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Central bank of. France. Website. www.banque-france.fr. The Bank of France ( French: Banque de France, the name used by the bank to refer to itself in all English communications) is the French member of the Eurosystem. It was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 as a private-sector corporation with unique public status.
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 -based ...
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 ...
Not to mention Banco di Napoli, whose origins date back to 1539, when the first mount of piety was established in Naples; the bank, absorbed by different entities between 2002-2018; according to some scholars its origin may be dated back to 1463; this would make the Bank of Naples the oldest bank in continuous operation until 2018, world-wide.
Groupe BPCE (for B anque P opulaire C aisse d' E pargne) is a major French banking group formed by the 2009 merger of two major retail banking groups, Groupe Caisse d'Épargne and Groupe Banque Populaire. As of 2021, it was France's fourth largest bank, the seventh largest in Europe, and the nineteenth in the world by total assets. [3]
BRED Banque populaire. BRED (formerly acronym for Banque régionale d'escompte et de dépôts / Regional Discount and Deposit Bank) is one of the cooperative banks part of Groupe Banque Populaire in France. It was founded in 1919 by Louis-Alexandre Dagot in Vincennes.
The franc ( / fræŋk /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr ), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc ( FF ), was a currency of France. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money. It was reintroduced (in ...
CIC (Crédit Industriel et Commercial) The Crédit Industriel et Commercial ( CIC, "Industrial and Commercial Credit Company") is a bank and financial services group in France, founded in 1859. It has been majority owned by Crédit Mutuel, one of the country's top five banking groups, since 1998, and fully owned since 2017.