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1880 — Caixa Económica Portuguesa was founded as a savings bank for Portugal's poorer classes. 1885 — The two Caixas merged. 1896 — CGD was spun off from the Junta de Crédito Público. This was followed by the creation of Caixa de Aposentações for wage earners and Monte de Piedade Nacional, a pawnbroking operation.
CaixaBank, S.A. (Catalan pronunciation: [ˌkaʃəˈbaŋ]), formerly Criteria CaixaCorp, is a Spanish multinational financial services company. CaixaBank is based in Valencia, with operative offices in Barcelona and Madrid. It is Spain's third-largest lender by market value, after Banco Santander and BBVA.
Banco Espírito Santo : bailed-out by the Portuguese state in 2014 and re-organised into Novobanco; Banco Português do Atlântico; Banco Português de Negócios : sold to the Angolese Bank Banco BIC in 2012
CaixaBank; Banco Sabadell; There were formerly a "big six" (los seis grandes) composed of three banks that are now part of BBVA (Banco de Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, and state-owned Banco Argentaria) and three now combined as Santander (Banco Central, Banco Hispanoamericano, and Banco de Santander).
Banif was founded and incorporated by Horácio Roque [2] on 15 January 1988 and took over all of the assets and liabilities of the defunct Caixa Económica do Funchal. In 1995, it opened offices in Caracas, Venezuela and South Africa; in 1996 in São Paulo, Brazil; and in 2008 in San Ġiljan, Malta.
Banco Português de Investimento (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɐ̃ku puɾtuˈɣeʒ ðɨ ĩvɨʃtiˈmẽtu], "Portuguese Investment Bank"), or simply BPI, is a Portuguese private investment bank, currently owned by finance multinational CaixaBank. Founded in 1981, it runs the banking business with companies, institutional and private clients.
The liquidation of the La Caixa Foundation took place on 16 October 2014 while the transfer of the stake in CaixaBank took place on 14 October 2014. [14] On 26 June 2014, the president of CaixaBank and until then president of the savings bank, Isidro Fainé, was elected president of the Board of Trustees of the La Caixa Banking Foundation. [15]
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