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Albania
Albania (
i/ælˈbeɪniə/ al-BAY-nee-ə, Albanian: Shqipëri/Shqipëria; Gheg Albanian: Shqipnia), officially known as the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë pronounced Albanian pronunciation: [ɾɛpuˈblika ɛ ʃcipəˈɾiːs]), is a country in Southern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than 72 km (45 mi) from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
Albania is a member of the UN, NATO, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Council of Europe, World Trade Organisation, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and one of the founding members of the Union for the Mediterranean. Albania has been a potential candidate for accession to the European Union since January 2003, and it formally applied for EU membership on 28 April 2009.
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Astoria, Queens
Coordinates: 40°46′28″N 73°54′15″W / 40.77444°N 73.90417°W / 40.77444; -73.90417
Astoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the New York City borough of Queens. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City, Sunnyside (bordering at Northern Boulevard), and Woodside (bordering at 50th Street). Astoria is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 114th Precinct.
The area now known as Astoria was originally called Hallet's Cove, after its first landowner William Hallet, who settled there in 1659 with his wife Elizabeth Fones. Beginning in the early 19th century, affluent New Yorkers constructed large residences around 12th and 14th streets, an area that later became known as Astoria Village (now Old Astoria). Hallet's Cove, founded in 1839 by fur merchant Steven Halsey, was a noted recreational destination and resort for Manhattan's wealthy.
The area was renamed after John Jacob Astor, then the wealthiest man in America, with a net worth of over $40 million, in order to persuade him to invest just $2,000 in the neighborhood. He only invested $500, but the name stayed nonetheless, as a bitter battle over naming the village was finally won by Astor's supporters and friends. From Astor's summer home in Hell Gate, Manhattan – on what is now East 87th Street near York Avenue – he could see across the East River the new Long Island village named in his honor; however, Astor never actually set foot in Astoria.
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Belgrade
Belgrade (
/ˈbɛlɡreɪd/; Serbian: Београд; [beǒɡrad] (
listen); names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. Its name in English translates to White city. The city proper has a population of over 1.1 million, while its metropolitan area has over 1.6 million people, making it one of the largest cities in Southeast Europe.
One of the largest prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved around the area Belgrade in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region, and after 279 BC Celts conquered the city, naming it Singidūn. It was conquered by the Romans during the reign of Augustus, and awarded city rights in the mid 2nd century. It was settled by the Slavs in the 520s, and changed hands several times before it became the capital of King Stephen Dragutin (1282–1316). In 1521 Belgrade was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and became the seat of a the Sanjak of Smederevo. It frequently passed from Ottoman to Habsburg rule, which saw the destruction of most of the city during the Austro-Ottoman wars. Belgrade was again named the capital of Serbia in 1841. The north of Belgrade remained a Habsburg outpost until 1918, when it was merged into the capital city. As a strategic location, the city was battled over in 115 wars and razed to the ground 44 times. Belgrade was the capital of Yugoslavia (in various forms of governments) from its creation in 1918, to its final dissolution in 2006.
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Budapest
Budapest ( /ˈbuːdəpɛst/, /ˈbuːdəpɛʃt/ or /ˈbʊdəpɛst/; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt] ( listen); names in other languages) is the capital and the largest city of Hungary, the largest in East-Central Europe and the seventh largest in the European Union. It is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre, sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. According to 2011 Census, Budapest had 1.74 million inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2.1 million due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter Area is home to 3.3 million people. The city covers an area of 525 square kilometres (202.7 sq mi) within the city limits. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with a unification on 17 November 1873 of west-bank Buda and Óbuda with east-bank Pest.
The history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia.Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241-42. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture in the 15th century. Following the Battle of Mohács and nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, development of the region entered a new age of prosperity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Budapest became a global city after the 1873 unification. It also became the second capital of Austria-Hungary, a great power that dissolved in 1918. After the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, when Hungary lost 72% of its former territory, culturally and economically the country became wholly Budapest-dominated. The capital dominates the country both by the size of its population—which dwarfs those of Hungary's other cities Budapest was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, Operation Panzerfaust in 1944, the Battle of Budapest of 1945, and the Revolution of 1956.
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Bulgaria
Coordinates: 42°45′N 25°30′E / 42.75°N 25.5°E / 42.75; 25.5
Bulgariai/bʌlˈɡɛəriə/ (Bulgarian: България, IPA: [bɤ̞ɫˈɡarijɐ]), is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and the Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south and the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country. Its location has made it a historical crossroad for various civilisations and as such it is the home of some of the earliest metalworking, religious and other cultural artifacts in the world.
