San José, Costa Rica, May 23, 2018 — Nationwide Appraisal Services (NAS) is pleased to announce launch of operations in Costa Rica with Banco de Costa Rica, the country’s second largest bank.After a two-year vetting process through strict requirements from Banco de Costa Rica, NAS won the contract to perform mortgage valuations management for the second largest bank in Costa Rica. NAS is Costa Rica’s first AMC with the capability of functioning entirely in Spanish, and the only AMC possessing trilingual valuation forms with risk analysis.“Banco de Costa Rica is the leader in banking technology in Costa Rica and there could not have been a better time for us at NAS to have entered into a working relationship with them and introduce our services in the Costa Rican market,” says Alberto Gonzalez, Executive Vice President for NAS in Latin America.