Financial services companies in Valparaíso, Chile

The RES (datos.gob.cl) + SII nómina lists 9,433 financial services companies (banks, credit, fintech, insurance and brokers) in Valparaíso, of which 9,321 are active. With 8.9% of Chile's section K records, Valparaíso is the 2nd largest of the country's 16 regions for this sector (extraction 2026-08-03). Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 2.9% of Valparaíso's records against 3.2% nationally (location quotient 0.90).

Vina del Mar concentrates 26.5% of the active companies, followed by Santo Domingo (1,628) and Zapallar (938); the three together hold 54.0%. The median active company is 13.6 years old; 5% were registered in the last year and 12% in the last three. In the 12 months to July 2026, 418 new financial services businesses were registered in Valparaíso, +21.5% on the previous 12 months (national section K: +13.0%). By ISIC division, 64 (financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding) is 84.2% of the records and 66 (activities auxiliary to financial service and insurance activities) 15.7%. Size is known for 50% of the active companies; 46% of those are micro and 765 are medium or large.

The operating institutions are a minority of this section: holding companies (ISIC 6420) and investment funds and trusts (6430) make up most of division 64 in Brazil, Chile and Peru. The LATAM Financial Services package removes those two classes; on this page the counts include them. Banks, credit co-operatives, payment institutions, brokers, insurers and asset managers are what payments infrastructure, KYC/AML, core-banking and insurtech vendors come here for.