Prehistoric cultures began developing on Bulgarian lands during the Neolithic period. Its ancient history was marked by the presence of the Thracians, and later by the Greeks and Romans. The emergence of a unified Bulgarian ethnicity and state dates back to the First Bulgarian Empire, which dominated most of the Balkans and functioned as a cultural hub for Slavic peoples during the Middle Ages. With the downfall of the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1396, its territories came under Ottoman rule for nearly five hundred years. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 resulted in the Third Bulgarian State, recognised in 1908. The following years saw several conflicts with its neighbours, which prompted Bulgaria to align with Germany in both World Wars. In 1946 it became a Communist republic with a single-party system until 1989, when the Communist Party allowed multi-party elections. After 1990 Bulgaria transitioned to democracy and a market-based economy.
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Deutsche Bundesbank
The Deutsche Bundesbank (German for German Federal Bank) is the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). Due to its strength and former size, the Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Both the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) are located in Frankfurt am Main. It is sometimes referred to as "Buba" for Bundesbank.
The Bundesbank was established in 1957 and succeeded the Bank deutscher Länder, which introduced the Deutsche Mark on 20 June 1948. Until the euro was physically introduced in 2002, the Deutsche Bundesbank was the central bank of the former Deutsche Mark ("German Mark", sometimes known in English as the "Deutschmark").
The Deutsche Bundesbank was the first central bank to be given full independence, leading this form of central bank to be referred to as the Bundesbank model, as opposed, for instance, to the New Zealand model, which has a goal (i.e. inflation target) set by the government.
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DnB NOR
DNB ASA (formerly DnB NOR 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's head office is located in Oslo.
The two largest owners of DNB are the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry (34.0%) and Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR (10.0 %). The latter was created as a foundation with the sole purpose of owning part of the company. It was created when Gjensidige NOR was made a public limited company to ensure that the companies' customers retained partial ownership of the company. The foundation also can give up to 25% of its received dividend as gifts to charity.
In Norway DNB Bank has bank offices throughout the country. Though both Postbanken and Nordlandsbanken are part of the company, they retain their own brands and offices. Postbanken offers its services through the post offices while Nordlandsbanken has its offices exclusively in the county of Nordland. As of April 2011, Postbanken and its brand has been merged with the DNB Group.
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Greece
Greecei/ˈɡriːs/ (Greek: Ελλάδα, Ellada, IPA: [eˈlaða] ( listen) historically in Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellas, IPA: [eˈlas] and [helːás] respectively), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Elliniki Dimokratia, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in Southern Europe, politically considered part of Western Europe.Athens is the capital and the largest city in the country (its urban area also including Piraeus). The population of the country is around 11 million.
Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at 2,917 m (9,570 ft).
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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Macedonia (Greece)
Coordinates: 40°45′N 22°54′E / 40.75°N 22.9°E / 40.75; 22.9
Macedonia (/ˌmæsɨˈdoʊniə/ ( listen); Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía, [maceðoˈnia]) is a geographical and historical region of Greece in Southern Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region. The region and that of Thrace (and sometimes Epirus and Thessaly) are often together referred to informally as Northern Greece.
It incorporates most of the territories of ancient Macedon, a kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II. The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine Empires with widely differing borders. Under the Ottomans, the name disappeared altogether.
Even before the establishment of the modern Greek state in 1830, it was identified as a Greek province, albeit without clearly defined geographical borders By the mid 19th century, the name was becoming consolidated informally, defining more of a distinct geographical, rather than political, region in the southern Balkans. At the end of the Ottoman Empire most of the region known as Rumelia (from Ottoman Turkish: Rumeli, "Land of the Romans") was divided by the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913, following the Ottoman defeat in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria each took control of portions of the Macedonia (region), with Greece obtaining the largest portion; a small section went to Albania. The region was an administrative subdivision of Greece until the administrative reform of 1987, when the region was divided into the regions of West Macedonia and Central Macedonia and part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, the latter containing also the whole of the region of Thrace.
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Moscow
Moscow (
/ˈmɒskaʊ/ or /ˈmɒskoʊ/; Russian: Москва́, tr. Moskva; IPA: [mɐˈskva] (
listen)) is the capital and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural and scientific center of Russia and the continent. Moscow is the northernmost megacity on Earth, the most populous city in Europe, and the 6th largest city proper in the world. Its population, according to the results of the 2010 Census, is 11,503,501. Based on Forbes 2011, Moscow has the largest community of billionaires in the world.
Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District of European Russia. In the course of its history the city has served as the capital of a progression of states, from the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow and the subsequent Tsardom of Russia to the Soviet Union. Moscow is the site of the Moscow Kremlin, an ancient fortress that is today the residence of the Russian President and of the executive branch of the Government of Russia. The Kremlin is also one of several World Heritage Sites in the city. Both chambers of the Russian parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council) also sit in Moscow.
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Romania
Romania (i/roʊˈmeɪniə/ roh-MAY-nee-ə; dated: Roumania; or Rumania;Romanian: România [romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.
At 238,400 square kilometers (92,000 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with over 19 million people. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the tenth largest city in the EU with about two million people.
The Kingdom of Romania emerged when the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were united under Prince Alexander Ioan Cuza in 1859. Independence from the Ottoman Empire was declared on 9 May 1877, and was internationally recognized the following year. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the Kingdom of Romania. Greater Romania emerged into an era of progression and prosperity that would continue until World War II. By the end of the War, many north-eastern areas of Romania's territories were occupied by the Soviet Union, and Romania forcibly became a socialist republic and a member of the Warsaw Pact.
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Serbia
Serbiai/ˈsɜrbiə/, officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija, pronounced [rɛpǔblika sř̩bija]), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; additionally, it borders Albania through Kosovo, whose status as part of Serbia is disputed. Serbia covers an area of 88,361 km2 and has a population of just over 7.1 million, while the capital and largest city is Belgrade.
The arrival of the Serbs to the Balkans in the 7th century, established several states, eventually forming the Serbian Empire in the 14th century. By the 16th century, Serbia was conquered and occupied by the Ottoman Empire, at times interrupted by the Habsburgs. In the early 19th century the Serbian revolution re-established the country as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory and pioneered the abolition of feudalism in the Balkans. The former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina united with Serbia in 1918. Following World War I, Serbia formed Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples which existed in several forms up until 2006, when the National Assembly of Serbia declared independence and the legal succession to the former State Union. In February 2008 the parliament of UNMIK-governed Kosovo, Serbia's southern province, declared independence, with mixed responses from international governments.
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Sofia
Sofia (Bulgarian: София, pronounced [ˈsɔfijɐ] ( listen)) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 15th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.2 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.
Prehistoric settlements were excavated in the centre of the present city, near the royal palace, as well as in outer districts Slatina and Obelya. The well-preserved town walls (especially their substructures) date back before the 7th century BC, when Thracians established their city around a mineral spring, which exists to the present day. Sofia has had several names in the different periods of its existence. Its ancient name, Serdika or Serdica, derives from the local Celtic tribe of the serdi who inhabited the region since the 1st century BC. Serdica was a Roman capital during the tetrarchic system of government. During the Middle Ages, it was one of the major commercial centres of the Bulgarian Empire, along with Tarnovo. Sofia's population remained small until 1879, when it was declared a capital of the Principality of Bulgaria after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.
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Tirana
Tiranai/tɨˈrɑːnə/ (indefinite form in Albanian: Tiranë, in the region sub-dialect of Gheg Albanian: Tirona) is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of 400,000 , with metro area population of 763,634 . The city is host to public institutions and private universities, and is the center of the political, economical, and cultural life of the country.
The Municipality of Tirana is located at (41.33°N, 19.82°E) in Tirana District, Tirana County on the river Ishëm, about 32 kilometers (20 mi) inland. Tirana's average altitude is 110 meters (360 ft) above sea level and its highest point measures 1,828 m (5,997.38 ft) at Mali me Gropa. The city is mostly surrounded by hills, with Dajti Mountain on the East and a slight valley opening on the North-West overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance. The Tiranë river also runs through the city, whereas the Lanë river is a brook. The city borders the surrounding municipalities of Paskuqan, Dajt, Farkë, Vaqarr, Kashar, and Kamëz. It also contains a total of four artificial lakes: the Tirana Artificial Lake around which was built the Big Park, Paskuqani Lake, Farka Lake, and Tufina Lake. Tirana is on the same parallel as Naples, Madrid, Istanbul, and New York, and on the same meridian as Budapest and Kraków.
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Ukraine
Ukraine (i/juːˈkreɪn/ yew-KRAYN; Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina, [ukrɑˈjinɑ]; Russian: Украина; Crimean Tatar: Ukraina) is a country in Central and Eastern Europe. Ukraine borders the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after the Russian Federation.
