Saving dollar: the purchase continues to slow down and the banks want the Central to unblock the arm wrestling with ANSES

Annabella quiroga

09/20/2020 - 20:14

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Banks and ANSES maintain an arm wrestling around the paralysis of the sale of dollars to retailers.

After three days of suspended operations, it transpired that financial entities will

so that the monetary authority may instruct ANSES to provide them with a system that allows them to

to buy. Dollars.

Since Wednesday 16 the dollar purchase operations have been stopped in the banks.

And

that this Monday the system is operational.

Faced with the reloaded stocks, the entities have to update their systems to include the 35% surcharge of the Income tax.

But they also have to cross data with ANSES and AFIP to determine whether or not each client is authorized to use the US $ 200 quota.

Among the new restrictions is the

for people who receive the Emergency Family Income (IFE) or some other provision of assistance from the State during the quarantine.

Already last Thursday, as

advanced

the banks came out to warn that they needed ANSES to enable them a form of direct consultation to be able to check the information.

And without that, the operation would continue to slow down.

From ANSES they indicated that

, since the banks are the ones that pay social benefits and have the Uniform Banking Code (CBU) of each client and that with this is enough to establish whether the person is authorized or not to operate in dollars.

This Sunday, spokespersons for financial institutions insisted that to re-enable dollar operations through homebanking they need to have

that allows checking with ANSES.

"The clients are angry with us and the fault is not ours", they slipped from one of the main entities.

They even put together a draft of the communiqué to stop the operation on its own this Monday is still paralyzed.

"Within the framework of the recent regulations issued by the BCRA related to the operation of the Foreign Exchange Market, banks are adapting their systems and, in order to re-enable them, they need to validate the purchase-sale operations or transfers of their clients after checking with

 that shows that the client does not have certain social security benefits ".

As detailed from the banks, now that control can only be done manually, so it becomes unfeasible given the hundreds of thousands of operations that are recorded daily.

That is why they state that "

 to generate this information and send it to the banks of the system. Said base, at the moment is for manual consultation and does not allow online and automatic control by banks. If banks don't have that base, they have

. "

Among the people who, according to the new regulations, will no longer be able to use the quota of US $ 200 per month are those who collect social plans, those who have mortgage or pledge loans whose installments have been frozen and those who have entered the automatic refinancing of the unpaid balances of the Credit cards.

"ANSES is not providing the data to cross the information.

. The banks need the data of all those who received subsidies, allowances and others," said a market source. 

"

" they slipped from another entity, implying that with the market so convulsed, the Government should put cold cloths on and that the resumption of the operation be delayed.

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