List of banks in Europe
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 Austria

  • Adria Bank
  • Allianz Investmentbank
  • Alpenbank
  • American Express Bank Ltd
  • Anglo Irish Bank (Austria)
  • Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft (aws)
    Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft
    The Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft is an Austrian federal development and financing bank for the promotion and financing of companies. The bank provides around € 1 billion in development aid, mainly as grants, loans and guarantees to finance projects in the value of almost € 11 billion...

  • Banco do Brasil
    Banco do Brasil
    Banco do Brasil S.A. is the largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets, and the third by market value. The bank, headquartered in Brasília, was founded in 1808 and is the oldest active bank in Brazil — and one of the oldest financial institutions in the world.Banco do Brasil is controlled...

  • Bank Austria Creditanstalt
  • Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg
  • Bank für Ärzte und Freie Berufe
  • Bank Gutmann
  • Bank Sal.Oppenheim jr. & Cie (Österreich)
  • Bank Vontobel Österreich
  • Bank Winter & Co
  • Bankhaus Carl Spängler & Co
  • Bankhaus Krentschker & Co
  • Bankhaus Schelhammer & Schattera
  • BankPrivat
  • BAWAG P.S.K.
    BAWAG P.S.K.
    BAWAG P.S.K. Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft und Österreichische Postsparkasse Aktiengesellschaft is the fourth largest bank in Austria...

  • BKS Bank
  • UniCredit CAIB
  • Capital Bank-GRAWE Gruppe
  • Capital Bank International-GRAWE Group
  • Coface Austria Bank
  • Commerzbank (Schweiz) Private Banking
  • Commerzialbank Mattersburg im Burgenland
  • Constantia Privatbank
  • Deniz Bank
  • Dexia Kommunalkredit Bank
  • direktanlage.at
  • easybank
  • ecetra Central European e-Finance
  • European American Investment Bank
  • Factor-Bank
  • GE Money Bank
  • Generali Bank
  • Intermarket Bank
    Intermarket Bank
    Intermarket Bank is a commercial bank in Zambia. The bank is one of the eighteen licensed commercial banks in the Republic of Zambia.-History:...

  • Kathrein & Co. Privatgeschäftsbank
  • Kommunalkredit Depotbank
  • LGT Bank (Österreich)
  • Meinl Bank
  • Oberbank
  • Österreichische Verkehrskreditbank
  • Privatinvest Bank
  • Schoellerbank
  • Spar - Finanz - Investitions- und Vermittlungs-AG
  • Sparda Bank
  • Vakifbank International
  • Volkskreditbank
  • VTB Bank (Austria)
  • Western Union International Bank
  • Wiener Privatbank Immobilieninvest
  • Raiffeisen Zentralbank
  • Erste Bank
  • Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank
    Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank
    The Hypo Group Alpe Adria is an Austrian banking group with numerous cross-border activities in eight countries of the Alps-Adriatic region...

  • Österreichische Volksbank
  • Bank Burgenland

Major banks

  • Dexia Bank België NV
  • Fortis Bank NV (BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...

    )
  • ING België NV (ING Group
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

    )
  • KBC Bank NV

Minor banks

  • Triodos Bank
    Triodos Bank
    Triodos Bank N.V. is a bank based in the Netherlands with branches in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. It is a pioneer in ethical banking. Triodos Bank finances companies which it thinks add cultural value and benefit both people and the environment...

  • Antwerpse Diamantbank NV
  • Banca Monte Paschi Belgio NV
  • Bank Degroof NV
  • Bank Delen & de Schaetzen NV Bank Delen of Bank de Schaetzen or "DDS Bank NV"
  • Bank J. Van Breda en C° NV
  • Bank van De Post NV
  • Banque Eni NV
  • Banque Transatlantique Belgium NV
  • Byblos Bank Europe
  • CBC Banque NV
  • Citibank Belgium NV
  • Commerzbank Belgium NV
  • Delta Lloyd Bank NV
  • Deutsche Bank NV
  • Ethias Bank NV
  • Euroclear Bank NV
  • Europabank NV
  • Goffin Bank NV
  • Keytrade Bank
    Keytrade Bank
    Keytrade Bank, Belgium’s first online investment site, is a financial services company based in Belgium with a subsidiary in Luxembourg.- History :...

  • Petercam N.V. / S.A
  • Puilaetco Dewaay Private Bankers NV
  • Puilaetco Private Bankers NV
  • Santander Benelux NV
  • SG Private Banking NV
  • Shizuoka Bank (Europe)NV
  • UBS Belgium NV
  • United Taiwan Bank NV
  • van de Put & C° Banque de Titres/Effectenbank S.C.A.
  • Van Lanschot Bankiers België NV


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 Kingdom of Bulgaria

  • Bulgarian National Bank
    Bulgarian National Bank
    The Bulgarian National Bank is the central bank of the Republic of Bulgaria with its headquarters in Sofia. The BNB has been established on 25 January 1879. It is an independent institution responsible for issuing all banknotes and coins in the country, overseeing and regulating the banking sector...

  • Bulbank
    Bulbank
    UniCredit Bulbank is the largest bank of Bulgaria. Before 1994, the bank was known as the Bulgarian Foreign Trade Bank or BFTB. UniCredit Bulbank was formed in 2007 as a merger between Bulbank, Biochim, and Hebros Bank, all of them owned by the UniCredit Group.-History:Bulbank's prototype, the...

  • DSK Bank
    DSK Bank
    DSK Bank is a major Bulgarian bank. It has been owned by the Hungarian OTP Bank since 2003, being transformed into a joint-stock company in 1999, and was founded in 1951 as the country's savings bank....

  • Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank Group is a Greek bank founded in 1916 that went through a period of state ownership and management before it was privatised in December 1991. Since then, it has continuously grown in size and activities...

  • BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...

  • Raiffeisen Bank
  • Allianz
    Allianz
    SE is a global financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core business and focus is insurance. As of 2010, it was the world's 12th-largest financial services group and 23rd-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine.Its Allianz Global Investors...

  • ING Bank
  • First Investment Bank
    First Investment Bank
    First Investment Bank , founded on 8 October 1993, is the seventh largest Bulgarian bank . The bank is the mother bank of a financial group on the Balkans - it has a branch in Albania with 10 offices, one in Cyprus, as well as a subsidiary bank in Macedonia...

  • Central Cooperative Bank
    Central Cooperative Bank
    Central Cooperative Bank , founded on 28 March 1991 is a universal commercial bank, belonging to the financial structure of CCB Group. Together with the remaining companies, the Bank comprises the full array of products and services in the field of financial intermediation, with an emphasis on SME...

  • Bulgarian American Credit Bank
  • Bulgarian Post Bank
  • Economic and Investment Bank
  • HVB Bank Biochim
    HVB Bank Biochim
    HVB Bank Biochim, founded in 1986, was merged into UniCredit Bulbank in 2007....

  • Emporiki Bank
    Emporiki Bank
    The Emporiki Bank is a Greek bank. Its headquarters is in Athens, and the bank has 370 branches across Greece. The bank has most of its subsidiaries in Cyprus.It also has subsidiaries in Albania, Romania and Bulgaria, and a branch in London that also manages a financing subsidiary...

  • ProCredit Bank
    Procredit Bank
    Procredit Bank is a member of the Procredit Group, which owns majority stakes in 19 countries on the continents of The Americas, Africa, and Europe. Procredit Bank is the name of several of the Group's banks in the Eastern European region.-External links:*...

  • International Asset Bank
  • Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece with 450 branches throughout the country. It also has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout the Balkans . Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning...

  • Investbank
  • SG Expressbank
  • United Bulgarian Bank
    United Bulgarian Bank
    United Bulgarian Bank is a Bulgarian bank founded in 1992 through the merger of 22 regional banks, marking the first and most large-scale consolidation in Bulgarian banking...

  • Tokuda Bank

Licensed banks

  • Banco Popolare Croatia
  • Banka Brod
  • Banka Kovanica
  • Banka splitsko-dalmatinska
  • BKS Bank
  • Centar banka
  • Credo banka
  • Croatia banka
  • Erste & Steiermärkische Bank
  • Hrvatska poštanska banka
    Hrvatska poštanska banka
    Hrvatska poštanska banka or HPB is the largest Croatian-owned bank in the country and ranks 7th in Croatia in term of total assets, worth around HRK 15.0 billion....

  • Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank
  • Imex banka
  • Istarska kreditna banka
  • Jadranska banka
  • Karlovačka banka
  • Kreditna banka Zagreb
  • Međimurska banka
  • Nava banka
  • OTP banka Hrvatska
  • Partner banka
  • Podravska banka
  • Primorska banka
    Primorska banka
    Primorska Banka d.d. is a Croatian bank which was established on 25 September 2001 on the foundations of its predecessor, "Primorska štedionica" d.d. Rijeka, which began its work on the World Savings Day, 31 October 1997....

  • Privredna banka Zagreb
    Privredna banka Zagreb
    Privredna banka Zagreb or PBZ is the second largest bank in Croatia , owned by Intesa Sanpaolo group of Italy. It is listed on the Zagreb Stock Exchange and is one of 24 companies included in the CROBEX share index....

  • Raiffeisenbank Austria
  • Samoborska banka
  • Slatinska banka
  • Société Générale-Splitska banka
  • Štedbanka
  • Vaba d.d. banka Varaždin
  • Veneto banka
  • Volksbank
    Volksbank
    Volksbank was founded in 1850 and is a retail bank in Central Europe based in Vienna, Austria. It currently operates in Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.There are also 1,156 independent local...

  • Zagrebačka banka
    Zagrebacka banka
    Zagrebačka banka or ZABA is the largest bank in Croatia, owned by UniCredit group of Italy. It was the first Croatian bank to become fully privatised in 1989 and the first one to be listed at the Zagreb Stock Exchange in 1995...


salik banka

Licensed housing savings banks

  • HPB-Stambena štedionica
  • PBZ stambena štedionica
  • Prva stambena štedionica
  • Raiffeisen stambena štedionica
  • Wüstenrot stambena štedionica

Other licensed institutions with full authorization

  • Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Representative offices of foreign banks

  • BKS Bank AG
  • Commerzbank AG
  • Deutsche Bank AG
  • LHB Internationale Handelsbank AG
  • Union de Banques Arabes et Françaises

 Cyprus

  • Asbank
  • Arab Bank
    Arab Bank
    Arab Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East. Established in Jerusalem in Palestine in 1930 as a small bank, it has evolved into a group with the largest worldwide Arab network with over 500 branches in 30 countries on five continents, participating in financial markets...

  • Bank of Cyprus
    Bank of Cyprus
    Bank of Cyprus is a major Cypriot financial institution. In terms of market capitalisation it is the country's second largest company.As of December 31, 2005, the Group's Total Assets reached C£13,22bn and the Group's Shareholders' Funds were C£818mn . At 30 September 2008, the Group's Total...

  • Turk Bank
  • Universal Bank
    Universal Bank
    Universal Bank is an overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in West Covina, California, with branch offices in Arcadia, California, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, Monterey Park, California, Orange, California, and Rosemead, California, this privately-held community bank...

    (Northern Cyprus)
  • Central Bank of Cyprus
    Central Bank of Cyprus
    The Central Bank of Cyprus , is the central bank of the Republic of Cyprus, located in Nicosia. It was established in 1963. Its current governor is Mr. Athanasios Orphanides...

  • Iktisat Bankasi
  • Limassol Turk Bank
  • Kibris Vakiflar Bankasi
  • Eurobank
  • ViyaBank
  • FBME
  • Yesilada Bank
  • Laiki Bank - Cyprus Popular Bank
  • AkFinans Bank
  • The Cyprus Development Bank
  • Sekerbank
    Şekerbank
    Şekerbank A.Ş was founded in 1953 as the Sugar Beet Cooperative Bank in Eskişehir, Turkey. In 1956 the bank relocated to Ankara and was renamed to Şekerbank. The initial public offering of the bank was carried out in 1997 and in 2004 the Bank relocated its Headquarters again, this time to Istanbul,...

    (Cyprus)
  • Hellenic Bank
    Hellenic Bank
    Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd , is the third largest bank on the island of Cyprus with a 10.47% share of deposits and 7.92% of the loans market. Its shares are listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange....

  • Yakin Dogu Bank
  • JCC Payment Systems
  • Kibris Continental Bank
  • Co-operative Central Bank
  • Kibris Turk Kooperatif Merkez Bankasi
  • Federal Bank of the Middle East
  • Universal Bank
    Universal Bank
    Universal Bank is an overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in West Covina, California, with branch offices in Arcadia, California, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, Monterey Park, California, Orange, California, and Rosemead, California, this privately-held community bank...

  • Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

    (Cyprus)
  • Probanx

Commercial and savings banks

  • Citibank
    Citibank
    Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

  • Česká exportní banka
  • Česká spořitelna
  • Českomoravská stavební spořitelna
  • Českomoravská záruční a rozvojová banka
  • Československá obchodní banka
    Ceskoslovenská obchodní banka
    Československá obchodní banka, a.s. is a commercial bank which operates in Czech Republic. It is one of the largest bank domiciled in the Czech Republic. As a universal bank, it offers a full range of banking services to individuals and companies...

  • GE Money Bank
  • HYPO stavební spořitelna
  • Hypoteční banka
  • IC Banka
  • J&T Banka
  • Komerční Banka
    Komercní banka
    Komerční banka is one of the main banks in the Czech Republic. It serves about 1.5 million customers in more than 350 branches.The bank was founded in 1990 following separation of commercial activities from the former Státní banka československá . In 1992, the bank was partially privatized in...

  • Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
    Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
    Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is a parent company of three commercial bank and the Landesbank for some Federal States of Germany.-History:...

  • MBank
    MBank
    mBank is a Polish direct bank, part of BRE Bank . mBank was launched as a greenfield venture in 2000 and started its operations on November 26, 2000. 10 years later it had acquired 2.5 million customers and had 14 billion PLN deposits and 13.1 billion PLN in loans...

