Today, the institution is present in 99% of the districts nationwide, through branches and CajaVecina points. CajasVecina points operate at stores where a technological tool is installed enabling our customers to conduct bank transactions. Before a customer had to travel several kilometers to get to the closest branch, today a person can go to their neighborhood store to do financial transactions. There are currently 2,000 CajaVecina points nationwide and for 2010 we expect to have more than 3,000.
Also in 2008, we reached our goal of 300,000 microentrepreneur customers - a significant group of entrepreneurs - who have strived to give their families a better quality of life.
Finally, a milestone in the history of BancoEstado has been the US$ 500 million capitalization undertaken by the government, which has enabled the bank to give more loans to individuals and more funding to micro, medium and small enterprises.