After the 3rd meeting of Compliance Officers, I continue to bring to the fore the double morality with which the Banks Act in Colombia and in the Entire World.

It's been two years since I was arbitrarily dispatched of how the Banco Popular (Colombian Bank) closed the accounts of some operators of casino, actors of the gambling industry, just for being this its source of earns ignoring the efforts of these companies to comply with the procedures and the enormous responsibility of its compliance officers.

As a reminder, Banco de Occidente (another Colombian bank), which is part of the AVAL group, was targeted by the DEA in 1991 after an investigation in which it was stated that even the Banco Ganadero (Colombian Bank) today part of the BBVA, along with 8 others, washed the non-negligible figure of 2,200 million dollars per year until the invasion of Panama.

The scandal over the secret accounts of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in tax havens arrived in Colombia, with the accusation that the second Spanish financial institution laundered 300 million dollars in the country and in Panama to take control of Banco Ganadero.

This year a little over 3 months MasterCard, Visa International and American Express Company will have to deliver to the Spanish justice the movements in credit cards and ATM withdrawals of several of those involved in the so-called Lezo case, which includes looting to the Colombian company Triple A, a transnational company in charge of cleaning in Barranquilla.

Banks like the HSBC in February 2008 received a fine of 1,920 million dollars for money laundering from Mexican cartels; In 2008, Hernan Arbizu - one of the star financiers of the JPMorgan Chase operation - appeared before the Federal Justice of Argentina to "self-sue" for fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, for more than 2,800 million.

The back to back is often done with the complicity of the bank. Therefore, the alleged debtor does not pay the loan and the bank takes the guarantee to cover the debt. This mechanism was used by the Bank of Credit and International Trade (BCCI) which starred in one of the most scandalous scandals for money laundering.

And the list goes on, what should not continue is the stigmatization of our industry knowing that from Coljuegos to businessmen going through the casinos we are aligned with international prevention policies, knowing that those who point us have a blemish, because the controls do not they are infallible but applied to form a set that increasingly closes the siege to ill-gotten money.

The banks win, they screw up and we carry the bad reputation?

Let's make it better! It is time for the government to take strong measures against segregation, we need support we are suffocated and it is not enough for us to receive nice words as soon as congress-seminar-forum occurs to them; we are an industry that generates legal trillions and that speaks loudly, I think all this is also our fault: DO NOT GIVE US THE FAIR VALUE OF OUR MONEY ... or maybe we felt guilty?