  • Modrá pyramida stavební spořitelna
  • PPF banka
  • Raiffeisenbank, a.s.
  • Raiffeisen stavební spořitelna
  • Stavební spořitelna České spořitelny
  • Unicredit Bank
  • Volksbank CZ
  • Wüstenrot - stavební spořitelna
  • Wüstenrot hypoteční banka

Branch offices of foreign banks

  • ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
    The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
    is the largest bank in Japan, which was established on January 1, 2006, with the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. and UFJ Bank Ltd. The bank serves as the core retail and commercial banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group....

  • Calyon
    Calyon
    Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 58 countries, Crédit Agricole CIB is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking and financing activities...

  • Commerzbank AG
  • Deutsche Bank AG
  • Fortis Bank
  • HSBC Bank (Europe)
    HSBC Bank (Europe)
    HSBC Bank plc is one of the four major clearing banks in the United Kingdom and is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings. The business ranges from the traditional High Street roles of personal finance and commercial banking, to private banking, consumer finance as well as corporate and...

  • ING Group
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

  • Oberbank AG
  • Privatbank AG der Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich
  • Raiffeisenbank im Stiftland eG
  • Všeobecná úverová banka
  • Waldviertler Sparkasse von 1842 AG

 Early Modern France

  • Natixis
    Natixis
    Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire and IXIS ....

  • Banque de Savoie
  • Banque de la Réunion
  • Banque Populaire
  • BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...

     (merger in 2000 between BNP and Paribas)
  • BGFIBank Group
    BGFIBank Group
    BGFIBank Group, whose full name is BGFIBank Group S.A., is a financial services organization headquartered in Gabon. The group has subsidiaries in seven countries including Gabon, Benin, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar and...

  • Caisse d'épargne
    Groupe Caisse d'Epargne
    Groupe Caisse d'Epargne is a French semi-cooperative banking group, founded in 1818, with around 4700 branches in the country. The group is active in retail and private banking, as well as holding a significant stake in the publicly traded investment bank Natixis.-Operations:The group's most...

  • Calyon
    Calyon
    Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 58 countries, Crédit Agricole CIB is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking and financing activities...

  • Crédit Industriel et Commercial
    Crédit Industriel et Commercial
    Crédit Industriel et Commercial is a financial services group in France, founded in 1859 With its parent-company, Crédit Mutuel it is the fourth largest bank in the country...

  • Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole S.A. is the largest retail banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index....

  • Crédit Agricole Indosuez
  • Crédit Lyonnais
    Crédit Lyonnais
    Crédit Lyonnais is a historic French bank. In the early 1990s it was the largest French bank, majority state-owned at that point. Crédit Lyonnais was the subject of poor management during that period which almost led to its bankruptcy in 1993...

     (LCL)
  • Crédit Mutuel
    Crédit Mutuel
    Crédit Mutuel is a major French bank, with headquarters in Strasbourg, Alsace. Its slogan is "La banque à qui parler" . It is currently run by Michel Lucas and Alain Fradin and has 7.4 million customers - roughly half of whom live in the Grand-Est, i.e...

  • HSBC SA
    HSBC (France)
    HSBC France SA is a subsidiary of HSBC, headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.It was formed on 1 November 2005 when HSBC rebranded CCF S.A. , 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...

  • La Poste (France)
    La Poste (France)
    La Poste is the mail service of France, which also operates postal services in the French Overseas Departments of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana, and the territorial collectivities of Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte...

  • Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...


See the exhaustive list of banks operating in France, on the FBF website
or
Banks of France by VB.com

Major commercial banks

  • Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece with 450 branches throughout the country. It also has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout the Balkans . Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning...

  • ATEbank
    ATEbank
    The Agricultural Bank of Greece is 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...

  • Attica Bank
  • Bank of Cyprus
    Bank of Cyprus
    Bank of Cyprus is a major Cypriot financial institution. In terms of market capitalisation it is the country's second largest company.As of December 31, 2005, the Group's Total Assets reached C£13,22bn and the Group's Shareholders' Funds were C£818mn . At 30 September 2008, the Group's Total...

  • Citibank
    Citibank
    Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

  • EFG Eurobank Ergasias
  • Emporiki Bank
    Emporiki Bank
    The Emporiki Bank is a Greek bank. Its headquarters is in Athens, and the bank has 370 branches across Greece. The bank has most of its subsidiaries in Cyprus.It also has subsidiaries in Albania, Romania and Bulgaria, and a branch in London that also manages a financing subsidiary...

  • First Business Bank
  • Geniki Bank
    Geniki Bank
    Geniki Bank is a Greek financier group that provides complete banking and financing services. It was founded in 1937.The bank is traded at the Athens Stock Exchange since 26 January 1963...

  • Hellenic Bank
    Hellenic Bank
    Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd , is the third largest bank on the island of Cyprus with a 10.47% share of deposits and 7.92% of the loans market. Its shares are listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange....

  • HSBC
    HSBC
    HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...

  • Marfin Egnatia Bank
    Marfin Egnatia Bank
    Marfin Egnatia Bank is a Greek bank formed by the consolidation of Marfin Investment Group's Egnatia, Laiki and Marfin Banks. It is a 95%-owned subsidiary of Marfin Popular Bank, also known as Laiki Bank....

  • Millennium Bank
  • National Bank of Greece
    National Bank of Greece
    The National Bank of Greece is the oldest and largest commercial banking group in Greece. The group has a particularly strong presence in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean...

  • Panellinia Bank
  • Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank Group is a Greek bank founded in 1916 that went through a period of state ownership and management before it was privatised in December 1991. Since then, it has continuously grown in size and activities...

  • Probank
  • Proton Bank
    Proton Bank
    Proton Bank was established in 2001 and officially commenced its operations as a specialised investment bank in 2002. The founders of the bank are the late John Markopoulos, Anthony Athanasoglou and Elias Lianos...

  • T Bank
  • TT Hellenic Postbank

Defunct banks

  • Arab Hellenic Bank
    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...

  • Bank of Athens
    Bank of Athens
    The Bank of Athens was a bank in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1893 and merged in 1999. It continued the name of an earlier but no longer operating Anglo-Greek bank that Michel Emmanuel Rodocanachi had established in the UK.-History:...

     (merged with EFG Eurobank Ergasias)
  • Chios Bank (merged with Piraeus Bank)
  • Creta Bank (merged with EFG Eurobank Ergasias)
  • Egnatia Bank (merged into Marfin Egnatia Bank)
  • Ktimatiki Bank
  • Laiki Bank (merged into Marfin Egnatia Bank)
  • Macedonia-Thrace Bank (overtaken by Piraeus Bank)
  • Omega Bank
    Omega Bank
    The Omega Bank was a Greek banking service until it was bought by Proton Bank in October 2006. The bank was named after the last letter of the Greek alphabet .-External links:]]...

     (overtaken by Proton Bank)

 Hungary

  • Általános Értékforgalmi Bank
  • BNP Paribas Bank
  • Budapest Bank
  • CIB Bank
    CIB Bank
    CIB Bank is the second-biggest commercial bank in Hungary, after the January 1, 2008 merger with Inter-Európa Bank. This follows the 2007 merger of their respective Italian parent companies, Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI to form Intesa Sanpaolo....

  • Citibank Hungary (owned by Citicorp)
  • Commerzbank (Budapest)
  • Credigen Bank
  • Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

  • Dresdner Bank
    Dresdner Bank
    Dresdner Bank AG was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was based in Frankfurt. It was acquired by competitor Commerzbank in December 2009.- 19th century :...

  • ELLA Első Lakáshitel Bank
  • Erste Bank
  • Eximbank
  • Hanwha Bank
  • HBW Express
  • MKB Bank
    MKB Bank
    MKB Bank is the third-biggest commercial bank in Hungary, and was the first to be privatised, in 1994. It is controlled by BayernLB.-External links:*...

     (formerly: Magyar Külkereskedelmi Bank)
  • IC Bank
  • ING Bank
  • KDB Bank
  • Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank
    Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank
    K&H Bank or Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank is the third-biggest commercial bank in Hungary, owned by KBC Bank of Belgium.K&H Bank has total assets of EUR 4.7 billion, which leads the corporate banking market, and is the third largest retail bank....

  • Konzumbank
  • Magyar Cetelem Bank
  • Merkantil Bank
  • OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

  • Postabank
  • Raiffeisen Bank
  • Unicredit Bank
  • Volksbank Hungary

Commercial banks

  • ACC Bank
  • Allied Irish Banks
    Allied Irish Banks
    Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. is a major commercial bank based in Ireland.AIB is one of the so called "big four" commercial banks in the state. The bank has one of the largest branch networks in Ireland; only Bank of Ireland fully rivals it. AIB offers a full range of personal and corporate banking...

  • Anglo Irish Bank
    Anglo Irish Bank
    Anglo Irish Bank was a bank based in Ireland with its headquarters in Dublin from 1964 to 2011. It went into wind-down mode after nationalisation in 2009....

  • Bank of Ireland
    Bank of Ireland
    The Bank of Ireland is a commercial bank operation in Ireland, which is one of the 'Big Four' in both parts of the island.Historically the premier banking organisation in Ireland, the Bank occupies a unique position in Irish banking history...

  • First Active
    First Active
    First Active was an Irish bank, and former building society which was merged in to Ulster Bank in late 2009, ceasing trading in February 2010. It traditionally offered a range of mortgages, savings, investment, pension and life assurance products, but from 2007 onwards, also offered credit...

  • Halifax
  • KBC Bank Ireland (formerly IIB Bank)
  • National Irish Bank
    National Irish Bank
    National Irish Bank is a commercial bank in Ireland, one of the traditional Big Four. In December 2004 Danske Bank agreed to purchase National Irish Bank from the National Australia Bank for GB£967m ....

  • Permanent TSB
  • Ulster Bank
    Ulster Bank
    Ulster Bank is a large commercial bank, one of the Big Four in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Ulster Bank Group is subdivided into two separate legal entities, Ulster Bank Limited and Ulster Bank Ireland Limited...


Major banks

  • UniCredit
    UniCredit
    UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with aprox 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries.- Geography :...

  • Intesa Sanpaolo
    Intesa Sanpaolo
    Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group resulting from the merger between Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI based in Turin, Italy. It has clear leadership in the Italian market and a minor but growing international presence focused on Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa Intesa Sanpaolo...

  • Mediobanca
    Mediobanca
    Mediobanca is an Italian investment bank founded in 1946 at the initiative of Raffaele Mattioli and Enrico Cuccia to facilitate the post-World War II reconstruction of Italian industry.Enrico Cuccia led Mediobanca from 1946 to 1982...

  • Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. is the oldest surviving bank in the world. Founded in 1472 by the Magistrate of the city state of Siena, Italy, as a mount of piety, it has been operating ever since. Today it consists of approximately 3,000 branches, 33,000 employees and 4.5 million...

  • UBI Banca
    UBI Banca
    Unione di Banche Italiane S.c.p.A., branded as UBI Banca, is the fifth-largest banking group in Italy by both market capitalisation and number of branches. The firm is primarily a holding company for a number of Italian cooperative banks, although it also controls the publicly-traded online bank...

  • Banco Popolare
    Banco Popolare
    Banco Popolare is an Italian cooperative bank, formed in 2007 from the merger of Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara and Banca Popolare Italiana . In June 2009 the company became the first Italian bank to receive state aid from the Government of Italy due to the ongoing financial crisis. It sold...

  • Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
    Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
    Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA is an Italian banking firm. Founded in 1913 as Istituto di Credito per la Cooperazione, it was nationalized in 1929. It was re-privatized and listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1998, before being acquired by French banking group BNP Paribas in 2006...


Local banks

  • Banco Desio
    Banco Desio
    Banco di Desio e Brianza SpA is an Italian bank with headquarters in Desio . It works basically in the north of Italy but also in other regions like Lazio, Veneto and Tuscany.It offers online services in addition to physical location access....

  • Banco di Sardegna
    Banco di Sardegna
    The Banco di Sardegna S.p.A. is a bank headquartered in Sassari, Italy and operating primarily on the island of Sardinia, with offices also in Lombardy, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Liguria and Latium....

  • Banca Popolare di Milano
    Banca Popolare di Milano
    -History:The second cooperative bank in Italy , it was founded in 1865 in Milan by Luigi Luzzatti, who later served as the nation's Prime Minister...

  • Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna
  • Banca Popolare di Sondrio
  • Banca CR Firenze
  • Banca Carige
  • Banca Generali
  • Credito Emiliano
  • Credito Bergamasco
  • Credito Valtellinese
  • Südtiroler Volksbank

 Luxembourg

  • Advanzia Bank
    Advanzia Bank
    Advanzia Bank S.A. was established in Luxembourg in 2005 subject to CSSF supervision, specializing in euro savings accounts and no-fee credit cards. The bank was established as a result of the former Founding Management of Bankia Bank seeking to establish an EU-based bank...

  • Banque et Caisse d'Épargne de l'État
    Banque et Caisse d'Épargne de l'État
    In Luxemburgish Spuerkeess, in French Banque et Caisse d'Épargne de l'État , is a Luxembourgish bank, established and owned by the Luxembourgish government...

  • Banque de Luxembourg
    Banque de Luxembourg
    Founded in 1920, Banque de Luxembourg is one of the most important financial institutions in Luxembourg. With decisions made locally, it offers its independent wealth management expertise to clients based in Luxembourg and the rest of Europe.- History :...

  • BGL BNP Paribas
    BGL BNP Paribas
    BGL BNP Paribas is a Luxembourg bank founded on 29 September 1919. Since May 2009, the bank has been a member of the BNP Paribas group...

  • Clearstream
    Clearstream
    Clearstream Banking S.A. is the clearing and settlement division of Deutsche Börse, based in Luxembourg and Frankfurt. Clearstream was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing...

     (clearing
    Clearing (finance)
    In banking and finance, clearing denotes all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled. Clearing is necessary because the speed of trades is much faster than the cycle time for completing the underlying transaction....

     chamber)
  • Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
    Dexia
    Dexia N.V./S.A., also referred to as the Dexia Group, is a Belgian-French financial institution active in public finance, providing retail and commercial banking services to individuals and SMEs, asset management, and insurance...

