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Greek Banks
This is a list of all the banks incorporated in Greece and some defunct banks. Extant banks Central bank *Bank of Greece Systemic Greek banks Greek banks with a significant presence domestically and overseas with large assets under management, listed in alphabetical order. *Alpha Bank * Eurobank *National Bank of Greece *Piraeus Bank They typically make up a large part of the market capitalization of the overall stock market in Greece, making them top constituents of relevant indices like MSCI Greece index and the FTSE/Athex Large Cap. Other banks incorporated in Greece Aegean Baltic Bank*Attica BankCooperative Bank of Central Macedonia () Olympus Cooperative Bank [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BMW Bank
The BMW Bank GmbH is a finance service and a company of the BMW Group. The company known under BMW Group Financial Services was founded in 1971 in Munich, Germany. In 1973, the BMW Leasing GmbH was added – also situated in Munich. The fabricated products are BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Worldwide BMW Group Financial Services are represented in 53 countries with 26 companies and 27 corporations. The range of BMW Group Financial Services includes merchandise funding and financing stockkeeping of automobile and replacement parts for the BMW and MINI retailers as well as purchase funding and financing for automobiles and motorbikes for the customers of the BMW and MINI retailers (Installments and 3-Options-Financing BMW Select). In addition the range also includes the financing of one year-old-used cars as well as the allocation of cash credits. In the area of asset management services the company offers MobilPlan onTop (savings account with car purchase bonus), MobilPlus ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATEbank
The Agricultural Bank of Greece was a commercial bank based in Athens, Greece. The bank was founded in 1929. The bank proclaimed that it would focus on the Balkan bank market, with the business activities of supporting of the agricultural sector. ATEbank held a strong position at Athens Stock Exchange and has become a member of Piraeus Bank in the year 2013. The Bank's development of business activities called for a new name and corporate image as ATEbank. History 1929 / Foundation. Agricultural Bank of Greece is founded as a non-profit organisation, provider of credit to the agricultural sector. The bank mainly aims at implementing programmes for financing both the activities of the primary sector of the economy and the processing and marketing of agricultural products, and enhancing rural development. 1950 Expansion of activities in the agricultural sector. Agricultural Bank founds a number of companies, which produce farming products and exploit resources all over the country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Hellenic Bank
The Arab Hellenic Bank was an internationally owned bank based in Greece. In 1978, in advance of the founding of the bank, the Greek government granted an exemption to its usual prohibition on foreign banks owning more than 40 per cent of the equity of a Greek bank. This permitted several Arab banks to establish Arab-Hellenic Bank with 49 per cent Arab ownership. The bank was founded in 1979, with Vassilis Sarantitis, an influential lawyer and for many years chairman of the Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, as one of the founders. Ownership was 51% National Bank of Greece, 20% Kuwait Investment Office, 20% Libyan Arab Foreign Bank (a Libyan institution), and 9% other Arab investors. As the bank was undercapitalized and the central bank of the country demanded serious capital increase, in 1993 the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank proposed a cash infusion that would take its ownership to 72%, given the other shareholders' reluctance to participate. The plan was to take advantage of the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziraat Bank
Ziraat Bankası is a state-owned bank in Turkey founded in 1863. Offers commercial loan support to companies and tradesmen, as well as personal loans such as consumer loans, vehicle loans and housing loans. History During the first half of the 19th century, with the adoption of western models of trade and finance, foreign banks began their activities in the Ottoman Empire. At that period, there was not enough capital to found a national banking system and no one could mention the existence of national banks as a source of capital. This situation was more harmful to farmers because they made up the majority of the population, and since they did not have any institutional financial structure to which to apply, they had to borrow money from the usurers with high interest rates. Under these conditions, the governor of Niš province of the Ottoman Empire, Midhat Pasha (1822–1884) began to take the first steps to overcome these difficulties in 1863 and achieved the reorganization of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProCredit Holding
The ProCredit Holding is the parent company of a development-oriented group of commercial banks for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which operate in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Ecuador, and Germany. The business model of the group is based on "socially responsible banking". The group’s core business consists of offering banking services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An emphasis is placed on expanding the group’s green loan portfolio and promoting local production, especially in agriculture. In addition to serving SMEs, the ProCredit group also pursues a direct banking strategy for private clients, particularly the growing middle class. ProCredit Holding, which began as Internationale Micro Investitionen AG, was founded in 1998 and is currently managed by Sandrine Massiani, Dr Gabriel Schor, Dr Gian Marco Felice and Christian Dagrosa. The company has a Fitch Rating of BBB. As the group’s superordinated institution, it is regulated by the German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HypoVereinsbank
