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Itaú Securities is an American securities firm based in New York City, United States that is a subsidiary of Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco. It is a broker dealer (est: 2002) that specialize in Brazilian securities for US institutional investors. As of 2008, the companies market capitalization was US$ 41.7 billion. [citation needed]
In September 2006, Banco Itaú bought BankBoston's assets in Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. On November 4, 2008, Banco Itaú and Unibanco announced the merger that resulted in Banco Itaú Unibanco. The institution was born with R$575 billion in assets, a net equity of around R$51.7 billion and a portfolio of combined credit of R$225.3 billion.
Instituto Itaú Cultural is a Brazilian not-for-profit cultural institute owned by Itaú Unibanco. [1] The institute was founded by Olavo Egydio Setúbal and created under the Law nº 7505, of 3 October 1986. [2] The institute's goal is to map artistic manifestations and to foster artistic research and production related to all cultural ...
In time its headquarters moved to São Paulo, in the homonymous state, Brazil's largest financial center.Unibanco grew to be the third largest non-government bank in the country, largely due to the 1995 acquisition of Banco Nacional, which went bankrupt alongside other major financial houses during the national banking meltdown of the early years of the Real Plan.
Escola de Belas Artes (School of Fine Arts) is one of the centers of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and dates back to colonial times. A royal letter of Nov 20 1800 by John VI of Portugal established the Aula Prática de Desenho e Figura in Rio de Janeiro. It was the first institution in Brazil systematically dedicated to teaching the ...
The design of the National Art Schools, created by Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti, ran counter to the dominant International Style of the time. The three architects saw the International Style as the architecture of capitalism and sought to recreate a new architecture in the image of the Cuban Revolution.