According to a popular and well established theory, the medieval state of Kievan Rus was established by the Varangians in the 9th century as the first historically recorded East Slavic state which emerged as a powerful nation in the Middle Ages until it disintegrated in the 12th century. By the middle of the 14th century, Ukrainian territories were under the rule of three external powers—the Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Kingdom of Poland. After the Great Northern War (1700–1721) Ukraine was divided between a number of regional powers and, by the 19th century, the largest part of Ukraine was integrated into the Russian Empire with the rest under Austro-Hungarian control. A chaotic period of incessant warfare ensued, with several internationally recognized attempts at independence from 1917 to 1921, following World War I and the Russian Civil War. Ukraine emerged from its own civil war, and on December 30, 1922 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic became one of the founding republics of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian SSR's territory was enlarged westward during the civil war shortly before, and after World War II, and further south in 1954 with the Crimea transfer. In 1945, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the United Nations.
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Bank of China
Bank of China Limited (BOC) SSE: 601988 SEHK: 3988 (simplified Chinese: 中国银行; traditional Chinese: 中國銀行; pinyin: Zhōngguó Yínháng; often abbreviated as 中銀 or 中行) is one of the big four state-owned commercial banks of the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1912 by the Government of the Republic of China, to replace the Government Bank of Imperial China. It is the oldest bank in China. From its establishment until 1942, it issued banknotes on behalf of the Government of the Republic of China along with the "Big Four" banks of the period: the Central Bank of China, Farmers Bank of China and Bank of Communications. Although it initially functioned as the Chinese central bank, in 1928 the Central Bank of China replaced it in that role. Subsequently, BOC became a purely commercial bank. Its headquarters are in Xicheng District, Beijing.
In December 2010, the Bank of China New York branch began offering RMB products for Americans. This is the first major Chinese bank to offer such a product currently.
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Piraeus Bank Deposit, "I choose" - TV Commercial
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- Duration: 0:33
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
Client: Piraeus Bank // Agency: Civitas // Director: Stoyan Radev // Camera: Andrei Andreev
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PIRAEUS BANK - WOMAN
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- Duration: 0:44
- Updated: 18 Jul 2012
AGENCY: CREATIVE REVOLUTION / AWG CYPRUS & GULF CLIENT: PIRAEUS BANK PRODUCTION: SEMIO PRODUCTIONS DIRECTOR: CHRISTOS KARKAPOULIAS DOP: SOFRONIS SOFRONIOU YEAR: 2012
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The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, Athens, GREECE
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- Updated: 03 Apr 2012
"The Jury was much impressed by the altruistic approach of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, and praised the important work done to grant derelict heritage buildings a second life by transforming them into regional museums, well suited to attract the public at large. The museums thus created represent an exemplary effort to make both the buildings and their collections available to the public, a most praiseworthy effort of ensuring sustainability in a regional context. "
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Karl Volokh VS Piraeus Bank
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- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
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Pireaus Bank-UNICEF "Charity card" - TV Commercial
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- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
Client: Piraeus Bank-UNICEF // Agency: Civitas // Director: Dimitar Kotzev-Shosho // DoP: Andrei Andreev
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Bandits - Assassins PIRAEUS BANK
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- Duration: 8:22
- Updated: 07 May 2012
Jaf bancar organizat de conducerea Piraeus Bank Madalina Tanase si familia Murariu. Bank robbery organized by Piraeus Bank management Madalina Tanase and Murariu family. Contract online banking nr.102/ 08 08 2007 ilegal si fals, persoane inventate si semnaturi false pe numele M. Felicia si Abdula Ingi. Convorbire inregistrata cu ABDULA INGI. OOPS!? Ce zice ABDULA INGI? Eu nu merg la banca. Asta nu e semnatura mea. Eu niciodata nu am fost la banca. Evaluarile garantiilor bancare sunt facute de prestatori-evaluatori angajati de Piraeus Bank si in numele Piraeus Bank. Assessments bank guarantees are made by providers, evaluators hired by Piraeus Bank and in name Piraeus Bank. Supravaluare bancara falsa efectuata de evaluatori de la Piraeus Bank, familia Tuca, in cazul firmei SOCRATE XXI SRL. Overvaluation of evaluators made false bank Piraeus Bank, Tuca family, where SOCRATES company XXI SRL. Piraeus Bank a evaluat un teren in valoare de 10 000 de euro. cu peste 239 997euro. Piraeus Bank has assessed land worth 10000 euros, with over 239 997 euros. Ce calitate are ADRIANA MURARIU in firma SOCRATE XXI SRL? What quality is ADRIANA MURARIU in the company SOCRATES XXI Ltd? Nici o calitate, dar a obtinut credit bancar de la Piraeus Bankin valoare de peste 239 997 euro, cu semnaturi si acte false in numele firmei SOCRATE XXI SRL. No quality, but obtained a bank loan from Piraeus Bankin of over 239 997 euros, with signatures and fake in name the company SOCRATES XXI SRL.
