Cirrus or Plus Logo- what banks besides BOA?

santiBOG says on Dec 9, 2004, 16:56:

It's Davivienda As far as I know, any Colombian ATM will charge a transaction fee. When I withdraw from my BoA account on say, a Servibanca ATM, my statement will show a $2.00 fee for the transaction.

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LaloG says on Dec 9, 2004, 17:27:

Banco de Bogotá We use a Wells Fargo card to withdraw up to $1,000USD a day (buying furniture, and this new eMac) and we have seen no fees charged at all. Either by Banco de Bogotá or Wells Fargo. By chance a few weeks ago, we had to use a Caja Social ATM and the fee turned out to be $8.00 for a $40.000 peso withdrawal. We also found you can open a substantial savings account at Citibank, (we transfered funds to buy a house), but US Citizens are not allowed to have checking accounts. US law apparently. We were also told that Colombian law prohibits any bank form holding more thna $5,000 for US citizens in savings. Hoe Citibank gets around this is unknown, but we had no problems except that citibank charges you fees if you breathe in their direction.

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2retirensa says on Dec 9, 2004, 18:22:

Is there a way to know what the fees will be from the ATM BEFORE you withdraw funds? I hate to see to many $8.00 fees!

When I was in Cali a little over one month ago, one of my future sons-in-law (who has been with a local bank over 30 years) said the law in Co now is a foreigner can only bring in $5,000 per month, with a max of $25,000 year(money laundrying). Another attorney relative said there was no way around it.

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