Colombia had 6.078 billion financial operations in Q1 2026, up 14.7%
By Alexander SchekGo-to-market and sales leadership in Latin America
1 min readColombia had 6.078 billion financial operations in the first quarter of 2026, up 14.7% from a year earlier, according to the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia. 84.6% happened outside a branch, a bucket that also holds ATMs and phone banking. The 69.9% for digital means is measured on value.
6.078 billion financial operations in Colombia in the first quarter of 2026, up 14.7% from a year earlier, according to the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia. Of those, 84.6% happened outside a branch.
Outside a branch is not the same as digital. That bucket also holds ATMs and phone banking. The report gives a separate figure for digital means, 69.9%, and that one is measured on value transacted rather than on the number of operations. Two different things that get quoted as one.
I raise it because these are the numbers that end up on a slide when someone is selling infrastructure into Colombia, and the rounder version travels further.
José Borges of Vertiv, quoted in the same piece, says racks handling 25 to 80 kW are now common there, well above traditional configurations.
Sources: Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, operations report for the first quarter of 2026; Tecnogus, Vertiv on digital transactions and data center demand in Colombia, August 23, 2026
Publication: Originally published on my professional LinkedIn on August 27, 2026.