  • ING
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

  • KBL Kredietbank Luxembourg
  • Raiffeisenbank/Banque Raiffeisen

 Republic of Macedonia

  • Alpha Bank Skopje
    Alpha Bank Skopje
    Alpha Bank Skopje is the subsidiary of the Greek bank Alpha Bank, in the Republic of Macedonia.In 1999, Alpha Bank officially agreed on the purchase of a 65 Percent stake in the Macedonian Kreditna Banka...

     (Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece with 450 branches throughout the country. It also has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout the Balkans . Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning...

     group)
  • Komercijalna Banka Skopje
    Komercijalna banka Skopje
    Komercijalna banka Skopje was established in 1955 as Komunalna Banka of the city of Skopje and was specialized for approving housing loans and financing construction operations...

  • Stopanska Banka
    Stopanska Banka
    Stopanska Banka AD is the oldest and currently the largest bank in the Republic of Macedonia by equity and branch network...

     (Member of National Bank of Greece Group)
  • NLB Tutunska banka (Member of Nova Ljubljanska Banka Group)
  • IK Banka
  • Invest Banka
  • ProCredit Bank
    Procredit Bank
    Procredit Bank is a member of the Procredit Group, which owns majority stakes in 19 countries on the continents of The Americas, Africa, and Europe. Procredit Bank is the name of several of the Group's banks in the Eastern European region.-External links:*...

  • UNI Banka
  • Ohridska Banka (Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

     group)
  • Ziraat Banka AD Skopje (Member of Ziraat Bankası)

 Malta

  • APS Bank
  • Akbank Malta
  • Barclays Bank
  • Bawag Malta Bank
  • Central Bank of Malta
    Central Bank of Malta
    The Central Bank of Malta was established on 17 April 1968. In May 2004, when Malta joined the European Union, it became an integral part of the European System of Central Banks. It was responsible for, amongst other things, issuing Maltese lira banknotes and coins, before Malta adopted the euro...

  • Credit Europe Bank Malta
  • Erste Bank
  • Fimbank
    Fimbank
    FIMBank plc is a trade finance bank providing specialised trade finance services to corporates, banks and individuals located worldwide.The Bank provides specialized banking services in international trade finance...

  • Garanti Bank
    Garanti Bank
    Garanti Bank is the second largest-private bank in Turkey with US$90 billion in assets as of December 31, 2010. On November 2nd, 2010 BBVA , Spain's second largest bank, acquired 24.9% stake in Garanti Bank for $5.8 billion. Garanti provides retail, commercial, corporate and private banking...

  • HSBC Malta
  • Izola Bank
  • Bank of Valletta
    Bank of Valletta
    Bank of Valletta is Malta's longest established financial services provider and one of its largest. Domestic operations include a national network of 45 branches, 6 regional business centres, corporate centre, and a wealth management arm...

  • Lombard Bank
    Lombard Bank
    Lombard Bank Malta Plc is one of Malta's major banks, together with Bank of Valletta, HSBC Bank Malta and APS Bank. Today, Marfin Popular Bank of Cyprus is the largest shareholder with an equity stake of about 49%. Over 1,200 shareholders, including investment funds, hold the remaining shares...

  • Sparkasse Bank Malta
  • Volksbank
    Volksbank
    Volksbank was founded in 1850 and is a retail bank in Central Europe based in Vienna, Austria. It currently operates in Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.There are also 1,156 independent local...

  • Banif
    Banco Internacional do Funchal
    Banif Financial Group is a Portuguese international financial services group based around the bank Banco Internacional do Funchal. The company has a presence in Europe, South America, North America, Africa and Asia.-History:...


Commercial banks

  • Atlasmont banka
    AtlasMont Bank
    AtlasMont banka is one of the main commercial banks in Montenegro. The bank began operations in 2002, but it has already obtained the reputation of serious and reliable partner financials...

     (Atlas grupa)
  • Komercijalna banka Budva
    Komercijalna banka Budva
    Komercijalna banka Budva is a bank operating in Montenegro.The bank was established and is owned entirely by Komercijalna banka of Serbia, in March 2003 as the bank's subsidiary in Montenegro....

  • Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank
    Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank
    The Hypo Group Alpe Adria is an Austrian banking group with numerous cross-border activities in eight countries of the Alps-Adriatic region...

  • Crnogorska komercijalna banka
    Montenegrin Commercial Bank
    Crnogorska komercijalna banka or CKB , is a bank in Montenegro. It is owned by Hungarian OTP Bank....

     (OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

     group, 100% takeover by Hungarian OTP Bank for €105 million)
  • Mortgage Bank Podgorica
  • NLB Montenegrobanka
    NLB Montenegrobanka
    NLB Montenegrobanka is a bank in Montenegro. Nova Ljubljanska banka owns 91.5% of stock of the bank. Its headquarters are in Podgorica and has branches in Bijelo Polje, Rožaje, Mojkovac, Nikšić, Cetinje, Budva, Bar, Ulcinj, Tivat, Kotor and Herceg Novi....

     (Nova ljubljanska banka
    Nova Ljubljanska banka
    Nova Ljubljanska banka is the largest bank in Slovenia. It has branches throughout Slovenia, Trieste in neighbouring Italy and subsidiary banks in Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany and other countries in Europe. The head office is in Ljubljana, Slovenia....

     group)
  • Nikšićka banka
  • Pljevaljska banka (Atlas grupa)
  • Podgorička banka
    Podgoricka banka
    Podgorička banka is a bank operating in Montenegro. Founded in 1906 it offers services in corporate and retail banking....

     (Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

     group)
  • Opportunity Bank
    Opportunity Bank
    Erste Bank AD Podgorica , Montenegro, was formally licensed by the Central Bank of Montenegro on 23 April 2002, and became operational on 29 May 2002....


Savings and other banks

  • Achmea Bank Holding N.V.
  • Argenta Spaarbank N.V.
    Argenta (bank)
    Argenta is a bank based in Belgium that also operates in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The Argenta headquarters are in Antwerp.-History:Argenta was established in 1956 by Frans Kuypers, Karel and Cyriel Schryvers and Karel Van Rompuy as a financing company specialising in personal loans. Since...

  • Bank Bercoop
  • Bank Insinger de Beaufort N.V.
  • Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten
    Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten
    The Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten is a Dutch bank and Local Government Funding Agency, specializing in providing financing for publicly owned organizations. Ranked by assets alone, it is ranked as the 4th bank in the Netherlands...

  • Bank Mendes Gans N.V.
  • Bank of New York Mellon
    Bank of New York Mellon
    The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company formed on July 1, 2007 as result of the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation...

  • Bank Ten Cate & Cie. N.V.
  • Binck N.V.
    BinckBank
    BinckBank is an independent Dutch online discount broker, the largest in the country.The broker was founded in the year 2000 by four former employees of the defunct broker IMG Holland. The company was only acting as a broker in the professional market between banks and derivative firms. In October...

  • Effectenbank Stroeve N.V.
  • F. van Lanschot Bankiers N.V.
    Van Lanschot
    Van Lanschot NV is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering private banking and asset management services. Van Lanschot’s services mainly focus on high net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and institutional investors. Van Lanschot is the oldest independent bank in the Netherlands with a...

  • Friesland Bank N.V.
    Friesland Bank
    Friesland Bank is a Dutch retail bank specifically focusing on the northern provinces of the Netherlands: Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and Noord-Holland.- History :...

  • GWK Bank N.V.
  • KAS BANK N.V.
  • KBC Bank N.V. Nederland
  • AlpInvest Partners
    AlpInvest Partners
    AlpInvest Partners is a private equity investment manager and at the end of 2009 globally managed over €42 billion ....

  • Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
  • Petercam Bank N.V.
  • SNS Bank N.V.
  • Staalbankiers N.V.
  • Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers N.V.
  • Triodos Bank
    Triodos Bank
    Triodos Bank N.V. is a bank based in the Netherlands with branches in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. It is a pioneer in ethical banking. Triodos Bank finances companies which it thinks add cultural value and benefit both people and the environment...


Defunct or merged banks

  • ABN
    Algemene Bank Nederland
    Algemene Bank Nederland was a Dutch bank that became one of the main predecessors in ABN AMRO. It was created in 1964 when the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij merged with De Twentsche Bank...

     (Algemene Bank Nederland)
  • AMRO Bank
    AMRO Bank
    AMRO Bank was a major Dutch bank that was created from the merger of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank in 1964. Its name comes from the first two letters of the two originating banks...

     (Amsterdamsche Rotterdamsche Bank)
  • DSB Bank
    DSB Bank
    DSB Bank was a Dutch bank and insurer. The company was founded in 1975 by Dirk Scheringa, a former police officer. It was originally called Buro Frisia, but in 1998 the DSB Groep was founded which included Buro Frisia...

     went bankrupt in 2009
  • Fortis N.V.
    Fortis (finance)
    Fortis N.V./S.A. was a company active in insurance, banking and investment management. In 2007 it was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but after encountering severe problems in the financial crisis of 2008, most of the company was sold in parts, with only insurance activities...

  • Hollandsche Bank-Unie
    Hollandsche Bank-Unie
    Hollandsche Bank-Unie was a second-tier domestic bank in the Netherlands which was absorbed by Deutsche Bank in 2010, but one with a fascinating international history.-Establishment:...

     acquired by Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

  • Hope & Co.
    Hope & Co.
    Hope & Co. is the name of a famous Dutch bank that spanned two and a half centuries. Though the founders were Scotsmen, the bank was located in Amsterdam, and at the close of the 18th century it had offices in London as well.-Early days:...

     became part of MeesPierson under ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

  • Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij
    Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij
    The Netherlands Trading Society was a Dutch trading company established in 1824 by King Willem I of the Netherlands to promote and develop trade, shipping and agriculture...

     became part of ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

  • Nationale Handelsbank
    Nationale Handelsbank
    The Nationale Handelsbank was a Dutch bank that was established to financing trade between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. After operating independently for nearly a hundred years, the parts in Indonesia, were nationalized by the Indonesian government and the remainder was acquired by...

  • ASR Bank and AMEV Bank N.V. merged with Fortis ASR
    Fortis (finance)
    Fortis N.V./S.A. was a company active in insurance, banking and investment management. In 2007 it was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but after encountering severe problems in the financial crisis of 2008, most of the company was sold in parts, with only insurance activities...

  • Postbank N.V.
    Postbank N.V.
    The Postbank was a large Dutch bank, part of the ING Group. It had 7.5 million private account holders and was one of the largest providers of financial services in the country. It provided current and savings accounts, loans, mortgages, insurance, investments and pensions...

     now part of ING Bank N.V.
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

  • Van der Hoop Bankiers
    Van der Hoop Bankiers
    Van der Hoop Bankiers N.V. is a Dutch bank currently in state of bankruptcy and put under supervision of court-ordered curators.The bank was founded by Cornelis van der Hoop in Rotterdam in 1895, with its headquarters moved to Amsterdam some time later....

     went bankrupt in 2005
  • Scheurleer & Zoonen
    Scheurleer & Zoonen
    Scheurleer & Zoonen was a company that was established at Wagenstraat-Spuistraat, the Hague, Netherlands in 1804 by Willem Scheurleer. Willem traded in precious metals and during the course of the 19th century and the Scheurleer & Zoonen Bank grew in size and respectability, eventually having in...

  • Kempen & Co
    Kempen & Co
    Kempen & Co is a Dutch merchant bank providing financial services in asset management, securities broking, and corporate finance. Clients include institutional investors, companies, financial institutions, public institutions, foundations, and high net-worth individuals.- History :Kempen & Co is a...

     merged with Van Lanschot Bankiers
  • CenE Bankiers part of Van Lanschot Bankiers

Commercial banks

  • Bank 1 Oslo
  • Bank2
  • Bank Norwegian
  • DnB NOR
    DnB NOR
    DNB ASA is Norway's largest financial services group with total combined assets of more than NOK 2.0 trillion and a market capitalisation NOK 102 billion as per December the 31st. The Group includes brands such as DNB, Vital, Nordlandsbanken, Cresco, Postbanken, DnB NORD and Carlson...

    • DnB NOR Bank
      DnB NOR
      DNB ASA is Norway's largest financial services group with total combined assets of more than NOK 2.0 trillion and a market capitalisation NOK 102 billion as per December the 31st. The Group includes brands such as DNB, Vital, Nordlandsbanken, Cresco, Postbanken, DnB NORD and Carlson...

    • Nordlandsbanken
      Nordlandsbanken
      Nordlandsbanken is a Norwegian bank serving the County of Nordland. Nordlandsbanken is a wholly owned subsidiary of DnB NOR who bought the bank in 2003. It has total assets of NOK 22 billion and headquarters in Bodø. The bank has 17 branches.-History:...

    • Postbanken
      Postbanken
      Postbanken is a Norwegian bank that is part of the DnB NOR Group. The bank offers its services through the Norwegian post offices.-History:...

  • Fokus Bank
    Fokus Bank
    Fokus Bank is a brand name for Danske Bank's Norwegian operation. Danske Bank has long been one of the largest banks in Scandinavia.Fokus Bank has 41 local branches spread around all of Norway. The main office is in Trondheim and the bank employs approximately 1,000 workers...

     (Subsidiary of Danske Bank
    Danske Bank
    Danske Bank is a Danish bank. The name literally means "Danish Bank" It was founded 5 October 1871 as Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn ....

    )
  • Glitnir
    • Glitnir Bank
      Glitnir (bank)
      Glitnir was an international Icelandic bank. It was created by the state-directed merger of the country's three privately held banks - Alþýðubanki , Verzlunarbanki and Iðnaðarbanki - and one failing publicly held bank - Útvegsbanki - to form Íslandsbanki in 1990...

    • Bolig- og Næringsbanken
      Bolig- og Næringsbanken
      Bolig- og Næringsbanken or BNbank is a Norwegian commercial bank based in Trondheim with a branch office in Oslo. Owned by Glitnir, the bank has 50,000 customers and total assets of NOK 48 billion. The bank has specialized in mortgages, private financing and account saving, and does not offer...

  • Handelsbanken
    Handelsbanken
    Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a Swedish bank.-History of Svenska Handelsbanken:The history of Svenska Handelsbanken goes back to 1871 when a number of prominent companies and individuals in Stockholm's business world founded Stockholms Handelsbank...

