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A group of shipowners in Piraeus founded Banque du Pirée (Piraeus Bank; BP) in 1916 to finance trade. The bank started trading on the Athens Exchange in 1918. [15] The Greek government bought the bank in 1975 and transformed it into a universal bank. The new headquarters designed by Sir Basil Spence were built on Stadiou Street in the center ...
Michalis Sallas. Michalis Georgios Sallas ( Greek: Μιχάλης Γεωργίος Σάλλας; born 1950) is a Greek businessman, banker and academic, who has been Chairman of Piraeus Bank (today Greece's largest) from 1991, to 2016. The Piraeus Group is the parent company of a large financial organisation in Greece, with important subsidiary ...
CPB Bank (absorbed into Piraeus Bank) Egnatia Bank (merged with Marfin Bank to form Marfin Egnatia Bank) Emporiki Bank (absorbed into Alpha Bank) Ergasias Bank (absorbed into EFG Eurobank) FBB - First Business Bank (split into "good" and "bad" bank, good bank assets taken over by National Bank of Greece, all former FBB branches closed) General ...
1,000 (2014) Parent. Piraeus Bank. Website. piraeusbank .gr. Geniki Bank, previously known as General Bank of Greece ( Greek: Γενική Τράπεζα της Ελλάδας - General Bank of Greece ), was a Greek financier group that provided banking and financing services. It operated from 1963 until it was acquired by Piraeus Bank in 2014.
It is unknown where Pasion came from nor when he arrived in Athens. It is widely presumed that he originated from Syria and the Levant, c. 440 BC when vast numbers of Syrian slaves were brought to Greece through Phoenician ports, Tyre and Sidon. In Athens, he was owned by the bankers Antisthenes and Archestratus, who had a bank at the Piraeus ...
Piraeus is the fifth most populous municipality in Greece with an official population of 168,151 (in 2021). [ 2 ] The Greater Piraeus, part of the greater Athens urban area, comprises the city proper (municipality of Piraeus) and four other suburban municipalities, having a total population of 448,051 people (in 2021).
Charles Louis William Merlin (1821 – 23 August 1896) was a British banker, diplomat and antiquities trader. He is known for his role in procuring objects, particularly Graeco-Roman antiquities, for the British Museum . Born to a family of French aristocrats settled in London, Merlin joined the British consular service in Piraeus, the port of ...
Based in Athens, the HFSF was founded in July 2010 under Law 3864/2010 as a state-owned private legal entity with the purpose to "contribute to the maintenance of the stability of the Greek banking system, for the sake of public interest". [ 1 ] It began its operation on 30 September 2010 with the appointment of the members of the fund's Board ...