Banco Metropolitano modifies opening hours and services

| 13/12/2020 – 18:53 (GMT-4)

The Banco Metropolitano, which only operates in Havana, serves its customers, in corrected hours, from Monday to Saturday, due to monetary unification, and preferably to retirees, since December 11, reports the financial institution itself on their website.

All bank branches operate from Monday to Saturday, from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm, during peak hours, according to the Metropolitan Bank, which has created a preferential customer service from 8:30 am to 11 am of each day for retirees, who this month will charge from the 17th.

For complaints or non-compliance, the bank has enabled several communication channels: Natural persons can go to e-mail [email protected], the legal ones a [email protected] and small and medium-sized private entrepreneurs a [email protected] or, by phone at: 868 35 35 and 866 06 06, Monday to Saturday from opening until 5 pm and domains from 8 am to 5 pm.

This Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in the company of the first Secretary of the Communist Party Raúl Castro, reported during a special broadcast of just six minutes on Cuban Television, on a national channel with the country’s broadcasting system, the process of monetary unification in Cuba, which will begin on January 1, with a single exchange rate of 24 Cuban pesos (CUP) for one dollar.

The beginning of the monetary and exchange rate unification will not imply the immediate disappearance of the convertible peso (CUC), which will maintain its exchange value with respect to CUP and circulate for a plan of 180 days, until June 2021, according to a government decree that will be broadcast at the end of the television comparison .

Next, the space The round table, of Cuban television, has offered daily programs on economic changes decided by the government and will begin to apply from January 1.

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