MEETING TO BE HELD ON MARCH 17
Montevideo will receive ALIDE’s Board of Directors

ALIDE, March 01, 2012. -  On March 17, the CXXIX ALIDE’s Board of Directors Meeting will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay. The members will also attend – in the same city – to a seminar organized by ALIDE and the Banco de la República Oriental de Uruguay (Bank of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay - BROU), and to the Annual Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank Meeting (BID). 

During the meeting, institutional subjects will be addressed, the work program progresses 2012-2013 will be analyzed and the final details of the 42° ALIDE’s Shareholders’ Meeting will be defined. This meeting will focus on the inclusion from the bank of development banking and it will be held in Quito, Ecuador on May 8 and 9.

As was stated before, the Board of Directors members are: ALIDE’s Chairman, Rodrigo Sánchez Mújica, who is also general director of Fideicomisos Instituidos en Relación con la Agricultura (FIRA) -Banco de México (Trustfunds created in Relation to Agriculture – Bank of Mexico); the Vice-chairman Fernando Calloia, who is also Chairman of the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay (BROU); and the directors: Mauro Alem, chairman of the Banco de Inversión y Comercio Exterior (BICE) (Investment and Foreign Trade Bank) of Argentina, Fernando Antún, general manager of the Banco Nacional de Fomento de la Vivienda y la Producción (BNV) (National Bank of Production and Housing Promotion) of Domincan Republic, and Santiago Rojas, chairman of the Banco de Comercio Exterior de Colombia (Bancóldex) (Colombian foreign trade bank).

Rommel Acevedo, ALIDE General Secretary, is also a Board member.

ALIDE and the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay (Bank of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay - BROU) have organized the seminar on development banking for top executives, which will be held at the Palladium Business Hotel of Montevideo within the framework of the Annual Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank Meeting (BID) that will be held in this city.

ALIDE, March 07, 2012. - With the main topic “Measuring performance and evaluating impact”, the seminar will gather a selected group of directors from the Latin-American bank of development, who will be able to know and assess the most recent models that are being applied to measure the institutions competitiveness.

The seminar purpose is to analyze and to exchange criteria and experiences about the practices and approaches to measure the performance of the banks of development. Also, to assess their programs and operations impact with the aim at contributing to the best accountability after the application of public resources and cooperation targeted to fund development. 

Topics will be addressed at Round Tables to foster an interactive session to discuss these matters.