     (Subsidiary of Svenska Handelsbanken
    Handelsbanken
    Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a Swedish bank.-History of Svenska Handelsbanken:The history of Svenska Handelsbanken goes back to 1871 when a number of prominent companies and individuals in Stockholm's business world founded Stockholms Handelsbank...

    )
  • Landkreditt Bank
    Landkreditt
    Landkreditt is a Norwegian financial group established in 1915.The group consists of Landkreditt Bank, Landkreditt Forvaltning, Landkreditt Finans, Landkreditt Boligkreditt, Landkreditt Invest and Landkredittgården. Landkreditt Bank opened in 2002 as a self-service internet bank, with focus on both...

  • Netfonds Bank
  • Nordea
    Nordea
    Nordea Bank AB is a Stockholm-based financial services group operating in Northern Europe. The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian banks of Nordbanken, Merita Bank, Unibank and Kreditkassen that took place between 1997 and 2000...

  • Santander Consumer Bank (subsidiary of Banco Santander)
  • SEB Privatbanken (subsidiary of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
    Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
    Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB is a Swedish financial group for corporate customers, institutions and private individuals with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Its activities comprise mainly banking services, but SEB also carries out significant life insurance operations and also owns Eurocard...

    )
  • Skandiabanken
    Skandiabanken
    Skandiabanken is an internet bank based in Sweden , owned by Skandia. It has one branch office in Stockholm and conducts the rest of its business over the internet and via telephone...

     (subsidiary of Skandia
    Skandia
    Skandia is a Swedish insurance company that was started in 1855. It has operations in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. Skandia also operates an internet bank called Skandiabanken....

    )
  • Storebrand Bank
    Storebrand
    Storebrand is a financial services company in Norway. By volume, the company's main activities are related to life insurance and pension savings. However, the company also has major divisions working on investments, banking and, since 2006, P&C insurance products...

  • Verdibanken
  • Voss Veksel- og Landmandsbank
    Voss Veksel- og Landmandsbank
    Voss Veksel- og Landmandsbank or Vekselbanken is a Norwegian commercial bank located in Voss, Hordaland. It is the only remaining independent commercial bank that had not merged into DnB NOR, Nordea, Fokus Bank or a sparebank...


Public banks

  • Kommunal Landspensjonskasse
    Kommunal Landspensjonskasse
    Kommunal Landspensjonskasse Gjensidig Forsikringsselksap or KLP is a mutual insurance company responsible for the management of municipal and county pensions and insurance issues. The company has total assets of NOK 280 billion, with 337 municipal and county authorities, 31 health trusts and 2,300...

     (KLP)
  • Den norske stats Husbank
  • Statens lånekasse for utdanning

Savings banks

  • Cultura Sparebank
    Cultura Sparebank
    Cultura Sparebank, branded as Cultura Bank, is a Norwegian savings bank in the ethical banking movement that uses its assets on ethical investments...

  • Haugesund Sparebank
  • Helgeland Sparebank
  • Rygge-Vaaler Sparebank
  • Terra-Gruppen
    Terra-Gruppen
    Terra-Gruppen, branded as Terra is an alliance between 77 Norwegian savings banks. Terra-Gruppen is a strategic alliance of local Norwegian savings banks, and co-ordinates work within the areas defined as falling within the alliance. The group supplies competitive products and services to banks and...

  • Sparebank 1
    Sparebank 1
    SpareBank 1 is a Norwegian alliance and brand name for savings bank. The alliance is organised through the company SpareBank 1 Gruppen AS that is owned by the participating banks. In total the alliance is Norway's second largest bank with total assets of NOK 625 billion, 352 branches and 6300...

    • Sparebanken Hedmark
      Sparebanken Hedmark
      Sparebanken Hedmark is a Norwegian savings bank based in the county of Hedmark, the company head office is in Hamar. The bank is present in 20 out of 22 municipalities - 27 offices in Hedmark.The bank has some 165,000 customers...

    • Sparebanken Midt-Norge
      Sparebanken Midt-Norge
      Sparebanken Midt-Norge is a Norwegian savings bank based in Trøndelag.Sparebanken Midt-Norge has 71 branches in 51 municipalities in Central Norway and is part of the bank alliance SpareBank 1. In Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag the bank is branded SpareBank 1 Midt-Noge while it is branded...

    • Sparebanken Nord-Norge
      Sparebanken Nord-Norge
      Sparebanken Nord-Norge , branded as SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge is a Norwegian savings bank. The bank has 90 branch offices in Nordland, Tromsø, Finnmark and Svalbard and a head office in Tromsø. It has 250,000 private and 40,000 institutional customers with total assets of NOK 48 billion...

    • Sparebanken Rogaland
      Sparebanken Rogaland
      SpareBank 1 SR-Bank , formerly Sparebanken Rogaland, is the largest savings bank in Norway. The bank has 50 branch offices in 26 municipalities in Rogaland, Agder and Hordaland and a head office in Stavanger. It has 250,000 private and 40,000 institutional customers with total assets of NOK 67...

  • Sparebanken Møre
  • Sparebanken Pluss
  • Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane
    Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane
    Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane is the largest bank in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, with total assets of NOK 32 billion and 310 employees. The Bank has 23 branches in the county and is present in 21 of the county’s 26 municipalities. It also has a branch in Bergen...

  • Sparebanken Sør
    Sparebanken Sør
    Sparebanken Sør is a savings bank based in Arendal, Norway. It mostly covers the area of Agder.-History:From 2007 to 2009, the bank lost 230 million Norwegian krone on investments and loans to IK Start, a Kristiansand-based football club, its operating company Start Toppfotball and the stadium Sør...

  • Sparebanken Vest
    Sparebanken Vest
    Sparebanken Vest is the third largest savings bank in Norway, and the country's second oldest bank. Its predecessor, Bergens Sparebank, was established in 1823. The main offices lie in Bergen, though the bank has branches throughout Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane and Rogaland. Sparebanken Vest was...

  • Sparebanken Øst

Commercial banks

  • Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski SA
    PKO Bank Polski
    Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's largest bank. It provides services to individual and business clients. The core business activity of PKO Bank Polski is retail banking...

  • Bank Handlowy w Warszawie SA (part of Citigroup
    Citigroup
    Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...

    )
  • ING Bank Śląski SA
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

  • Alior Bank SA
  • Allianz Bank SA
  • Polbank EFG
  • Bank BPH SA
    Bank BPH
    Bank BPH Banku Przemysłowo-Handlowego is a Polish financial institution 66% owned by GE Money Bank . On 31 December 2009, Bank BPH merged with GE Money Bank....

  • Bank Zachodni WBK SA
    Bank Zachodni WBK SA
    Bank Zachodni WBK is a Polish bank with headquarters in Wrocław, Poznań and Warsaw, offering financial products and services. The bank is one of the three largest banks in Poland. It was formed by the merger in 2001 of Bank Zachodni SA and Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy SA...

  • Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
  • BRE Bank SA
  • Bank Millennium SA
  • Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA
  • HSBC Bank Polska SA
    HSBC Bank Polska
    HSBC Bank Polska S.A. offers Consumer finance, Corporate banking and Treasury services in Poland. Its headquarters are in Piłsudski Square, Warsaw.-Polski Kredyt Bank S.A. joins the HSBC Group:...

  • Bank Współpracy Europejskiej SA
  • Bank Pocztowy SA
  • Bank Inicjatyw Społeczno - Ekonomicznych SA
  • Bank Rozwoju Budownictwa Mieszkaniowego SA
  • Bank Rozwoju Cukrownictwa SA
  • NORDEA BANK POLSKA SA
    Nordea Bank Polska
    Nordea Bank Polska is a bank in Poland. It is part of Nordea - the largest Scandinavian financial group.Established first as "Bank Komunalny" in 1992, the Nordea Group became a strategic investor in 1999...

  • NOBLE Bank SA (formerly Wschodni Bank Cukrownictwa SA)
  • Euro Bank SA
  • Kredyt Bank SA
  • Bank Ochrony Środowiska SA
    Bank Ochrony Srodowiska
    Bank Ochrony Środowiska is a Polish bank, owned 77.27% by The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, 6.50% by State Forestry and 16.23% by others....

  • Getin Bank SA
  • DaimlerChrysler Bank Polska SA
  • FORTIS BANK POLSKA SA
    Fortis (finance)
    Fortis N.V./S.A. was a company active in insurance, banking and investment management. In 2007 it was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue but after encountering severe problems in the financial crisis of 2008, most of the company was sold in parts, with only insurance activities...

  • Gospodarczy Bank Wielkopolski SA
  • ABN AMRO Bank (Polska) SA
    ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

  • INVEST - BANK SA
  • DOMINET BANK SA
  • GE Money Bank SA
  • DZ BANK Polska SA
    DZ Bank
    DZ Bank AG is an acronym for Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftbank . DZ Bank is the fourth largest bank in Germany by asset size and the central institution for more than 900 co-operative banks and their 12,000 branch offices...

  • Raiffeisen Bank Polska SA
  • Calyon Bank Polska SA
    Calyon
    Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 58 countries, Crédit Agricole CIB is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking and financing activities...

  • Société Générale SA Oddział w Polsce
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

  • BNP Paribas Bank Polska SA
    BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...

  • WestLB Bank Polska SA
    WestLB
    WestLB AG is a European commercial bank based in Düsseldorf in Germany which is partly owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The letters LB in the name stand for Landesbank. The Landesbanken are a group of state owned banks unique to Germany...

  • Deutsche Bank Polska SA
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

  • BPH Bank Hipoteczny SA
  • Deutsche Bank PBC SA
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

  • BANK POLSKIEJ SPÓŁDZIELCZOŚCI SA
  • LUKAS Bank SA
  • GMAC Bank Polska SA
    General Motors Acceptance Corporation
    Ally Financial Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States at Tower 200 of the Renaissance Center. The bank slogan has more than 15 million customers worldwide and provides a range of financial services including auto financing, insurance, mortgage services, and...

  • AIG Bank Polska SA
    American International Group
    American International Group, Inc. or AIG is an American multinational insurance corporation. Its corporate headquarters is located in the American International Building in New York City. The British headquarters office is on Fenchurch Street in London, continental Europe operations are based in...

  • Rabobank Polska SA
    Rabobank
    Rabobank is a financial services provider with offices worldwide. Their main location is in the Netherlands. They are a global leader in Food and Agri financing and in sustainability-oriented banking...

  • Bank Gospodarki Żywnościowej SA
  • Mazowiecki Bank Regionalny SA
  • FCE Bank Polska SA
  • Santander Consumer Bank SA, subsidiary of Banco Santander (formerly PTF Bank SA)
  • Volkswagen Bank Polska SA
  • Fiat Bank Polska SA
  • BRE Bank Hipoteczny SA
  • Toyota Bank Polska SA
  • Śląski Bank Hipoteczny SA
  • Bank DnB NORD Polska SA
    DnB NORD
    DnB NORD is a European bank group in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The bank is own by the Norwegian bank DnB NOR. DnB NORD has more than 3,000 employees, 160 branches, 675,000+ customers and assets totalling €5.1 billion...

  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Polska) SA
    The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
    is the largest bank in Japan, which was established on January 1, 2006, with the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. and UFJ Bank Ltd. The bank serves as the core retail and commercial banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group....

  • Cetelem Bank SA
  • Banque PSA Finance SA Oddział w Polsce
  • Svenska Handelsbanken AB SA Oddział w Polsce
    Handelsbanken
    Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a Swedish bank.-History of Svenska Handelsbanken:The history of Svenska Handelsbanken goes back to 1871 when a number of prominent companies and individuals in Stockholm's business world founded Stockholms Handelsbank...

  • RCI Bank Polska SA
  • Sygma Banque Societe Anonyme (SA) Oddział w Polsce
  • Jyske Bank A/S SA Oddział w Polsce
    Jyske Bank
    Jyske Bank A/S is the third largest Danish bank in terms of market share.The headquarters are located in Silkeborg, and the Bank has offices, branches, or subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.Jyske Bank is number three in Denmark...

  • Dexia Kommunalkredit Bank Polska SA
    Dexia
    Dexia N.V./S.A., also referred to as the Dexia Group, is a Belgian-French financial institution active in public finance, providing retail and commercial banking services to individuals and SMEs, asset management, and insurance...

  • ABN AMRO Bank N.V.SA Oddział w Polsce
    ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

  • Dresdner Bank AG SA Oddział w Polsce
    Dresdner Bank
    Dresdner Bank AG was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was based in Frankfurt. It was acquired by competitor Commerzbank in December 2009.- 19th century :...

  • Nykredit Realkredit A/S SA - Oddział w Polsce
  • Calyon SA Oddział w Polsce
    Calyon
    Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 58 countries, Crédit Agricole CIB is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking and financing activities...

  • EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. SA Oddział w Polsce
    EFG Eurobank-Ergasias
    Eurobank, Eurobank EFG or EFG Eurobank Ergasias is the third largest bank in Greece with more than 300 branches throughout the country and leading market shares in high growth segments. It is part of Spiro Latsis group of companies...

  • BNP PARIBAS SA Oddział w Polsce
    BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...

  • Danske Bank A/S SA Oddział w Polsce
    Danske Bank
    Danske Bank is a Danish bank. The name literally means "Danish Bank" It was founded 5 October 1871 as Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn ....

  • Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SA) - Oddział w Polsce
    Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
    Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB is a Swedish financial group for corporate customers, institutions and private individuals with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Its activities comprise mainly banking services, but SEB also carries out significant life insurance operations and also owns Eurocard...

  • Banco Mais S.A. (SA) Oddział w Polsce

 Portugal

Central Bank:
  • Banco de Portugal
    Banco de Portugal
    The Banco de Portugal is the central bank of the Republic of Portugal. Established by a royal charter of 19 November 1846 to act as a commercial bank and issuing bank, it came about as the result of a merger of the Banco de Lisboa and the Companhia de Confiança Nacional, an investment company...


Major Banks:
  • Millennium bcp
  • Banco Espírito Santo
    Banco Espírito Santo
    Banco Espírito Santo is a private Portuguese bank, based in Lisbon.The Banco Espírito Santo’s origins began with the lottery, currency exchange and securities business carried out by José Maria do Espírito Santo e Silva between 1869 and 1884...

