Ecuador's Superintendency of Banks held Media Day sessions with journalists in Quito and Guayaquil, where Superintendent Roberto Romero von Buchwald presented the current state of the national financial system, including headline indicators alongside key risks and challenges, in a new format for direct engagement with the media. The supervisor described its technical oversight of 425 entities across the public, private and social security segments and reported that the system serves 12,742,324 customers, around 75% of the country’s population. It shared system-wide figures including USD 61.97bn in deposits, USD 56.152bn in gross loan portfolio, deposit coverage of 197.17%, liquidity of 17.69%, delinquency of 3.82% and solvency of 16.16%, and highlighted strengthened consumer-facing services such as access to the Credit Data Registry and support via the Client Ombudsman.