing, for any operations conducted through that broker,
additionally, there are US$724,107.72 for variable equity operations.
A guarantee of UF 10,000 has been constituted,
to guarantee compliance with the investment portfolio management service contract. Such guarantee corresponds to a non-endorsable fixed-term
indexable bond in UF issued by Banco de Chile effective through January 27, 2026.
| (iii) | In subsidiary Banchile Corredores de Seguros Ltda. |
According to established in article
58, letter D of D.F.L. 251, as of December 31, 2025 the entity maintains two insurance policies effective from April 15, 2025 to April
14, 2026 which protect it against of potential damages caused by infractions of the law, regulations and complementary rules that regulate
insurance brokers, especially when the non-compliance comes from acts, errors or omissions of the broker, its representatives, agents
or dependents that participate in the intermediation.
The policies engaged are the following:
| Matter insured | |
Amount Insured (UF) | |
| | |
| |
| Errors and omissions liability policy | |
| 500 | |
| Civil responsibility policy | |
| 60,000 | |
| (d) | Through Exempt Resolution No. 270 dated October 30, 2014, the Superintendency of Securities and Insurance
(currently the Financial Market Commission) imposed a fine of UF 50,000 to Banchile Corredores de Bolsa S.A. for violations of the second
paragraph of article 53 of the Securities Market Law. The company filed a claim with the competent Civil Court requesting the annulment
of the fine. On December 10, 2019, a judgement in the case was issued reducing the fine to the amount of UF 7,500, which was confirmed
in the second instance by the Illustrious Court of Appeals of Santiago. The intervening parties filed cassation appeals in form and substance
with the Supreme Court against the sentence in second instance. On August 13, 2024 the Supreme Court ordered the hearing of the case,
which is pending as of this date. |
The company has not made provisions
considering that the Bank’s legal advisors in charge of the procedure estimate that there are solid grounds that the claim filed
by Banchile Corredores de Bolsa S.A. can be accepted.
|