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In 1999, it merged with Banco Central Hispano, or BCH, which had in turn been formed through the 1991 merger of Banco Central and Banco Hispanoamericano. The combined bank, known as Banco Santander Central Hispano, or BSCH, [9] [10] was designed to be a "merger of equals", in which the top executives of the two pre-existing firms would share ...
There are at least three predecessors to the current bank. The first one was created in 1880, named the Banco Nacional, and its functions included handling the state funds, issuing currency and making loans to the state. In 1894 the Congress closed the bank due to registered excesses in the issuance of currency and bonds.
In 2002, talks began for the purchase of the bank by a group of Venezuelan investors, completing the acquisition of the bank in February 2003 and changing the name in April of the same year to Banco Nacional. of Credit. [2] By 2003, it had 13 agencies. By mid-2007 the number increased significantly to reach 79 agencies nationwide.
The late 18th and early 19th century saw much revolutionary feeling in the countries of Western Europe and their colonies. The feeling built up in Mexico after the occupation of Spain by the French Revolutionary Emperor Napoleon in 1808, and the 1810 Grito de Dolores speech by Mexican Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla against Spanish rule is widely recognized as the beginning of the ...
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica or BNCR is the largest commercial bank in Costa Rica and the second largest in Central America by assets.. It has a 49% stake in Banco de Costa Rica International Limited (BICSA), incorporated with the Republic of Panama entity, and 100% of the shares of BN-Securities (Stock Exchange Market), BN-Vital (Operator owner pension fund), BN-SAFI (Mutual Funds) and BN ...
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte [A] (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean military officer who was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader of the military junta, which in 1974 declared him President of the Republic and thus the dictator of Chile; [4] [5] [6] in 1980, a referendum approved a new constitution confirming him in the office ...
Pérez Companc, for whom Banco Río de la Plata financed a number of acquisitions during President Carlos Menem's privatization drive (for significant stakes in Telecom Argentina, freight rail carrier Ferroexpreso Pampeano, electric distributor Transener, gas distributor TGS, and numerous others) ultimately sold a controlling stake in the bank ...
Bank Merged with / Acquired by Lloyds TSB: Banque Heritage Uruguay [3] [4] ABN AMRO: Banco Santander Uruguay [5] Banco Surinvest: Banque Heritage Uruguay [6] Crédit Uruguay Banco (formerly Banco Acac) Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Uruguay [7] Discount Bank (Latin America) Scotiabank Uruguay [8] Nuevo Banco Comercial: Scotiabank Uruguay