Banco Davivienda (Panamá), S.A.
Number 7 of 39 banks in Panamá by local loans, data to Aug 2026. Every figure is as filed with the Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá, and each traces to a document and its SHA-256 fingerprint.
US$3,077mLocal loans, Aug 2026
4.66%Of the system's local loans: number 7 of 39 banks
+255.2%Change in twelve months, including the book it absorbed from Scotiabank, sucursal Panamá
NoneDeposit insurance in Panamá
Ownership
Who owns it, and what changed.
- Regional group: Davivienda (Banco Davivienda (Colombia)).
Scotiabank 6-K, 1 Dec 2025: Panamá operations transferred to Davivienda · Bank of Nova Scotia, SEC · sha256 756f03e08788
Sister banks in the Register: Davibank (Costa Rica), Banco Davivienda Salvadoreño (El Salvador), Banco Davivienda Honduras (Honduras) - In Panamá: Davivienda, 4.7% of local loans.
- Davivienda (Panamá)'s local loan book goes from US$855m in November to US$2,884m in December 2025.
Sistema Bancario Nacional: saldo de créditos al comercio local por banco, incl. préstamo local total (ene 2017–ago 2026) · Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá · sha256 0e795ed19722 - Scotiabank reports completing the transfer of its Panamá operations to Davivienda.
Scotiabank completes transfer of Colombia, Costa Rica and Panamá banking operations to Davivienda Group (6-K exhibit) · US SEC / Bank of Nova Scotia · sha256 756f03e08788 - SBP authorises the voluntary liquidation of The Bank of Nova Scotia's Panamá branch.
Resolución SBP-BAN-R-2025-00785: voluntary liquidation of The Bank of Nova Scotia, Sucursal Panamá · Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá · sha256 c25e26f4572e - SBP authorises the transfer of the assets and liabilities of The Bank of Nova Scotia's Panamá branch to Davivienda (Panamá) (SBP-BAN-R-2025-00505, cited in the SBP list).
Resolución SBP-BAN-R-2025-00785: voluntary liquidation of The Bank of Nova Scotia, Sucursal Panamá · Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá · sha256 c25e26f4572e
- General licence · foreign
- Colombia
- Dec 1966
- 15
- As listed by the SBP. Capital origin is the regulator's label and can lag a change of owner.
Centro Bancario Internacional: bancos operativos, procedencia de capital, resoluciones (agosto 2026) · Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá · sha256 89c016f270a7
Loans over time
Banco Davivienda (Panamá)'s loan book, Dec 2017 to Aug 2026.
| Date | US$ million |
|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 3,076.8 |
| Dec 2025 | 2,883.6 |
| Dec 2024 | 796.9 |
| Dec 2023 | 591.9 |
| Dec 2022 | 473.2 |
| Dec 2021 | 485.9 |
| Dec 2020 | 468.0 |
| Dec 2019 | – |
| Dec 2018 | 481.5 |
| Dec 2017 | 449.1 |
Local loans (préstamo local), the bank's total local loan book. Year-ends and the latest month, in US dollars (balboas). Dollar figures above: SBP, balboas (= US$).
A dash: no figure for this bank that month, either none filed or a sheet the build leaves out. See the method
Safety net and sources
What stands behind a deposit here.
- No deposit insurance. The IMF's January 2024 assessment asked Panamá to create one, and a lender of last resort.
IMF Executive Board concludes 2023 Financial System Stability Assessment with Panamá (Press Release 24/03) · International Monetary Fund · sha256 21cc623ce089 - Sistema Bancario Nacional: saldo de créditos al comercio local por banco, incl. préstamo local total (ene 2017–ago 2026) · Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá · sha256 0e795ed19722
- Cite as: Acta, The Register, Banco Davivienda (Panamá), S.A., data to Aug 2026. https://www.actaregistro.com/register/panama/banco-davivienda
Right of reply
If something here is wrong, tell us.
Figures are printed as filed with the SBP. If you speak for Banco Davivienda (Panamá) and believe a figure or an ownership line is wrong, write to us and to the supervisor; corrections are made in public.