     (BES)
  • Banco Internacional do Funchal
    Banco Internacional do Funchal
    Banif Financial Group is a Portuguese international financial services group based around the bank Banco Internacional do Funchal. The company has a presence in Europe, South America, North America, Africa and Asia.-History:...

     (BANIF)
  • Barclays Bank
  • Banco Português de Investimento
    Banco Português de Investimento
    Banco Português de Investimento is a major privately owned bank in Portugal. The bank's shares are listed in the Euronext Lisbon's PSI-20 stock index. It runs the banking business with companies, institutional and private clients. As Sociedade Portuguesa de Investimentos it was founded in 1981 by...

     (BPI)
  • Caixa Geral de Depósitos
    Caixa Geral de Depósitos
    Caixa Geral de Depósitos is a Portuguese state-owned banking corporation and the largest bank in Portugal.- History :*1876 — Caixa Geral de Depósitos was founded under the aegis of the Junta de Crédito Público....

  • Banco Santander Totta
  • Banco BIC (Portugal)
  • Banco Best
    Banco Best
    Banco Best is a financial institution created in 2001, operating in the areas of Banking, Asset Management and Trading. The shareholder structure of Banco Best S.A...

  • Banco Investimento Global
  • Finibanco
  • Banco Popular
    Banco Popular Español
    Banco Popular Español is the fourth largest banking group in Spain. The group consists of the following companies:*A national bank: Banco Popular Español...

  • Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

  • Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. is a multinational Spanish banking group. It was formed in 1999 from the merger of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Argentaria, both of which in turn had previously amalgamated three important banks in Spain, namely Banco de Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, Banco Exterior de...

     (BBVA)
  • Banco Português de Negócios
    Banco Português de Negócios
    Banco Português de Negócios , or simply BPN, is a Portuguese banking institution. It used to be a private bank, but was nationalized by the Portuguese Government in 2008 after a bad management and malpractice-related debt of 1.800 billion euros and several irregularities uncovered in the...

     (BPN)
  • Banco Invest
  • Banco Privado Português (BPP)
  • Montepio Geral
    Montepio Geral
    Montepio Geral - Associação Mutualista, is the head of a group of the Social Economy: Montepio Group. The group of companies that constitutes aims to assist the achievement of the purposes of the Mutual Benefit Association, through results that support the income of the methods endorsed by...

  • Crédito Agrícola
  • Banif Mais
  • Caixa Galicia
    Caixa Galicia
    Caixa Galicia was the trading name of Caja de Ahorros de Galicia, a Spanish savings bank based in A Coruña, Galicia.On 29 November 2010, following the financial crisis of 2007-2010, they signed a merger deal with Caixanova to create a new regional savings bank, Novacaixagalicia.-External links:*...

  • Caja Duero
  • Activo Bank 7
  • Banco Efisa
  • Banco Português de Gestão
  • Banco Finantia
  • Banco Primus

Major banks

  • Banca Comercială Română
    Banca Comerciala Româna
    Banca Comercială Română , a member of Erste Group, is a universal bank serving both retail and corporate clients. BCR is the most important financial services provider in Romania, managing assets worth over EUR 16 billion. BCR is the most valuable Romanian financial brand...

     (BCR) - Erste Bank Group
  • Banca Română pentru Dezvoltare  (BRD) - Société Générale Group
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

  • Banc Post - EFG Eurobank
  • Banca Transilvania
    Banca Transilvania
    Banca Transilvania , a bank corporation in Romania, was founded December 1993 in Cluj-Napoca by several local businessmen, with an initial capitalization of 2 billion Romanian lei ; initial capitalization was 79% Romanian and 21% foreign.The bank first opened for business February 16, 1994, with...

  • Banca Romaneasca
    Banca Româneasca
    Banca Românească is a Romanian bank based in Bucharest and a member of National Bank of Greece Group....

     - National Bank of Greece Group
    National Bank of Greece
    The National Bank of Greece is the oldest and largest commercial banking group in Greece. The group has a particularly strong presence in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean...

  • ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO
    ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

     Romania
  • Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece with 450 branches throughout the country. It also has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout the Balkans . Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning...

     Romania
  • ATE Bank
    ATEbank
    The Agricultural Bank of Greece is 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...

     Romania
  • Banca CR Firenze Romania
  • Bank Leumi
    Bank Leumi
    Bank Leumi is an Israeli bank. It was founded in London as the Anglo Palestine Company on February 27, 1902, by members of the Zionist movement to promote the industry, construction, agriculture, and infrastructure of Palestine.-History:...

     Romania
  • Citibank
    Citibank
    Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

     Romania
  • Credit Europe Bank Romania - Fiba Group
  • Egnatia Bank Romania
  • Emporiki Bank
    Emporiki Bank
    The Emporiki Bank is a Greek bank. Its headquarters is in Athens, and the bank has 370 branches across Greece. The bank has most of its subsidiaries in Cyprus.It also has subsidiaries in Albania, Romania and Bulgaria, and a branch in London that also manages a financing subsidiary...

     Romania
  • Exim Bank
  • Fortis Bank Romania
  • Garanti Bank
    Garanti Bank
    Garanti Bank is the second largest-private bank in Turkey with US$90 billion in assets as of December 31, 2010. On November 2nd, 2010 BBVA , Spain's second largest bank, acquired 24.9% stake in Garanti Bank for $5.8 billion. Garanti provides retail, commercial, corporate and private banking...

     Romania
  • Unicredit Tiriac Bank
    UniCredit Tiriac Bank
    UniCredit Ţiriac Bank is the result of several mergers and acquisitions on the Romanian banking market, starting with the creation in 1997 of a Demirbank subsidiary in Bucharest...

     - Unicredit Group
    UniCredit
    UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with aprox 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries.- Geography :...

  • ING Bank Romania
  • Libra Bank
    Libra Bank
    Libra Bank was founded in 1996 as Banca Română pentru Relansare Economică and it is based in Bucharest.Libra Bank is a member of New Century Holdings ....

  • Millennium Bank
    Banco Comercial Português
    Banco Comercial Português , is a Portuguese bank that was founded in 1985 and is the largest private bank in the country. BCP is a member of the Euronext 100 stock index and its current chief executive officer is Carlos Santos Ferreira. BCP is based in Porto, but its operations are headquartered...

     Romania
  • MKB Romexterra Bank
    MKB Romexterra Bank
    MKB Romexterra Bank is a Romanian bank based in Bucharest and a member of BayernLB Group....

     - BayernLB
    BayernLB
    BayernLB or Bayerische Landesbank is a publicly regulated bank based in Munich, Germany and one of the eight Landesbanken. It is 94% owned by the free state of Bavaria and 6% owned by the Sparkassenverband Bayern, the umbrella organization of Bavarian Sparkassen...

     Group
  • Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank Group is a Greek bank founded in 1916 that went through a period of state ownership and management before it was privatised in December 1991. Since then, it has continuously grown in size and activities...

     Romania
  • Porsche Bank Romania
  • ProCredit Bank
    Procredit Bank
    Procredit Bank is a member of the Procredit Group, which owns majority stakes in 19 countries on the continents of The Americas, Africa, and Europe. Procredit Bank is the name of several of the Group's banks in the Eastern European region.-External links:*...

     Romania
  • Raiffeisen Bank Romania
  • OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

     Romania
  • Sanpaolo IMI Bank
    Sanpaolo IMI
    The Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI was one of Italy's major banking and insurance groups, based in Turin. It employed about 44,000 people and had about 7 million customers....

     Romania
  • Volksbank
    Volksbank
    Volksbank was founded in 1850 and is a retail bank in Central Europe based in Vienna, Austria. It currently operates in Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.There are also 1,156 independent local...

     Romania
  • Casa de Economii şi Consemnaţiuni (CEC)
  • Romanian International Bank (RIB)
  • Banca Carpatica
  • Banca Italo-Romena - Veneto Banca Group
  • Banca di Roma
  • Blom Bank Egypt
  • Anglo-Romanian Bank
  • Caja de Ahorros Y Pensiones de Barcelona
    La Caixa
    La Caixa , formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona , is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million...

  • Bank of Cyprus
    Bank of Cyprus
    Bank of Cyprus is a major Cypriot financial institution. In terms of market capitalisation it is the country's second largest company.As of December 31, 2005, the Group's Total Assets reached C£13,22bn and the Group's Shareholders' Funds were C£818mn . At 30 September 2008, the Group's Total...


 Russia

  • Alfa-Bank
  • Sberbank
    Sberbank
    Sberbank Rossii is the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe. The company's headquarters are in Moscow and its history goes back to Cancrin's financial reform of 1841...

  • MDM Bank
    MDM Bank
    MDM Bank is a Russian Joint Stock commercial bank, one of Russia's largest private banks based in Novosibirsk. As of August 2009, the bank completed a merger with Novosibirsk-based URSA Bank. The new bank will operate under MDM Bank brand name as an Open Joint Stock Company, but the merger is...

  • Vneshtorgbank
    Vneshtorgbank
    Bank VTB , former Vneshtorgbank, is one of the leading universal banks of Russia and the largest in terms of authorized capital....

  • Hansabank
    Hansabank
    Hansabank was a bank operating in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania owned by the FöreningsSparbanken/Swedbank, a Swedish bank. Following a decision taken by the Swedbank group on 15 September 2008, the Hansabank name was discontinued in 2009 with all operations rebranded under the Swedbank...


Commercial banks

  • Raiffeisenbank Beograd
    Raiffeisenbank Beograd
    Raiffeisenbank Beograd is the Serbian arm of Austria-based Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG , member of Raiffeisen Banking Group....

  • Banca Intesa Beograd
    Banca Intesa Beograd
    Banca Intesa Beograd is a bank operating in Serbia, majority owned by Italian Intesa Sanpaolo and other 7% by International Financial Corporation, World Bank....

     (Intesa Sanpaolo
    Intesa Sanpaolo
    Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group resulting from the merger between Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI based in Turin, Italy. It has clear leadership in the Italian market and a minor but growing international presence focused on Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa Intesa Sanpaolo...

     group)
  • Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank
    Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank
    The Hypo Group Alpe Adria is an Austrian banking group with numerous cross-border activities in eight countries of the Alps-Adriatic region...

  • Komercijalna banka
    Komercijalna banka
    Komercijalna banka is a bank founded in 1970 in Belgrade, Serbia.It has a network of 251 branches all over Serbia. It is also the founder and 100% stake owner of Komercijalna banka Budva operating in Montenegro...

  • Eurobank EFG
  • HVB banka
    UniCredit
    UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with aprox 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries.- Geography :...

     (UniCredit
    UniCredit
    UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with aprox 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries.- Geography :...

     group)
  • Société Générale Yugoslav Bank
    Société Générale Yugoslav Bank
    Société Générale Srbija is a 100% owned subsidiary of the French based Société Générale bank....

     (Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

     group)
  • ProCredit Bank
    Procredit Bank
    Procredit Bank is a member of the Procredit Group, which owns majority stakes in 19 countries on the continents of The Americas, Africa, and Europe. Procredit Bank is the name of several of the Group's banks in the Eastern European region.-External links:*...

  • Vojvođanska banka
  • Volksbank Beograd
    Volksbank Beograd
    Volksbank Beograd is the Serbian subsidiary of Austrian Österreichishe Volksbanken-AG .The bank arrived on the Serbian market in September 2003 by registering a subsidiary with a following ownership structure:...

  • AIK banka Niš (ATEbank
    ATEbank
    The Agricultural Bank of Greece is 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...

     group)
  • Alpha Bank Beograd
    Alpha Bank Beograd
    Alpha Bank Beograd is the Serbian subsidiary of the Greek bank, Alpha Bank.On January 26, 2005 Alpha Bank officially agreed the purchase of a 88.64% stake in Serbian Jubanka...

     (Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank
    Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece with 450 branches throughout the country. It also has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout the Balkans . Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning...

     group)
  • Erste Bank Novi Sad
    Erste Bank Novi Sad
    Erste Bank a.d. Novi Sad is a bank operating in Serbia. Bank's headquarters are located in the second largest city in Serbia - Novi Sad.The bank was founded in 1864 as Novosadska banka. In August 2005 Austrian Erste Bank took over the bank's majority share from the Serbian government for €73.2...

     (Erste Bank group)
  • PB Agrobanka
  • National Bank of Greece
    National Bank of Greece
    The National Bank of Greece is the oldest and largest commercial banking group in Greece. The group has a particularly strong presence in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean...

  • Crédit Agricole banka Srbija (Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole S.A. is the largest retail banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index....

     group)
  • Piraeus Bank Beograd (Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank
    Piraeus Bank Group is a Greek bank founded in 1916 that went through a period of state ownership and management before it was privatised in December 1991. Since then, it has continuously grown in size and activities...

     group)
  • Kulska banka (OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

     group, Hungarian OTP Bank is the majority stakeholder with 67%, bought for €118.6 million in July '06)
  • Banka Poštanska štedionica
  • Panonska banka
  • NLB banka (Nova ljubljanska banka
    Nova Ljubljanska banka
    Nova Ljubljanska banka is the largest bank in Slovenia. It has branches throughout Slovenia, Trieste in neighbouring Italy and subsidiary banks in Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany and other countries in Europe. The head office is in Ljubljana, Slovenia....

     group)
  • Marfin Bank (Marfin Bank group)
  • Univerzal banka
  • Metals-banka
    Metals-banka
    Metals-banka is a Serbian bank, established in 1990 with its headquarters located in Novi Sad.Metals-banka runs various operations, including: deposit, payment, loans, foreign exchange , cash transfers in accordance with the federal law and other financial services.The bank's market presence was...

  • Privredna banka Beograd
  • Srpska banka
  • Čačanska banka
  • Credy banka
    Credy banka
    Credy banka is a Serbian bank based in Kragujevac.It continues the long history of banking in Kragujevac and Šumadija region.As of December 2006 it is majority owned by the Government of Serbia ....

