Although BancoEstado was able to unblock part of the conflict it sparked with the FinTech industry by reaching an agreement with Floid, the policies promoted by the state company continue to generate controversy.

The National Corporation of Consumers and Users (Conadecus) got into the controversy and said that it observes with concern the blocking of operations that the bank has made against some technology companies such as Khipu, ETPay and Fintonic.

At the beginning of August, the state-owned firm incorporated software provided by Akamai into its security systems that inhibits bot attacks on the bank without generating a distinction.

In this way, technology companies that perform web scraping…

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