Collections and debt recovery

Learn about the case before the notice arrives

Past-due loans move through public records: a new case in the Rama Judicial, a reorganization in SICAAC, a lien in RUNT, a cédula cancelled at the Registraduría. Croma watches them against your portfolio and delivers the update, with the source behind it.

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Colombian judicial cases by name

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Full name or registered company name as it was filed, between 3 and 200 characters.

A loan book is defended with what the State publishes every day

A collections team needs to know, for every debtor in the portfolio, whether an enforcement case against them appeared today, whether another creditor already sued, whether they entered reorganization or liquidation in SICAAC, whether the vehicle backing the loan has a lien in favor of another bank in RUNT and traffic tickets in SIMIT, and whether the cédula is still valid at the Registraduría or was cancelled due to death. Each answer changes the strategy: negotiate, sue, join the insolvency proceeding or write off. When the case already exists, the operational part is missing: which court handles it, what the 23-digit radicado is and which email receives the brief.

Croma Legal does that work against the debtor list: it reviews more than a hundred thousand cases a day in the Rama Judicial, TYBA and procedural publications, and detects every new filing within 24 hours. Banco Finandina runs it on its loan book; its Collections Director sums it up this way: the bank has saved hundreds of millions in just months with Croma. The other lookups, insolvency, vehicle collateral, cédula validity, use the same API key and the same structured response.

Workflow

What this team queries, and in what order

  1. 01

    Daily portfolio monitoring

    Rama Judicial by radicado, by name and in batch, TYBA and procedural publications with Croma Legal; SICAAC for insolvencies; the Rama Judicial email directory to notify the court handling each case.

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  2. 02

    Who the debtor is today

    RUES by NIT for the registration status and the current legal representative; Supersociedades for the reported figures; SUNAT by RUC in Peru. The business debtor as the registry sees it, not as it signed the promissory note.

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  3. 03

    Vehicle collateral

    RUNT and SIMIT by plate in Colombia: liens, limitations, SOAT, roadworthiness inspection and traffic tickets. In Peru, SUTRAN, SAT de Lima with its capture orders, Callao and the SOAT at APESEG and SBS.

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  4. 04

    Cédula validity and lists

    Registraduría by cédula: valid or cancelled due to death. Contaduría for the Boletín de Deudores Morosos del Estado, Procuraduría and Contraloría by document. Always with a legitimate purpose and on the identified debtor.

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Outcomes

What changes with the official record in the flow

  • The update arrives, you do not go looking for it

    You load the portfolio and receive each case's new filing the day it is published, with radicado, court and annotation. Nobody queries debtor by debtor again.

  • Insolvency as an early signal

    SICAAC answers by NIT or cédula whether there is an open reorganization or liquidation. Knowing before the insolvency promoter's notice decides whether you join in time or arrive when the creditor ranking has already been settled.

  • Collateral with its real status

    RUNT lists the liens with the creditor's name and the limitations on ownership; SIMIT, the pending traffic tickets and their amount. You know what backs the loan before collecting on it.

Compliance

What the data protection officer is going to ask

A debtor's data is personal data, and Ley 1581 de 2012 requires every lookup to have a legitimate and proportional purpose: collecting a debt is a purpose the institution defines and documents. Croma queries the public record the official source publishes for that cédula, that NIT or that plate, and returns the result with its provenance, or found: false when there is nothing. The purpose, the data subject's authorization where it applies and the legal basis belong to the institution, as with any direct query to the source. The API encrypts in transit, controls access by key and logs every request for audit; in the free tools, the cédula you type is never stored in a URL.

  • Official sources only

    Every answer names the official registry that produced it. Nothing comes from purchased databases or third-party summaries.

  • Results that are never indexed

    In the free tools the query and the result live in your browser, never in a URL. In the API: encryption in transit, access control and audit logging.

  • Personal data, with rules

    Lookups on individuals require a legitimate purpose under each country's law: Ley 1581 in Colombia, LFPDPPP in Mexico, Ley 29733 in Peru, LGPD in Brazil. Croma delivers the record; the purpose and the legal basis are yours.

  • A stable contract

    Every field is documented in the OpenAPI, with a 90-day deprecation policy and Deprecation and Sunset headers before anything is retired.

What our customers say
The bank has saved hundreds of millions in just months with Croma.
Banco Finandina

Juan Pablo Santamaría · Director · Collections · Banco Finandina

Frequently asked questions

With Croma Legal you load the debtor portfolio and the system reviews the Rama Judicial, TYBA and procedural publications every day: more than a hundred thousand cases reviewed a day, with every new filing detected within 24 hours. You receive the update per case, with radicado, court and annotation. There is no debtor-by-debtor querying.

Yes. SICAAC answers by NIT or by cédula whether there is a reorganization or liquidation proceeding and what stage it is at. Checking it as often as the portfolio lets you join within the deadline, instead of finding out when the insolvency promoter has already settled the creditor ranking. If there is no proceeding, the answer is found: false.

The first 12 digits of the radicado are the code of the court handling the case. The emails-by-radicado endpoint returns the mailboxes the official Rama Judicial directory has for that code, first the court's own and then its sections. The directory can also be searched by city, specialty or free text.

The RUNT record brings the registered liens with the creditor's name and the limitations on ownership, plus the SOAT and roadworthiness inspection history. SIMIT lists the pending traffic tickets and fines with the amount due. In Peru, SAT de Lima says whether the plate has a capture order in force and SUTRAN adds up the infractions.

Yes, with a legitimate purpose under Ley 1581 de 2012. The lookup at the Registraduría by cédula indicates whether the document is still valid or was cancelled due to the holder's death. It is the validation before a write-off or a claim against the estate, and the answer arrives with the source and the date of the lookup.

Watch your loan book with the official record

One key covers court monitoring, insolvency, vehicle collateral and cédula validity. Book a demo with your portfolio and we show you the updates on your own debtors.