The Central Bank of Ecuador is empowered to implement and execute monetary, credit, exchange, and financial policies, with the commitment to establish global, moral, and ethical standards that allow the prohibit, prevent, detect, and sanction of all types of acts of bribery; in order to guarantee transparency in public service, as well as trust in collaborators, fully complying with applicable laws and requirements and promoting continuous institutional improvement.

Behaviors that violate the anti-bribery policy must be reported to the anti-bribery compliance function, an entity with authority and independence; they will be subject to the respective administrative disciplinary, civil, and/or criminal sanctions.

Reports made in good faith or based on a reasonable belief will be protected under the confidentiality of information without risk of retaliation.