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Banco Sofitasa's headquarters is in San Cristobal, Venezuela. It belongs to the small/medium spectrum of the bank ranking in Venezuela, with a market share of 1%.Sofitasa was founded in San Cristobal, Tachira State on January 15, 1990 by Dr. Juan Galeazzi and a group of Businessmen. This Bank succeeded the previous limited company, SOFITASA, a small financial institution created in the 80s also by Dr. Galeazzi.

Iran-Venezuela Bi-National Bank (Persian: بانک مشترک ایران و ونزوئلا, Bank Mishiterk-e Iran vâ Vânuzuilâ, Spanish: Banco Binacional Irán-Venezuela) is an international financial institution that was founded in 2010 with an aim to develop commercial ties between Iran and Venezuela.It started as a joint venture between two state-owned banks, Banco Industrial de Venezuela and Export Development Bank of Iran with a starting capital of $200 million offered equally by both parties.

Banco Nacional de Crédito (BVC: BNC), commonly abbreviated as BNC, is a Venezuelan commercial bank headquartered in Caracas. It was founded in 1977 in San Antonio del Táchira as Banco Tequendama branch of the Banco Tequendama Colombia.In 2002, a group of Venezuelan investors start purchasing the bank. The following year, the acquisition was completed, and the bank changed its name to Banco Nacional de Crédito.

Banco Occidental de Descuento (Western Discount Bank, BOD) is a Venezuelan bank. With around 6.6% of the Venezuelan market, it was Venezuela's fifth-largest bank in 2009. Western Discount Bank (BOD), as it is known today, came into being in 1957, in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The company has five core business areas: Private Banking, Corporate, Commercial, Oil & Gas, and Agricultural. Its Products include current and savings accounts, time deposits, checks, trusts, and commercial, agricultural, financing, auto financing, mortgage and industrial loans.

Founded on October 15, 1953, in Caracas, Venezuela, as Banco Provincial with a capital of Bs. 15,000,000. In November 1996, Banco Provincial became the first universal bank in Venezuela by expanding its business objectives to include activities of specialized banking. In 1997, Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (now Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) acquired the majority of shares as a strategy of expansion into Latin America.

Mercantil Banco is a financial institution with more than 90 years of banking activity in Venezuela and is a subsidiary of Mercantil Servicios Financieros. On 23 March 1925 a group of 98 Venezuelan businessmen founded the bank with the name of "Banco Neerlando Venezolano" in an economy determined by the agricultural activity being the major component of national income (coffee, cacao and cotton).

Banco de Venezuela (abbreviated: BDV) is an international universal bank based in Caracas. It was the market leader in Venezuela until 2007, when it fell to third place, with an 11.3% market share for deposits; its major competitors are Banesco, Banco Mercantil and BBVA Banco Provincial.The bank was founded in 1883 as Banco Comercial, which on 2 September 1890 changed its name to Banco de Venezuela. It was initially a loan and taxation financial institution for the Venezuelan government.

Banco Bicentenario is a bank based in Caracas. It was created in late 2009 through the merger with the existing state-owned bank Banfoandes, the banks Bolívar, Central and Confederado and after BaNorte Bank, nationalised as a result of the 2009 banking crisis. The new bank holds around 20% of Venezuelan bank deposits.

The Central Bank of Venezuela (Spanish: Banco Central de Venezuela, BCV) is the central bank of Venezuela. It maintains a fixed exchange rate for the Venezuelan bolívar and since 1996 is the governing agent of the Venezuelan Clearing House System (including an automated clearing house).