Colombia · Financial institution
Banco de Occidente S.A.
Legal name in the LEI recordBANCO DE OCCIDENTE
Banco de Occidente is a privately owned Colombian sociedad anónima with its registered domicile in Santiago de Cali. It is a subsidiary of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A., which held 72.3% of its shares at 31 December 2025. The bank offers corporate, SME, government and retail banking, leasing and foreign-exchange services, and its ordinary shares are registered on the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia. It absorbed Banco Aliadas in 2005, Banco Unión Colombiano in 2006 and Leasing de Occidente in 2010. In 2026 it absorbed its trust subsidiary Fiduciaria de Occidente.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- OCCICOBCXXX 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 OCCICOBC 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
- 7 branch codes
- BIC first registered
- 1987-11-16
- Last updated
- 2024-04-27
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Ticker OCCIDENTE
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Banco de Occidente
- Ownership
- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. holds 72.3% of the shares directly, according to Grupo Aval's ownership structure at 31 December 2025.
- Direct parent
- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. ↗, Colombia 72.3%
- Major shareholder
- Seguros de Vida Alfa S.A. 7.27% · 31 Dec 2020
- Stock listing
- Bolsa de Valores de Colombia OCCIDENTE
- Head office
- Carrera 4 No. 7-61, 760044 Santiago de Cali, Colombia
- Company register
- NIT 890300279-4 (Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia)
Business lines
Commercial loans formed COP 38.95 trillion of the COP 56.83 trillion gross loan book at June 2026, with consumer and housing loans making up most of the rest. Government banking, vehicle finance and payroll-deduction (libranza) lending are distinct segments.
Online
- Websites & references
- bancodeoccidente.com.co ↗
portalpublico.bancodeoccidente.com.co ↗ public portal host serving the bank's personal and business web pages
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗
Sources · 13 pages consulted
- portalpublico.bancodeoccidente.com.co/documents/33634/1030668/Certificado+Existencia-ABRIL+(1).pdf/80d7cf25-2047-b7be-ce02-9220
- portalpublico.bancodeoccidente.com.co/documents/d/guest/estructura-organizacional-bdo-2025-2
- portalpublico.bancodeoccidente.com.co/en/quienes-somos
- portalpublico.bancodeoccidente.com.co/en/buscador?delta=20&start=17
- bancodeoccidente.com.co/documents/d/empresas/instrucciones-de-giro-para-recibir-transferencias-bancarias
- bancodeoccidente.com.co/documents/d/guest/informe-periodico-trimestral-2025-2
- grupoaval.com/repositorio/grupoaval/acerca-de-nosotros/quienes-somos/es-propiedad.pdf
- bancodeoccidente.com.co/wps/wcm/connect/banco-de-occidente/ec117ad7-d1c5-4c6b-9443-fadd5b4ef8a2/INFORME-DE-GOBIER
- portafolio.co/negocios/empresas/banco-de-occidente-eleva-su-utilidad-semestral-y-gana-254-651-millones-
- larepublica.co/finanzas/banco-de-occidente-completo-la-absorcion-por-adquisicion-de-fiduciaria-de-occide
- es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/consolidada-aval-fiduciaria-agrupa-negocios-230000083.html
- elpais.com.co/economia/presidente-del-banco-de-occidente-habla-del-futuro-del-valle-y-asegura-que-hay-o
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Aval
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Gerardo José Silva Castro Presidente (President and legal representative)
- Chief financial officer
- Mauricio Maldonado Umaña Vicepresidente Financiero y de Estrategia
- Executive
- Fabian Mauricio Arias Jiménez Vicepresidente de Riesgo y Cobranzas
- Executive
- Juana Beltrán Echeverri Vicepresidente Jurídico
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Colombia
- Financial Superintendence of Colombia (Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia) Prudential supervisorAML supervisorConductSecurities
- Colombia
- Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) Central bankForeign exchange
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Merger / acquisition
The bank completed the absorption of its subsidiary Fiduciaria de Occidente, which was dissolved without liquidation and transferred all assets and liabilities to the bank.
larepublica.co ↗ -
Other
Fiduciaria de Occidente's trust business was transferred to Aval Fiduciaria through a partial spin-off registered on 1 January 2026.
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com ↗
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
- OCCICOBCXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- OCCIBank
- COCountry · Colombia
- BCLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- HEADQUARTERS
- LEI
- 54930072MY36044H8N63
- 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 registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- Colombia · 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
- Direct parent
- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. · Colombia549300BBUKBHWLSUZM17 ↗
The Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. group has 2 institutions in the directory, in 2 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Banco de Bogota S.A.
See the Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- BANCO OCCIDENTE CASA PRINCIPAL CALI TORRE 1 DIR. GENERAL FLOOR 12 CARRERA 4 7-61 CALI 760044 COLOMBIA
- Operational address
- BANCO OCCIDENTE CASA PRINCIPAL CALI TORRE 1 DIR. GENERAL FLOOR 12 CARRERA 4 7-61 CALI 760044 CALI COLOMBIA
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>OCCICOBCXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>54930072MY36044H8N63</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>OCCICOBCXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>54930072MY36044H8N63</LEI>
<Nm>BANCO DE OCCIDENTE S.A.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>CALI</TwnNm>
<Ctry>CO</Ctry>
<AdrLine>BANCO OCCIDENTE CASA PRINCIPAL CALI TORRE 1 DIR. GENERAL FLOOR 12</AdrLine>
<AdrLine>CARRERA 4 7-61 CALI 760044</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
Branches and correspondent banking
All 7 branch BICs connect to the head office. No city, function or registration year splits them into groups. The bank publishes 2 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
2 accounts at other banks, in 2 currencies, as the bank publishes them: bancodeoccidente.com.co ↗
| Currency | Correspondent | BIC | Account | Purpose | Directory check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | CITIBANK N.A. - NEW YORK USA United States | CITIUS33 | 10950229 | receiving international transfers (ABA 021000089) | Matches the Swift directory |
| EUR | Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Alemania Germany | DEUTDEFF | 100-9513342 00 | receiving international transfers | Matches the Swift directory |
This is the bank's customer PDF of instructions for receiving transfers from abroad. The document itself could not be fetched. The rows were taken from the text of the official PDF shown in search results. Only USD and EUR were visible, and the full document may list other currencies. No date is shown. 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.
Branch codes
| BIC | Branch | City | Address | LEI | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCCICOBCADZ | — | San Andres | SAN ANDRES SAN ANDRES COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
| OCCICOBCBAQ | — | Barranquilla | BARRANQUILLA BARRANQUILLA COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
| OCCICOBCBGA | — | Bucaramanga | BUCARAMANGA BUCARAMANGA COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
| OCCICOBCBO2 | — | Bogota | BOGOTA BOGOTA COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
| OCCICOBCCL1 | BRANCH | Cali | CALI CALI COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
| OCCICOBCCTG | — | Cartagena | CARTAGENA CARTAGENA COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
| OCCICOBCMD4 | — | Medellin | MEDELLIN MEDELLIN COLOMBIA | — | 2024-04-27 |
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- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, leadership, regulators and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the institution's own website and reports, regulators, company registers and news. Figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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