Uruguay · Financial institution
Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay (BROU) is a bank owned by the Uruguayan state, with its head office at Cerrito 351, Montevideo. It was founded in 1896 and is supervised by the Banco Central del Uruguay. It offers retail, corporate, agricultural and SME banking through branches across Uruguay and two foreign branches, in New York and Buenos Aires. It describes itself as the most important bank in Uruguay.
Licences and registrations
Held by the legal entity, not by this BIC
This BIC is mapped to LEI 579100IKDIDEFDDIH076 (Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay) in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. The legal entity’s page is Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (BROUARBA). None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
Licences belong to the legal entity. Each applies in the country of the regulator that granted it, not to every BIC that carries the LEI.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- BROUUYMMXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under BROUUYMM directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 1981-11-16
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Ownership
State-owned
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Banco República (BROU)
- Ownership
- The bank is owned by the Uruguayan state. The executive branch appoints the president of its board of directors.
- Ultimate owner
- Oriental Republic of Uruguay (State), Uruguay
- Head office
- Cerrito 351, 11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Name in the local language
- Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay
Business lines
According to its June 2026 financial synthesis, lending splits into retail banking and a corporate division that includes agricultural lending, with a network of 129 domestic branches and two branches abroad.
Online
- Websites & references
- brou.com.uy ↗
ebanking.brou.com.uy ↗ eBROU online banking portal
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · WhatsApp ↗
Sources · 9 pages consulted
- brou.com.uy/en/
- brou.com.uy/documents/20182/52654/personal-superior.pdf/73635813-09e7-4520-ab63-29ef5c2b724f
- brou.com.uy/documents/20182/459463/Web+Sintesis+Financiera+Junio+2026+Ingles.pdf/6421c715-a0ee-4c5a-9
- brou.com.uy/clientes-empresa/agro/comercio-exterior/transferencias-al-exterior
- brou.com.uy/personas/servicios/giros-transferencias/recibir-exterior
- gub.uy/presidencia/institucional/normativa/resolucion-sn025-se-designa-presidente-del-directorio
- montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/BROU-fue-multado-por-incumplir-plazos-para-responder-reclamo-de-un-cliente-los-d
- brou.com.uy/presentacion-del-nuevo-directorio-del-brou
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_Oriental_del_Uruguay
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chair
- Álvaro García Presidente (President of the Board of Directors)
- Chief executive
- Mariela Espino Gerente General (General Manager)
- Executive
- Daniella Lanza Gerente Ejecutivo de Finanzas (Executive Manager, Finance)
- Executive
- Adriana Rodríguez Vicepresidente (Vice-President of the Board)
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Uruguay
- Central Bank of Uruguay (Banco Central del Uruguay), through its Superintendency of Financial Services Central bankPrudential supervisorAML supervisorConduct
Recent events 1 enforcement or investigation item
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Enforcement
The Banco Central del Uruguay's Superintendency of Financial Services fined the bank 58,500 indexed units for missing complaint-response deadlines, increased 50% for repeat offences.
montevideo.com.uy ↗ -
Leadership
The Council of Ministers appointed Álvaro García as president of the bank's board of directors on 25 March 2025.
gub.uy ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- BROUUYMMXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- BROUBank
- UYCountry · Uruguay
- MMLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers
- Country · region
- Uruguay · Latin America & Caribbean
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Registered address
- CERRITO 351 ZABALA STREET MONTEVIDEO 11000 URUGUAY
- Operational address
- CERRITO 351 ZABALA STREET MONTEVIDEO 11000 MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>BROUUYMMXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>579100IKDIDEFDDIH076</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>BROUUYMMXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>579100IKDIDEFDDIH076</LEI>
<Nm>BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>MONTEVIDEO</TwnNm>
<Ctry>UY</Ctry>
<AdrLine>CERRITO 351 ZABALA STREET MONTEVIDEO 11000</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
Network
Correspondent banking
The bank publishes 10 accounts at other banks, across 2 regions.
- Own offices
- Correspondent banks: it holds accounts there
Hover over a branch, account or group to see its details
Correspondent accounts
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
10 accounts at other banks, in 3 currencies, as the bank publishes them: brou.com.uy ↗
| Currency | Correspondent | BIC | Account | Purpose | Directory check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | Bank of America United States | BOFAUS3N | — | USD transfers sent and received | Matches the Swift directory |
| USD | CitiBank United States | CITIUS33 | — | USD transfers sent and received | Matches the Swift directory |
| USD | Deutsche Bank United States | BKTRUS33 | — | USD transfers sent and received | Matches the Swift directory |
| USD | JPMorgan United States | CHASUS33 | — | USD transfers sent and received | Matches the Swift directory |
| USD | The Bank of New York Mellon United States | IRVTUS3N | — | USD transfers sent and received | Matches the Swift directory |
| EUR | Banco Santander Spain | BSCHESMM | — | EUR transfers | Matches the Swift directory |
| EUR | Caixabank Spain | CAIXESBB | — | EUR transfers | Matches the Swift directory |
| EUR | Commerzbank Germany | COBADEFF | — | EUR transfers | Matches the Swift directory |
| EUR | Deustche Bank Germany | DEUTDEFF | — | EUR transfers | Directory name differs DEUTSCHE BANK AG |
| CHF | UBS Switzerland | UBSWCHZH80A | — | CHF transfers | Matches the Swift directory |
Table titled 'Corresponsales disponibles a elección', listing correspondents by currency (USD, EUR, CHF) with BICs for payments sent and received. No account numbers are published. All 10 rows were extracted. The page is undated but was live in September 2026. The same table appears on the retail page https://www.brou.com.uy/personas/servicios/giros-transferencias/recibir-exterior, where both Deutsche Bank entries are spelt 'Deustche Bank'. Direction is recorded as nostro because these are the bank's routing correspondents, but the page does not say so. No separate SSI page was found. Each correspondent BIC is checked against the Swift directory: a BIC missing from it, or registered to a differently named bank, may be a typo or out of date. Confirm settlement instructions with the bank before relying on them.
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