After many years without advances, the subject ‘Digitization of Documents’ starts to be in focus of the debate in Brazilian Financial and Political System. An indication that this theme is getting stronger was the enormous number of people that came to Febraban Seminar of Digitization that took place on May 17th. The seminar received more than 170 participants.
After many years of debate, now, the Projeto de Lei (PL - Law Project) Number 146, about this theme, can be finally approved. The project is in the Federal Senate and gives validity to the actual process of digitization of checks.
The superintendent of Special Projects of Febraban, Jorge Higashino said: “Brazil is one the world leaders in banking automation. It has, for example, 27 million of Internet Banking users. Despite this, the law related to the theme was released in the 60’s. And, since then, the technology has evolved rapidly. It’s important that the legislation follows the evolution of technology”.
According to Higasghino, if Brazil creates the Digitization in a responsible way, the banking system will gain productivity and reduction of costs. So the clients will gain, too.
Marcelo Ebert Ribeiro, superintendent of Banco Real ABN AMRO, said that Febraban is analyzing a general standard for images, which includes formats, ways of capture, transmission and access. “We are ready to propound a single standard for all the Brazilian banking system”.
According to him, there is a debate about the standards of the check adopted in Brazil. Ebert believes that is possible that Brazil changes these standards to make the adoption of digitization easier. He said that Febraban has many Grupos de Trabalho (Working Groups) to evaluate the question and propound the adoption of a standard from one of the following countries: Chile, USA, Italia, Singapore, and Malaysia.
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XVIII Ciab Febraban
Date: June, 11-13
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