  • Jugobanka Jugbanka
  • Findomestic Banka Beograd (majority takeover of Nova banka with 97% stake)
  • Credy banka
    Credy banka
    Credy banka is a Serbian bank based in Kragujevac.It continues the long history of banking in Kragujevac and Šumadija region.As of December 2006 it is majority owned by the Government of Serbia ....

  • Privredna banka
  • A banka
  • JUBMES banka
    JUBMES banka
    JUBMES banka is a Serbian bank, established in 1979.It is a mixed capital bank with around 200 stakeholders - mostly companies and other banks, as well as some private individuals who altogether own 3.78% stake...

  • Niška banka (OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

     group, Hungarian OTP Bank is the majority stakeholder 83.39%)
  • Opportunity banka
  • Kosovsko metohijska banka

Commercial banks

  • Československá obchodná banka
    Ceskoslovenská obchodní banka
    Československá obchodní banka, a.s. is a commercial bank which operates in Czech Republic. It is one of the largest bank domiciled in the Czech Republic. As a universal bank, it offers a full range of banking services to individuals and companies...

     - KBC Bank
    KBC Bank
    KBC Bank N.V. is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises. Besides retail banking, insurance and asset management activities , KBC is active in European debt capital markets, domestic cash equity markets and in the field of corporate...

     group
  • ČSOB Stavebná sporiteľňa
  • Dexia banka Slovensko - Dexia
    Dexia
    Dexia N.V./S.A., also referred to as the Dexia Group, is a Belgian-French financial institution active in public finance, providing retail and commercial banking services to individuals and SMEs, asset management, and insurance...

     group
  • Komerční banka Bratislava
    Komercní banka Bratislava
    Komerční banka Bratislava is a commercial bank operates in Slovakia. Its wholly owned subsidiary of Czech Komerční banka, a member of the Group Société Générale.-History:...

     - Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

     group
  • OTP Banka Slovensko - OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

     group
  • Poštová banka
    Poštová banka
    Poštová banka is a universal commercial bank operates in Slovakia. Established on December 31, 1992. The position of Poštová banka on the banking market is supported by the cooperation with Slovenská pošta...

  • Privatbanka
  • Prvá stavebná sporiteľňa
  • Slovenská sporiteľňa
    Slovenská sporitelna
    Slovenská sporiteľňa is the largest commercial bank in Slovakia. It provides comprehensive banking services to more than 2 million clients via the largest distribution network with 400 retail outlets...

     - Erste Bank group
  • Slovenská záručná a rozvojová banka
    Slovenská zárucná a rozvojová banka
    Slovenská záručná a rozvojová banka is a specialised banking institution in Slovakia founded by the central body of state administration – the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic. The bank has become the first bank in Eastern Europe to focus on the support of small and medium-sized...

  • Tatra banka
    Tatra banka
    Tatra banka is a commercial bank in Slovakia. It was founded in 1990 as the first private bank in Slovakia. It took the name of the former bank, established in 1885, but not its assets. It started financial operations in December 1991....

     - Raiffeisen Zentralbank group
  • UniCredit Bank - UniCredit
    UniCredit
    UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with aprox 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries.- Geography :...

     group
  • Volksbank Slovensko - Volksbank group
  • Všeobecná úverová banka - Banca Intesa
    Banca Intesa
    Banca Intesa S.p.A. was formed in 1998 from the merger of Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde and Banco Ambroveneto...

     group
  • Wüstenrot stavebná sporiteľňa

Branch offices of foreign banks

  • ABN AMRO Bank N.V. - Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Banco Mais SA
  • BRE Bank SA - Commerzbank
    Commerzbank
    Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany, after Deutsche Bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.-Activities:Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial bank, retail banking and mortgaging. It suffered reversals in investment banking in early 2000s and scaled back its Securities unit...

     group
  • Calyon
    Calyon
    Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 58 countries, Crédit Agricole CIB is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking and financing activities...

     - Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole S.A. is the largest retail banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index....

     group
  • Citibank Europe plc - Citigroup
    Citigroup
    Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...

  • Commerzbank AG - Commerzbank
    Commerzbank
    Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany, after Deutsche Bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.-Activities:Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial bank, retail banking and mortgaging. It suffered reversals in investment banking in early 2000s and scaled back its Securities unit...

     group
  • HSBC Bank plc - HSBC Holdings plc group
  • ING Bank N.V.
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

     - ING Group
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

  • J&T Banka
  • Oberbank AG

Representative Offices of Foreign Credit Institutions in Slovakia

  • Banque Privee Edmond De Rothschild Europe
  • BKS Bank AG
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    Founded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their...

  • Prvá česko-ruská banka

Major banks

  • Fiare Banca Ètica página web de Fiare
  • Banca March
    Banca March
    Banca March is a Spanish bank headquartered in Palma de Mallorca.The bank was founded in Palma de Mallorca by Juan March Ordinas in 1926. In the beginning, its sphere of influence was limited to Majorca but it eventually grew to be the leading independent bank in the Balearic Islands...

  • Bancaja
  • Banco Atlántico
    Banco Atlántico
    In 2003 Banco Atlántico became part of the Banco Sabadell Group.-History:*1901: Shortly after Cuba achieved its independence from Spain, José and Francisco Nonell y Feliu, who had been running a Cambio in Cuba since 1885, moved their business to Barcelona...

  • Banco Esfinge
  • Banco Fimestic
  • Banco Guipuzcuano
  • Banco Herrero
  • Banco Urquijo
  • Bankoa
  • Evolvebank
  • ING Direct
  • Patagon España
  • UNO-e
  • BBVA
    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. is a multinational Spanish banking group. It was formed in 1999 from the merger of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Argentaria, both of which in turn had previously amalgamated three important banks in Spain, namely Banco de Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, Banco Exterior de...

  • Banco Pastor
    Banco Pastor
    Banco Pastor, S.A. is a Spanish bank. It is the second oldest banking institution in the country, after Banco Etcheverría.Founded in 1776 by Jaime Dalmau Batista as Jaime Dalmau y Cía , who had a shipping company operating between the port of A Coruña and several American ports...

  • Banco Popular Español
    Banco Popular Español
    Banco Popular Español is the fourth largest banking group in Spain. The group consists of the following companies:*A national bank: Banco Popular Español...

  • Banco Sabadell
    Banco Sabadell
    Banco Sabadell, S.A. is a major bank headquartered in Sabadell. Together with Banco de Asturias, Banco Urquijo, Sabadell Banca Privada, Banco Herrero, Solbank and ActivoBank, it is part of the Banco Sabadell Group, which is the fifth largest commercial banking group in Spain after Banco Santander,...

  • Banco Santander
  • Banco Zaragozano
  • Banesto
    Banesto
    Banesto is a Spanish bank, 88.4% owned by Banco Santander. Currently Banesto is the fifth-largest banking group in Spain, operating around 1,770 branches....

  • Bankinter
    Bankinter
    Bankinter, S.A., is a Spanish commercial bank. Bankinter is currently the sixth-largest listed banking group in Spain. The biggest individual shareholder in the company is Crédit Agricole, which acquired around 20% in late 2007...

  • Triodos Bank
    Triodos Bank
    Triodos Bank N.V. is a bank based in the Netherlands with branches in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. It is a pioneer in ethical banking. Triodos Bank finances companies which it thinks add cultural value and benefit both people and the environment...

  • Fibanc
  • Openbank
    Openbank
    Openbank is an online bank of Banco Santander, operating in Spain.In January 2010, Brand Republic reported that Santander were inviting bids from advertising agencies for a plan to merge all its online banking services across Europe which do not carry the Santander name, including Openbank, under...

  • Fibane
  • E-Cortal
  • Banco Espíritu Santo
  • Banco Inversión
  • Bankpyme
  • Barclays Bank
  • BCH Broker
  • Citibank
    Citibank
    Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

  • Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

  • Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...

  • Ibercaja
  • Salomon Smith Barney
  • Schroders
    Schroders
    Schroders plc is a British multinational asset management company with over 200 years of experience in the world's financial markets. The company employs 2,905 people worldwide who are operating from 32 offices in 25 different countries around Europe, America, Asia and the Middle East...

  • Global Trust Bank
    Global Trust Bank
    Global Trust Bank is a commercial bank in Uganda which started operations in 2008. Its headquarters are located in a five-storey building on Kampala Road in the center of Uganda’s capital, Kampala.-Ownership:...


Cajas (savings banks)

  • Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa
    Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa
    Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa is a Spanish savings bank based in the province of Biscay in the Basque Country, Spain. It was formed in 1990 when the Caja de Ahorros Municipal de Bilbao and the Bizkaiko Aurrezki Kutxa-Caja de Ahorros Vizcaína were merged...

     (BBK)
  • Caja Madrid
    Caja Madrid
    Caja Madrid, formally the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid, headquartered in Madrid, is the oldest of the Spanish savings banks. It was founded on December 3, 1702 as Monte de Piedad de Madrid by Francisco Piquer, an Aragonese priest...

  • Cajastur
    Cajastur
    The Caja de Ahorros de Asturias is a savings and loan association of the Principality of Asturias. Caja de Ahorros de Asturias is the trade name of the enterprise while Cajastur is the commercial brand name it commonly uses....

  • CAM
    Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo
    Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, Caja Mediterráneo, or CAM is a savings bank in Spain. CAM is the result of integration at different stages of 29 financial institutions, the oldest of which traces its origins to 1875...

  • Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, "la Caixa"
    La Caixa
    La Caixa , formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona , is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million...

  • Caixa de Catalunya
  • Caixa de Manresa
  • Caixa de Terrassa
  • Caixa Penedès
  • Kutxa
    Kutxa
    The Kutxa is a savings bank operating with a regional scope in the Gipuzkoa province of Spain. Its Spanish name is Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Gipuzkoa y San Sebastián but it is most widely referred to as Kutxa.- History :...

  • Caixa Galicia
    Caixa Galicia
    Caixa Galicia was the trading name of Caja de Ahorros de Galicia, a Spanish savings bank based in A Coruña, Galicia.On 29 November 2010, following the financial crisis of 2007-2010, they signed a merger deal with Caixanova to create a new regional savings bank, Novacaixagalicia.-External links:*...

  • Caja Duero
  • Caja España
  • Caja Murcia
  • Caja Vital
  • Caja Circulo
  • Caja Navarra
    Caja Navarra
    Caja de Ahorros de Navarra or Caja Navarra or CAN is a medium sized savings bank based in the Navarra region of northern Spain with its headquarters in Pamplona...

  • Caja de Burgos
  • Caja Cantabria
  • Caixa de Balears, "Sa Nostra"
  • Cajasur
    CajaSur
    CajaSur was a Spanish savings bank, run by the priests in the Catholic Church, located in Córdoba, Spain. It was seized in May 2010 and defaulted in December 2010....

  • Unicaja
    Unicaja
    Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera, trading under the name Unicaja, is a financial institution based in Málaga, Spain and chartered as a caja de ahorros, similar to what would be called a savings and loan association in the United States, or a building...

  • Caixa Tarragona

 Switzerland

  • AIG Private Bank
  • Anker Bank
  • Arab Bank
    Arab Bank
    Arab Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East. Established in Jerusalem in Palestine in 1930 as a small bank, it has evolved into a group with the largest worldwide Arab network with over 500 branches in 30 countries on five continents, participating in financial markets...

     (Switzerland)
  • Banca del Gottardo
  • Banca della Svizzera Italiana
    Banca della Svizzera Italiana
    BSI is the oldest bank in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Founded in 1873 in Lugano as the Banca della Svizzera Italiana, today BSI is an institution that specialises in asset management and related services for private and institutional clients...

     (BSI)
  • Banca di Credito e Commercio
  • Banca Monte Paschi (Suisse)
  • Bank am Bellevue
  • Bank Jacob Safra
  • Bank Julius Baer
    Julius Baer Group
    Julius Bär Group is a Swiss banking firm which is the parent company of Bank Julius Bär, a traditional private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm dates itself back to the year 1890, when an exchange office was founded by Ludwig Hirschhorn und Theodor Grob. Joseph Michael Uhl and Julius...

  • Bank of New York
    Bank of New York
    The Bank of New York was a global financial services company established in 1784 by the American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. It existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007...

     - Inter Maritime Bank
  • Bank Pictet & Cie
  • Bank Sarasin
  • Bank Vontobel J. & Co. AG
  • Banque Alternative Suisse
  • Banque Bonhôte & Cie SA
  • Banque de promotion cofalys
  • Banque Diamantaire Anversoise (Suisse)
  • Banque Franck SA - Johnson International Group
  • Banque Galland et Cie SA
  • Hottinger & Cie
    Hottinger & Cie
    Hottinger & Cie, founded in 1968 in Zurich, is the principal company of the Hottinger Group, it is one of the successor of the private banking firm established in Paris by Hans-Konrad Hottinger . Since its foundation in 1786 it was very active in European economic life...

  • Banque MeesPierson Gonet SA
  • Banque Multi Commerciale
  • Banque Pasche
  • Banque Piguet & Cie SA
  • Banque SCS Alliance
  • Baumann & Cie Online
  • Banque Financière de la Cité (BFC)
  • BNP
    BNP Paribas
    BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...

     Suisse SA
  • Bordier & Cie
  • Caisse d'épargne du district de vevey
  • CIM Bank (CIM Banque)
    CIM Bank
    CIM Bank is a traditional Swiss private bank, founded in Geneva in 1990. CIM Bank serves institutional, corporate and private clients all around the world. Located in Geneva and Lugano, the bank has 65 employees...

  • Clariden Bank
  • Coop Bank
  • Crédit Agricole Indosuez (Suisse) SA
  • Crédit Lyonnais
    Crédit Lyonnais
    Crédit Lyonnais is a historic French bank. In the early 1990s it was the largest French bank, majority state-owned at that point. Crédit Lyonnais was the subject of poor management during that period which almost led to its bankruptcy in 1993...

     Suisse
  • Credit Suisse
    Credit Suisse
    The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...

     Group
  • Darier Hentsch & Cie
  • Discount Bank and Trust Group
  • E. Gutzwiller & Cie
  • Faisal Private Bank (Switzerland) SA
  • FinansBank
    Finansbank
    Founded in 1994 in Amsterdam, Credit Europe Bank N.V. has grown towards a top 10 position in the Netherlands with a total balance of Euro 10 billion as per end of 2010. The bank is under full supervision of the Dutch Central Bank, named De Nederlandsche Bank. Credit Europe Bank is focused on trade...

