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History. Founded on October 14, 1886, in Buenos Aires as Banco Francés del Río de la Plata (English: French Bank of the River Plate ), it is the oldest private bank in Argentina. Its Beaux-Arts headquarters, designed by Jorge Bunge, were inaugurated in 1926. Morgan Guaranty Trust acquired a 50% share in the bank in 1968, though the New York ...
Banco de la Nación Argentina (BNA; English: Bank of the Argentine Nation) is a large bank in Argentina, and the largest in the country's banking sector. History [ edit ] The Bank of the Argentine Nation was founded on 18 October 1891 by President Carlos Pellegrini , with the purpose of stabilizing the nation's finances following the Panic of ...
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaŋko βilˈβao βiθˈkaʝa aɾxenˈtaɾja] ), better known by its initialism BBVA, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain. It is one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and is present mainly in Spain, Portugal ...
HSBC Bank Argentina S.A. is the principal HSBC operating company in Argentina. It is the seventh-largest bank in the country, it provided a full range of banking and financial products and services, including commercial, consumer and corporate banking, to over 1.2 million customers. In April 2024, HSBC reached an agreement to sell its banking ...
Banco Hipotecario, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU), Montevideo, Uruguay; Banco Industrial de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; Banco Interatlântico, Santiago, Cape Verde; Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica; Banco Internacional de São Tomé e Príncipe, Sao Tome, Central Africa
Banking penetration remains low and banking costs high. The Argentine banking sector is currently dominated by state-owned banks, with the largest being the Banco de la Nación Argentina. In 2005, for the first time since the 2001 collapse, the banking system made a profit, according to a Central Bank report released in February 2006.
Banco Itaú began in 1945 under the name Banco Central de Crédito (Central Bank of Credit) and later changed its name to Banco Federal de Crédito (Federal Bank of Credit). In 1964, Banco Federal Itaú S.A. merged Banco Federal de Crédito and Banco Itaú, a rural bank belonging to a group originated in Itaú de Minas, in Minas Gerais state. [1]
The Headquarters of the Bank of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Casa Central del Banco de la Nación Argentina), more often referred locally as Banco Nación Casa Central, is a monumental bank building next to the Plaza de Mayo, founding site of Buenos Aires and host of major events in the history of the country.