v3.26.1
Contingencies and Commitments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Contingencies and Commitments [Abstract]  
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:

 

(a.1)Contingent loans:

 

   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.