  • Gonet & Cie
  • Habib Bank AG Zurich
    Habib Bank AG Zurich
    Habib Bank AG Zurich, a commercial bank incorporated in Switzerland. It maintains headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, but has operations in Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and Kenya...

  • Hentsch Henchoz & Cie
  • Kantonalbank (German
    German language
    German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

    , French
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

    :Banque Cantonale, Italian
    Italian language
    Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

    : Banca Cantonale)
    • Aargauische Kantonalbank (AKB)
    • Appenzeller Kantonalbank (APPKB)
    • Banca dello Stato del Cantone Ticino (BancaStato)
    • Banque Cantonale de Berne (BEKB/BCBE)
    • Banque Cantonale de Fribourg (FKB)
    • Banque Cantonale de Genève
      Banque Cantonale de Genève
      Banque Cantonale de Genève is a publicly traded Swiss bank dedicated to the development of the Canton of Genève, and doing business throughout Switzerland and France.-History:...

       (BCGE)
    • Banque Cantonale du Jura (BCJU)
    • Banque Cantonale du Valais (BWKB)
    • Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise
      Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise
      Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise is a Swiss bank based in the canton of Neuchâtel....

       (BCN)
    • Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV)
    • Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB)
    • Basler Kantonalbank (BKB)
    • Glarner Kantonalbank (GLKB)
    • Graubündern Kantonalbank (GKB)
    • Luzerner Kantonalbank
      Luzerner Kantonalbank
      Luzerner Kantonalbank is the cantonal bank and the dominant retail banking group in the Swiss canton of Lucerne, with a market share of 50-60%. It is main focus on financing small businesses and personal mortgages in the local economy, the bank has avoided some of the issues facing its larger...

       (LUKB)
    • Nidwaldner Kantonabank (NWKB)
    • Obwaldner Kantonalbank (OWKB)
    • St.Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB)
    • Shaffauser Kantonalbank (SHKB)
    • Schwyzer Kantonalbank (SZKB)
    • Thurgauer Kantonalbank (TKB)
    • Urner Kantonalbank (URKB)
    • Zuger Kantonalbank (ZugerKB)
    • Zurcher Kantonalbank (ZKB)
  • Kanz Bank
  • La Roche & Co Banquiers
  • Lombard, Odier & Cie
  • Maerki, Baumann and Co. AG
  • MigrosBank
  • Mirabaud & Cie
  • Morval & Cie SA Banque
  • Rabo Robeco Bank
  • Rahn & Bodmer Banquiers
  • Rosbank
    Rosbank
    Rosbank is a Russian commercial bank that was founded in 1993. It is the 8th biggest bank in Russia by assets and is a member of the french group Société Générale. Its headquarters are in Moscow....

     (Switzerland)
  • S&B Investment Bank
  • SG Ruegg Bank
  • Skandia Bank (Switzerland) AG
  • Solothurner Bank (Soba)
  • Swiss National Bank
    Swiss National Bank
    The Swiss National Bank is the central bank of Switzerland. It is responsible for Swiss monetary policy and for issuing Swiss franc banknotes.The names of the institution in the four official languages of the country are: ; ; ; ....

  • Swissnetbank.com AG
  • UBS AG
    UBS AG
    UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland, which provides investment banking, asset management, and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland...

  • Union Bancaire Privée
    Union Bancaire Privée
    Union Bancaire Privée was founded in 1969 by Edgar de Picciotto. UBP, one of the most highly capitalized private banks, is a major player in the field of asset management in Switzerland with over $75 billion of assets under management....

  • Union Suisse des Banques Raiffeisen (USBR)
  • Valiant Bank
  • Volksbank Bodensee AG
  • Wegelin & Co

Defunct or merged banks

  • Schweizerische Volksbank (SVB) bought (Credit Suisse Group)
  • Swiss Bank Corporation
    Swiss Bank Corporation
    Swiss Bank Corporation was a large integrated financial services company located in Switzerland...

     (SBE/SBS) merged
  • Union Bank of Switzerland
    Union Bank of Switzerland
    Union Bank of Switzerland was a large integrated financial services company located in Switzerland. The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998, to become UBS to form what was then the largest bank in Europe and the second...

     (UBS/SBG) merged
  • Banca Unione di Credito
    Banca Unione di Credito
    Banca Unione di Credito is a full service bank based in Lugano, Switzerland, that specialises in private banking.-History:*1919 - Credito Italiano established Banca Unione di Credito in Switzerland....

     acquired by Banca della Svizzera Italiana (BSI)
  • Bank Leu Ltd merged Clariden
  • Bank Hofmann AGmerged Clariden
  • Bank von Ernst & Cie AG merged RBS Coutts
  • Banque Edouard Constantmerged EFG Privatebank SA
  • Ferrier Lullin et Cie SA merged UBS

Commercial banks

  • Universal Bank
    Universal Bank
    Universal Bank is an overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in West Covina, California, with branch offices in Arcadia, California, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, Monterey Park, California, Orange, California, and Rosemead, California, this privately-held community bank...

  • Avtozazbank
  • Avtokrazbank
  • Agrocombank
  • Aktyv-Bank
  • Alfa-Bank
  • FinBank
    FinBank
    FinBank Plc., also referred to as Finbank, is a commercial bank in Nigeria. It is one of the twenty-five commercial banks licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the country's banking regulator.-Overview:...

  • UPB
  • Nadra Bank
  • Ukrsibbank
    UkrSibbank
    «UkrSibbank» - full name Public joint-stock company “UkrSibbank”. It was registered on June 18, 1990. As of today, JSC «UkrSibbank» is the third largest bank of Ukraine, the second among foreign-owned banks, and acts as a financial supermarket....

     (BNP Paribas Group)
  • Home Credit Bank
  • Express Bank
  • VolksGroup Electron Bank
  • UniCredit Bank
  • Brokbusiness Bank
  • Bank NRB
  • Bank of Lviv
  • Delta Bank
  • UkrSocBank UniCredit Group
  • Ukrinbank
  • Ukreximbank
  • Ukrainian Professional Bank
  • VAB Bank
  • ProCredit Bank
    Procredit Bank
    Procredit Bank is a member of the Procredit Group, which owns majority stakes in 19 countries on the continents of The Americas, Africa, and Europe. Procredit Bank is the name of several of the Group's banks in the Eastern European region.-External links:*...

  • Megabank
  • BIG Energy
  • Syntez Bank
  • Enegobank
  • WestIncomBank
  • Pivdenny
  • LegBank
  • Prominvestbank
    Prominvestbank
    Prominvestbank was formed in August 1992...

  • First Investment Bank (PJSC)
    First Investment Bank (PJSC)
    Public Join-Stock Company First Investment Bank, commonly known as PJSC First Investment Bank is the Ukrainian bank that offers a full range of banking services to private and corporate customers. The bank was registered in June 20, 1997 with its headquarters at 6 Moskovskiy Avenue, Kiev...

  • Dnister Bank
  • Pravex Bank
    Pravex Bank
    Pravex Bank is a private commercial bank based in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Founded by Leonid Chernovetsky, it was licensed by the National Bank of Ukraine in 1992....

  • OTP Bank
    OTP Bank
    OTP Bank is the biggest commercial bank in Hungary, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank provides universal financial services for more than 13 million costumers, through nearly 1500 branches in 9 countries....

  • Raiffeisen Bank Aval
  • Poltava-Bank
  • Fortuna-Bank
  • SEB
    Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
    Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB is a Swedish financial group for corporate customers, institutions and private individuals with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Its activities comprise mainly banking services, but SEB also carries out significant life insurance operations and also owns Eurocard...

  • SwedBank
    Swedbank
    Swedbank AB is a leading Nordic-Baltic banking group with 9.5 million retail customers and 534,000 corporate customers in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In Sweden, the group has 377 branches. In the Baltic countries, it has another 224 branches...

  • SocKomBank
  • Oshchadny Bank
  • PrivatBank
    Privatbank
    PrivatBank is the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, in terms of the number of clients, assets value, loan portfolio and taxes paid to the national budget. Unlike most other large Ukrainian banks, PrivatBank is not based in Kiev, the capital city, but is headquartered in Dnipropetrovsk, a smaller...

  • Transbank
  • UBDP
  • Index Bank Crédit Agricole Group
  • Finansova Initsiatyva
  • Imex-Bank
  • CreditPromBank
  • Bank of Kiev
  • KREDOBANK
  • Rodovid Bank
    Rodovid Bank
    OJSC "Rodovid Bank" is a universal commercial bank providing its services for private individuals and legal entities throughout Ukraine...

  • Bank Forum
  • Factorial-Bank
  • Arkada
  • Plus Bank

 United Kingdom


Major banks

  • Bank of Scotland
    Bank of Scotland
    The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the second oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to...

    , part of Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. As at February 2010, HM Treasury held a 41% shareholding through UK Financial Investments Limited . The Group headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in London, with...

  • Barclays Bank
  • Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. As at February 2010, HM Treasury held a 41% shareholding through UK Financial Investments Limited . The Group headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in London, with...

  • HSBC Bank UK
    HSBC Bank (Europe)
    HSBC Bank plc is one of the four major clearing banks in the United Kingdom and is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings. The business ranges from the traditional High Street roles of personal finance and commercial banking, to private banking, consumer finance as well as corporate and...

  • Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB Bank Plc is a retail bank in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1995 by the merger of Lloyds Bank, established in Birmingham, England in 1765 and traditionally considered one of the Big Four clearing banks, with the TSB Group which traces its origins to 1810...

     (including Lloyds TSB Scotland plc). Part of Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. As at February 2010, HM Treasury held a 41% shareholding through UK Financial Investments Limited . The Group headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in London, with...

  • National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank Plc, commonly known as NatWest, is the largest retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom and has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc since 2000. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is ranked as the second largest bank in the world by assets...

     (commonly known as NatWest), part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
    Royal Bank of Scotland
    The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...

    , part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Standard Chartered Bank
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Standard Chartered PLC is a multinational financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with operations in more than seventy countries...

  • Santander UK
    Santander UK
    Santander UK plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Santander Group. Based in the United Kingdom, it operates under the name of Santander. Santander is the third largest bank in the UK in terms of deposits, the second largest in terms of mortgages held, and the fourth largest in terms of...

    , part of Banco Santander

Other banks

  • Adam & Company (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
  • Airdrie Savings Bank
    Airdrie Savings Bank
    Airdrie Savings Bank is a small commercial bank operation in the Lanarkshire and Glasgow areas of Scotland. It runs 8 branches throughout this area, with its head office in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire...

  • Arbuthnot Latham & Co
    Arbuthnot Latham & Co
    Arbuthnot Latham & Co is a small private bank based in Moorgate in the City of London in the UK. It has the status of one of the twelve accepting houses....

  • Bank Negara Indonesia
    Bank Negara Indonesia
    Bank Negara Indonesia , commonly known as BNI, is an Indonesian bank. It branches primarily in Indonesia, but it can also found in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and New York. It had 1,000 branches and 9 million customers in 2006. It is quoted on the Indonesia Stock Exchange as...

  • Butterfield Private Bank
  • Cater Allen Private Bank (part of Santander UK
    Santander UK
    Santander UK plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Santander Group. Based in the United Kingdom, it operates under the name of Santander. Santander is the third largest bank in the UK in terms of deposits, the second largest in terms of mortgages held, and the fourth largest in terms of...

    )
  • C.Hoare & Co
  • Clydesdale Bank
    Clydesdale Bank
    Clydesdale Bank is a commercial bank in Scotland, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group. In Scotland, Clydesdale Bank is the third largest clearing bank, although it also retains a branch network in London and the north of England...

     (part of the National Australia Bank
    National Australia Bank
    National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation...

    )
  • Co-operative Bank
    Co-operative Bank
    The Co-operative Bank plc is a commercial bank in the United Kingdom and Guernsey, with its headquarters in Manchester.The bank markets itself as an ethical bank, and refuses to invest in companies involved in the arms trade, global climate change, genetic engineering, animal testing and use of...

     (including smile
    Smile (bank)
    Smile, or smile.co.uk, is a British internet bank, and a trading division of The Co-operative Bank. It was established as the UK's first full internet bank in 1999. Other banks, like Egg and First-e, had opened in previous years but Smile was the first to offer full-service current accounts,...

    )
  • Coutts & Co (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
  • Drummonds Bank
    Drummonds Bank
    Messrs. Drummond is an English private banking house founded in 1717 by goldsmith Andrew Drummond . Drummonds Bank was owned by the Drummond family until 1924, when it was taken over by the Royal Bank of Scotland in its first acquisition south of the border.The bank offers a variety of services to...

     (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
  • DB(UK)Bank  (part of Deutsche Bank)
  • Duncan Lawrie
  • Egg
    Egg Banking plc
    Egg Banking plc is a British internet bank owned by Citigroup, with headquarters in Derby and London, England. Egg was born out of Prudential's initial banking arm , that had been established in 1996...

  • Habib Bank AG Zurich
    Habib Bank AG Zurich
    Habib Bank AG Zurich, a commercial bank incorporated in Switzerland. It maintains headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, but has operations in Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and Kenya...

  • ICICI Bank UK (subsidiary of ICICI Bank
    ICICI Bank
    ICICI Bank Ltd. is India's second largest financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It offers a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and through its specialised subsidiaries in the areas of...

    )
  • Kingdom bank independent Christian bank
  • ING
    ING Group
    The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

     Direct
  • Julian Hodge Bank
    Julian Hodge Bank
    Julian Hodge Bank is a small commercial bank in the United Kingdom. It is named after Sir Julian Hodge. The bank was formed in 1987, and is headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, the only independent bank headquartered in Wales...

  • Kleinwort Benson
    Kleinwort Benson
    Kleinwort Benson is a leading Private Bank that offers a wide range of financial services to private and corporate clients from offices throughout the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. The bank has its headquarters on St George Street in Mayfair, and is supported by seven UK regional and two...

