In the midst of the uncertainty generated by the cataract of measures that the new Government would take, a supposedly unusual reform surprised a client of a private bank, who He filmed the cashier while he informed her that, for depositing 500 peso bills, they would deduct 20% of the transaction.
“What I want to know is: if I give you a million in thousand bills and 500 thousand in 500 bills, do I have any discount?” a Santander Bank client asks a teller in the video that went viral on social networks. . “20% less? So for 500 thousand pesos I would pay 100 thousand discounts,” he completes.
On the other hand, the employee explained that The receipt was not going to include more than the full deposit, that is, 1.5 million, but that “a little less” would reach the deposit account. according to his words.
Tension rises when the woman raises her cell phone and shows that she is filming, while protesting because no Central Bank resolution allows for that discount. There the employees of the place ask her to leave the bank, arguing that cell phones cannot be used in her facilities.
According to an internal communication from the Santander bank that NEWS was able to access, The entity assumes that it was “an involuntary and human error in the information provided by entity personnel regarding commissions.””. “We wish to clarify that individual clients are not subject to any type of commission for depositing low denomination bills; neither do small and medium-sized businesses,” he adds.
Finally, clarifies that only a 5% commission (and not the percentage incorrectly reported in the video) should be charged to large companies, provided that deposits are made with bills of face value less than $500.