UniCredit Bank AG, better known under its brand name HypoVereinsbank (HVB), is the fifth-largest of the German financial institutions, ranked according to its total assets, and the fourth-largest bank in Germany according to the number of its employees. Its registered office is in Munich, and it is a member of the Cash Group. Since 2005, UniCredit Bank AG has been a subsidiary of UniCredit S.p.A., an Italian financial service provider headquartered in Milan. When the transfer resolution was entered in the commercial register in 2008, the equities of the minority shareholders were transferred to the principal shareholder, UniCredit S.p.A., as part of a squeeze-out. HVB thus became a wholly owned subsidiary and has not been listed on a stock exchange since that time. Operating in Germany, HVB mainly focuses on private clients business and corporate banking, customer-related capital market activities and private banking (also known as wealth management). As a mixed mortgage bank, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HSBC France
HSBC Continental Europe (formerly HSBC France SA) is a subsidiary of HSBC, headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. History It was formed on 1 November 2005 when HSBC rebranded CCF S.A. (Crédit Commercial de France), together with its subsidiaries UBP, Banque de Picardie and Banque Hervet. HSBC had acquired CCF in 2000; the bank changed its name to HSBC S.A. and then to HSBC France. About half of the former networks of CCF - Union de Banques à Paris, Banque Hervet, Banque de Picardie and Banque de Baecque Beau - now trade as HSBC. This represents a 380 strong network of branches in France with a very strong presence in the Paris region. Other group operations in France include a significant HSBC Private Bank presence, along with a major Corporate Institutional Banking and Markets operation. The Paris trading floor is the Group's second-largest trading floor in Europe. Specific areas of particular expertise and responsibility are the trading of government bonds a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg Commercial Bank
Hamburg Commercial Bank (formerly HSH Nordbank) is a commercial bank in northern Europe with headquarters in Hamburg as well as Kiel, Germany. It is active in corporate and private banking. Considered to be the world’s largest provider of maritime finance, its main focus is on shipping, transportation, real estate and renewable energy. The bank is one of the pioneers in the pan-European project financing of renewable energies and is also involved in the expansion of digital infrastructure''.'' In 2022, the bank won the “World’s Best Bank Transformation” award by Euromoney trade magazine. The Bank changed its name from HSH Nordbank to Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB) on February 4, 2019 after the Bank was sold to new owners in 2018. HCOB has foreign offices in Athens and Singapore and other significant operations in Luxembourg and London. History Early beginnings HSH Nordbank was created as a result of a merger between Hamburgische Landesbank and Landesbank Schleswig-Holst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FCA Bank
FCA Bank S.p.A., a joint venture between FCA Italy and Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance, is a bank dedicated to motorists, which mainly operates in the automotive financing sector and cooperates with the automotive brands Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Fiat, Jeep, Abarth, Maserati, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Lotus and Land Rover, as well as motorhome and caravan manufacturer Hymer. History 1925–1938 On April 25, 1925, SAVA (acronym of Società Anonima Vendita Automobili) was established in Turin, Italy when the "509" model was put on the market. The "509" was the first FIAT model sold on credit. The finance house however also offered financing for the purchases of cars produced by other brands. 1927: S.A.V.A. starts the savings collection with interest-bearing bonds. In the same year, in order to raise the awareness of the newly established company and extend to clients the opportunity of owning a car, two Italian artists of the time Codognato and Romano, conceived S.A.V.A.’s first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EFG International
EFG International is a global private banking group offering private banking and asset management services, headquartered in Zurich. EFG International's group of private banking businesses operates in around 40 locations worldwide, with more than 3,073 employees (as of 31 December 2020). History EFG (European Financial Group) International was formed in 1995 by Jean Pierre Cuoni Lawrence D. Howell, Baron Corso von Habsburg and five others. The genesis of the bank was by the acquisitions of both the right to operate from the Zurich office of Banque de Deposits and the Swiss operations of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Structure EFG International's largest shareholder is EFG Bank European Financial Group, a Swiss bank based in Geneva, holding about 44.8% of its capital. This is in turn a distinct and separate sub-group of European Financial Group EFG (Luxembourg) (“EFG Group”), based in Luxembourg. In addition, BTG Pactual holds 28.9% of EFG International. EFG Bank is EFG In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVB Bank
DVB Bank SE is part of the DZ BANK Group and a specialist in international transportation finance, based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The Bank was listed on the Frankfurt Exchange and today is wholly-owned by DZ BANK. About 330 employees work at the offices in Frankfurt/Main, Amsterdam, London, Curaçao, Singapore and Tokyo. History The institute was founded on 18 May 1923 as ''Deutsche Verkehrs-Kredit-Bank AG'' (German traffic credit-Bank AG; DVKB) by several banks and industrial companies, initially to freight deferrals for the German Reichsbahn. After World War II, DVKB, specialized in cargo deferral, which was fixed by law. 1949 after the unification of the two main locations in Frankfurt and Hamburg, the head office in Frankfurt was established. It also operated numerous branches in other German cities. In 1988, the DVKB was placed on the stock exchange, the German Federal Railways held 75.1 percent stake. In 1991, it was named ''Deutsche Verkehrs-Bank AG (''German traf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