     Private Bank Ltd (Part of the Dresdner Bank
    Dresdner Bank
    Dresdner Bank AG was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was based in Frankfurt. It was acquired by competitor Commerzbank in December 2009.- 19th century :...

     AG Group)
  • National Bank of Kuwait (International) PLC
    National Bank of Kuwait
    -The National Bank of Kuwait:The National Bank of Kuwait was incorporated in 1952 as the first local bank and the first shareholding company in Kuwait and the Gulf region. Over the years, NBK has maintained its position as the leading bank in Kuwait and built a well-established banking franchise...

  • Raphaels Bank independent bank established 1787
  • Reliance Bank
    Reliance Bank
    Formerly known as The Salvation Army Bank, Reliance Bank Limited was founded in 1890 by William Booth. When he needed to attract investments to finance mortgages on property vital to the work of the movement, his response was to set up the Army's own bank....

     owned by the Salvation Army
  • Yorkshire Bank
    Yorkshire Bank
    Yorkshire Bank is a commercial bank in England and Wales, a division of Clydesdale Bank, which in turn is a subsidiary of National Australia Bank. It mostly operates in the North of England, especially in Yorkshire. In 2006 underlying profit rose 16.7 per cent to £454 million compared with a...

     (part of the National Australia Bank
    National Australia Bank
    National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation...

    )
  • Sainsbury's Bank
    Sainsbury's Bank
    Sainsbury's Bank, now trading as Sainsbury's Finance, is a 50:50 joint venture between J Sainsbury and Bank of Scotland . Sainsbury’s was the first major British supermarket to open a bank, commencing trading in February 1997...

     (J Sainsbury plc 50%, Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. As at February 2010, HM Treasury held a 41% shareholding through UK Financial Investments Limited . The Group headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in London, with...

     50%)
  • Whiteaway Laidlaw Bank, subsidiary of Manchester Building Society
    Manchester Building Society
    The Manchester Building Society is a building society, which has its head office in Manchester, England. Its head office and only branch in Manchester City Centre at 125 Portland Street and it has many agencies around the country operating on its behalf. It is a member of the Building Societies...


Potential new market entrants

  • Tesco Bank
  • Metro Bank
  • Virgin Money
    Virgin Money
    Virgin Money is a UK-based financial services company owned by the Virgin Group and founded by Sir Richard Branson in March 1995. It was originally known as Virgin Direct, and pioneered index tracking by launching a value Personal Equity Plan into the market. In the 2000s Virgin Money expanded its...

  • Walton & Co
  • Home & Savings Bank
  • Boring Bank of Cambridge

Previous building societies converted to banks

  • Abbey
    Abbey (bank)
    Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain in 2004, and was rebranded as Santander in January 2010, forming Santander UK along with the savings business of the...

     (Previously Abbey National
    Abbey National
    Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain in 2004, and was rebranded as Santander in January 2010, forming Santander UK along with the savings business of the...

    ) (Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander of Spain)
  • Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester was a former UK-based bank and PLC, which in later years operated as a trading name of Santander UK before being rebranded as Santander. Alliance & Leicester was legally acquired in May 2010 by Santander UK, and was fully incorporated by 2011...

     (Now owned by Banco Santander)
  • Bradford & Bingley
    Bradford & Bingley
    Bradford & Bingley plc is a British bank with headquarters in the West Yorkshire town of Bingley. In 2008, partly due to the credit crunch, the bank was nationalised and in effect split into two parts; the mortgage book remained with the now publicly owned Bradford & Bingley plc, and the deposits...

     (Savings and Branch Network owned by Banco Santander with the mortgage and loans books nationalised by HM Government)
  • Northern Rock
    Northern Rock
    Northern Rock plc is a British bank, best known for becoming the first bank in 150 years to suffer a bank run after having had to approach the Bank of England for a loan facility, to replace money market funding, during the credit crisis in 2007.  Having failed to find a commercial buyer for...

     (Nationalised by HM Government)
  • The Woolwich
    The Woolwich
    The Woolwich is a trademark of the British bank Barclays. Originally the 'Woolwich' was the Woolwich Building Society before it demutualised and became a public limited company in 1997...

     (now part of Barclays Bank)


See Building society
Building society
A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization. Building societies offer banking and related financial services, especially mortgage lending. These institutions are found in the United Kingdom and several other countries.The term "building society"...

 for list of current, unconverted, building societies. In particular the Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society is a British building society, and is the largest in the world. It has its headquarters in Swindon, England, and maintains significant administration centres in Bournemouth and Northampton...

 offers a current account and other services normally associated with banks.

Merged or defunct banks

  • African Banking Corporation
    African Banking Corporation
    African Banking Corporation was a British Overseas Bank, that is, it had a headquarters in London but all its branches were overseas. Unusually, it was a consortium bank , rather than being owned by individuals...

  • Anglo-Egyptian Bank
    Anglo-Egyptian Bank
    The Anglo-Egyptian Bank was a British overseas bank established in 1864. The founding banks were Agra and Masterman's Bank and the General Credit and Finance Co., and the bank incorporated Pastré Frères et Compagnie and Giovanni Sinadino and Co., which was the only one of the four to have its seat...

  • Bank of British West Africa
    Bank of British West Africa
    Bank of British West Africa was a British Overseas bank that was important in introducing modern banking into the countries that emerged from the UK's West African colonies...

  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International
    Bank of Credit and Commerce International
    The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The Bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. Within a decade BCCI touched its peak...

  • Bank of London and South America
    Bank of London and South America
    The Bank of London and South America or BOLSA was a British bank which operated in South America between 1923 and 1986.- Origins :The bank was incorporated in England on 27 September 1862 as the London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate Bank, originally to operate in Buenos Aires...

  • Barings Bank
    Barings Bank
    Barings Bank was the oldest merchant bank in London until its collapse in 1995 after one of the bank's employees, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million due to speculative investing, primarily in futures contracts, at the bank's Singapore office.-History:-1762–1890:Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the...

  • Bank of Scotland
    Bank of Scotland
    The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the second oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to...

     (see also HBOS
    HBOS
    HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009...

    )
  • Cox & Kings
    Cox & Kings
    Cox & Kings is the longest established travel company in the world, its history stretching back to 1758 when Richard Cox was appointed as regimental agent to the Foot Guards. Cox & Kings is now an independent tour company with offices in the United Kingdom, India, the United States and Japan...

     (see Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB Bank Plc is a retail bank in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1995 by the merger of Lloyds Bank, established in Birmingham, England in 1765 and traditionally considered one of the Big Four clearing banks, with the TSB Group which traces its origins to 1810...

    )
  • District Bank
    District Bank
    District Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1829 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it remains a registered company but is dormant...

     (constituent of National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank Plc, commonly known as NatWest, is the largest retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom and has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc since 2000. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is ranked as the second largest bank in the world by assets...

    )
  • National Girobank/Girobank
    Girobank
    Girobank was a British public sector financial institution founded in 1968 by the General Post Office. Itstarted life as the National Giro but went through several name changes, becoming National Girobank, then Girobank Plc , before merging into Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank...

     (see Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester was a former UK-based bank and PLC, which in later years operated as a trading name of Santander UK before being rebranded as Santander. Alliance & Leicester was legally acquired in May 2010 by Santander UK, and was fully incorporated by 2011...

    )
  • Glyn, Mills & Co. (constituent of Williams & Glyn)
  • Grindlays Bank
    Grindlays Bank
    The Grindlays Bank was a major British overseas bank established in 1828.It operated mainly in British colonies, especially British India. After decolonization, it was a major foreign bank in India, Pakistan and other West Asian countries. As ANZ Grindlays Bank, it was for a while the largest...

  • Halifax (United Kingdom bank) (see also HBOS
    HBOS
    HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009...

    )
  • Icesave (part of Landsbanki
    Landsbanki
    Landsbanki, also commonly known as Landsbankinn in Iceland, is a private Icelandic bank with international operations...

    )
  • Ionian Bank
    Ionian Bank
    The Ionian Bank was a British overseas bank that investors established in 1839 to operate in the Ionian Isles, which was then a British Protectorate. The bank later expanded in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. After losing its branches in Egypt to nationalization, IB retreated from the...

  • Lloyds Bank
    Lloyds Bank
    Lloyds Bank Plc was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1765 until its merger into Lloyds TSB in 1995; it remains a registered company but is currently dormant. It expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies...

     (see Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB Bank Plc is a retail bank in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1995 by the merger of Lloyds Bank, established in Birmingham, England in 1765 and traditionally considered one of the Big Four clearing banks, with the TSB Group which traces its origins to 1810...

    )
  • Martins Bank
    Martins Bank
    Martins Bank Limited was a Liverpool-based British finanical services company that was taken over by Barclays Bank in 1969. The company has its origins in the 16th century and was said to have been founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, who began trading in Lombard Street under the sign of a grasshopper...

     (see Barclays Bank)
  • Morgan Grenfell & Co. (now DB(UK) Bank)
  • Midland Bank
    Midland Bank
    Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836...

     (now HSBC Bank plc
    HSBC Bank (Europe)
    HSBC Bank plc is one of the four major clearing banks in the United Kingdom and is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings. The business ranges from the traditional High Street roles of personal finance and commercial banking, to private banking, consumer finance as well as corporate and...

    )
  • National Commercial Bank of Scotland
    National Commercial Bank of Scotland
    The National Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. was a Scottish commercial bank. It was established in 1959 through a merger of the National Bank of Scotland with the Commercial Bank of Scotland . Ten years later it merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland, to become the largest clearing bank in Scotland...

     (see Royal Bank of Scotland)
  • National Provincial Bank
    National Provincial Bank
    National Provincial Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1833 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it remains a registered company but is dormant...

     (constituent of National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank Plc, commonly known as NatWest, is the largest retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom and has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc since 2000. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is ranked as the second largest bank in the world by assets...

    )
  • P&O Bank
    P&O Bank
    In 1920 James Mackay, later the Earl of Inchcape, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, established the P&O Banking Corporation to develop the shipping company's private banking business. In the same year, Lloyds Bank and National Provincial Bank took shares in P&O Bank, which in...

  • Trustee Savings Bank
    Trustee Savings Bank
    The Trustee Savings Bank was a British financial institution which specialised in accepting savings deposits from the poor. They did not trade their shares on the stock market and, unlike mutually held building societies, depositors had no voting rights nor the ability to direct the financial and...

     (see Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB Bank Plc is a retail bank in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1995 by the merger of Lloyds Bank, established in Birmingham, England in 1765 and traditionally considered one of the Big Four clearing banks, with the TSB Group which traces its origins to 1810...

    )
  • Wallace Smith Trust
  • Westminster Bank
    Westminster Bank
    Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it remains a registered company but is dormant...

     (constituent of National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank
    National Westminster Bank Plc, commonly known as NatWest, is the largest retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom and has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc since 2000. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is ranked as the second largest bank in the world by assets...

    )
  • Williams Deacon's Bank
    Williams Deacon's Bank
    Williams Deacon's Bank is now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland. It was acquired in 1930, and had a large network of branches in the north-west of England...

     (constituent of Williams & Glyn's Bank
    Williams & Glyn's Bank
    Williams & Glyn's Bank Limited was established in London in 1970, when the Royal Bank of Scotland merged its two subsidiaries in England and Wales, Williams Deacon's Bank Ltd. and Glyn, Mills & Co...

    )
  • Williams & Glyn's Bank
    Williams & Glyn's Bank
    Williams & Glyn's Bank Limited was established in London in 1970, when the Royal Bank of Scotland merged its two subsidiaries in England and Wales, Williams Deacon's Bank Ltd. and Glyn, Mills & Co...

     (see Royal Bank of Scotland)

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

  • Abbey
    Abbey (bank)
    Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain in 2004, and was rebranded as Santander in January 2010, forming Santander UK along with the savings business of the...

  • Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester was a former UK-based bank and PLC, which in later years operated as a trading name of Santander UK before being rebranded as Santander. Alliance & Leicester was legally acquired in May 2010 by Santander UK, and was fully incorporated by 2011...

  • Anglo Irish Bank
    Anglo Irish Bank
    Anglo Irish Bank was a bank based in Ireland with its headquarters in Dublin from 1964 to 2011. It went into wind-down mode after nationalisation in 2009....

  • Bank of Ireland
    Bank of Ireland
    The Bank of Ireland is a commercial bank operation in Ireland, which is one of the 'Big Four' in both parts of the island.Historically the premier banking organisation in Ireland, the Bank occupies a unique position in Irish banking history...

  • Barclays Bank
    Barclays plc
    Barclays PLC is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. As of 2010 it was the world's 10th-largest banking and financial services group and 21st-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...

  • First Trust Bank
    First Trust Bank
    First Trust Bank, part of the AIB Group, is a commercial bank in Northern Ireland. The bank was created in 1991 when TSB Northern Ireland merged with the AIB Group's other interests. The bank can trace its existence back to 1816 with the founding of the Belfast Savings Bank...

     (Allied Irish Banks
    Allied Irish Banks
    Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. is a major commercial bank based in Ireland.AIB is one of the so called "big four" commercial banks in the state. The bank has one of the largest branch networks in Ireland; only Bank of Ireland fully rivals it. AIB offers a full range of personal and corporate banking...

     Group)
  • Halifax
  • HSBC
    HSBC Bank (Europe)
    HSBC Bank plc is one of the four major clearing banks in the United Kingdom and is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings. The business ranges from the traditional High Street roles of personal finance and commercial banking, to private banking, consumer finance as well as corporate and...

  • KBC Bank Ireland (formerly IIB Bank)
  • Northern Bank
    Northern Bank
    Northern Bank , is a commercial bank in Northern Ireland. It is one of the oldest banks in Ireland having been formed in 1809. Northern Bank is considered one of the leading retail banks in Northern Ireland with 82 branches and four finance centres...

     (Danske Bank
    Danske Bank
    Danske Bank is a Danish bank. The name literally means "Danish Bank" It was founded 5 October 1871 as Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn ....

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  • Ulster Bank
    Ulster Bank
    Ulster Bank is a large commercial bank, one of the Big Four in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Ulster Bank Group is subdivided into two separate legal entities, Ulster Bank Limited and Ulster Bank Ireland Limited...

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