CorpBanca Announces Second Quarter 2014 Financial Report

SANTIAGO, CHILE--(Marketwired - Aug 12, 2014) - CORPBANCA (NYSE: BCA) (SSE: CORPBANCA), a Chilean financial institution offering a wide variety of corporate and retail financial products and services, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. This report is based on unaudited consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with Chilean generally accepted accounting principles. Solely for the convenience of the reader, U.S. dollar amounts in this report have been translated from Chilean nominal pesos at our internal exchange rate as of June 30, 2014 of Ch$552.81 per U.S. dollar. Industry data contained herein has been obtained from the information provided by the Superintendency of Banks and Financial Institutions ("SBIF").

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