Any person or entity and, on occasion, associations and organisations of financial service users acting on behalf of a customer or in defence of collective interests.
Queries or enquiries can be made about financial services and bank operations such as:
- Mortgage and personal loans.
- Guarantees and collateral.
- Current and savings accounts.
- Time deposits.
- Payment service instruments (cards, transfers, direct debit payments, etc.).
- Cash services.
- Negotiable instruments (cheques, bills, etc.).
- Probate services.
- How to file or check the status of a complaint with the Banco de España.
- Banknote and coin-related services offered by the Banco de España.
Under no circumstances may enquiries refer to a specific operation involving a particular entity, without prejudice to the possibility of submitting a complaint.
Replies are informative and are not binding for the persons, activities or scenarios envisaged in the enquiry.
- By telephone, calling 900 54 54 54 or 91 338 8830
- Online:
- Through the Banco de España’s Virtual Office (in Spanish), for which you will need to have a valid digital certificate or provide accreditation using @Clave.
- By filling out the contact form.
- In person, through the General Register of the Banco de España in Madrid or the branch offices, between 8:30 and 14:00.
- By post, addressed to:
Banco de España
Departamento de Conducta de Entidades
c/ Alcalá, 48
28014 Madrid
- Your full name or company name, ID card number or tax ID number and, in the case of written enquiries, your address for communication purposes.
- Background information and circumstances.
- Doubts raised by the applicable regulation.
- Any other details or elements that may facilitate the enquiry process.
- The parties’ signature, indicating the place and date (in the case of written enquiries).
The deadline for responding is generally one month after submission of the written enquiry.
A delay in the response does not imply acceptance of the terms expressed by users in the enquiry.