Ripley S. A. is a Chilean

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financial services Financial services are the Service (economics), economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, acco ...

, and

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

s management company. Ripley is headquartered in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, Chile and also has operations in

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and

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. Ripley has 67 stores, with 38 in Chile and 29 in Peru. In the financial sector it operates a bank under the

Banco Ripley Banco Ripley is a bank in Chile. Overview The bank was created in 2003.United Nations, ''Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2005'', 2006, p. 15/ref> It is a subsidiary of Ripley S.A. and is headquartered in Santiago Santia ...

brand and manages credit lines through its Tarjeta Ripley cards. The company manages six shopping malls, three in Chile and four in Peru. Ripley's main competitors are

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and Hites all operating similar shopping and lending ventures in the Chilean market.

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External links

Banco Ripley

Banco Ripley Peru

Ripley Chile

Ripley Perú
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