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Piraeus Bank Fontana Di Trevi
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- Updated: 05 Jan 2012
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24Channel BankersAdvice Piraeus Online Banking (Ukraine)
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- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
Piraeus Bank in Ukraine, 24 Channel, BankersAdvice, July 2011 - Piraeus Bank in Ukraine launched Piraeus Online Banking
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E-learning Program - Department of Banking & Financial Management, University Of Piraeus
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- Duration: 21:50
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
E-learning Program, Department of Banking & Financial Management, University Of Piraeus - Focus Web TV
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Piraeus Bank "cherry"
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- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
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Piraeus Bank tv spot "Cherry"
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- Duration: 0:40
- Updated: 15 Dec 2010
New Tv Spot for the Piraeus Bank made by the new directorial team "the cOre".
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Wedding Photo Art | exhibition | Piraeus Bank Conference | February 2011
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Wedding Photo Art | exhibition | Piraeus Bank Conference | February 2011
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TVC Piraeus Stednja za sve ukuse.mpg
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- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 17 Dec 2011
Piraeus Stednja za sve ukuse
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GREECE IT' S OVER WITH CROOKS!
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- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Mrs Maria Exarchoulakou, lawyer, and Mr Odysseas Tligadas, businessman and share holder, lodged their complaint against anyone who is responsible for the downgrading and shameful sale of Agricultural Bank of Greece to The Bank of Piraeus of Mr. Sallas, The wealthy Agricaulture Bank of Greece was donated to Mr. Sallas and his friends and followers for a mess of potage, with Greek Judges and Public Prosecutors remaining unconcerned.
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PIRAEUS BANK "ORIGAMI BIRD"
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 29 Apr 2012
PRODUCER : MICHALIS ALEXAKIS DIRECTOR : ROB SANDERS DOP : TAKIS ZERVOULAKOS ART DIRECTOR : KOSTAS PAPAS
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PIRAEUS BANK - TRAPEZA PEIRAIOS - CIRCUIT
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- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 26 Aug 2010
DIRECTOR: "THE POPE" aka BABIS MAKRIDIS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: DIONYSSIS KITSIKIS ART DIRECTOR: STAVROS KANELLEAS
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Piraeus Bank, a Software AG ARIS Business Publisher Customer Success Story
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Piraeus Bank streamlines and standardizes core processes, achieving a 50-80 percent improvement in response time thanks to ARIS Business Publisher (www.softwareag.com To see other ARIS Business Publisher Customer Success Stories please visit www.softwareag.com Thank you for viewing! We welcome your comments and feedback!
http://wn.com/Piraeus_Bank,_a_Software_AG_ARIS_Business_Publisher_Customer_Success_Story
Piraeus Bank "million"
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- Duration: 0:32
- Updated: 15 Jan 2012
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PIRAEUS BANK SNOW
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- Updated: 13 Jul 2010
2004 2005 TV SPOT
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Piraeus Bank Living Room
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- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 11 Aug 2010
Piraeus Bank Living Room
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Pretul aurului va pastra un trend ascendent si in continuare - Alina Piciorea, Piraeus Bank
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- Duration: 1:41
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B1 TV stire 25 oct 2012: "Cei care au cumparat aur in ultimii doi ani au dat lovitura. Potrivit specialistilor, la fiecare 100 de lei investiti, ei au castigat cate 60 de lei. La moda acum este achizitia lingourilor de aur, investitia fiind scutita de impozitul de 16%. Cei care vor sa investeasca in aur trebuie sa stie totusi ca acesta poate fi vandut doar bancii de unde este cumparat. BNR nu mai cumpara aur de la populatie din anul 2000." Piraeus Bank, Alina Piciorea - Director Vanzari Trezorerie
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PIRAEUS BANK - KALOMATHIMENOS
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- Updated: 17 Apr 2012
DIRECTOR: PANOS KORONIS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: DIMITRIS KYRIAKOU ART DIRECTOR: ANNA GEORGIADOU
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PIRAEUS BANK - PETROS
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- Duration: 0:39
- Updated: 19 Jul 2011
DIRECTOR: PLATONAS ANDRONIDIS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: THEODORE ZACHARAKIS ART DIRECTOR: LUCAS ECONOMOPOULOS
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| Type | Anonymi Etairia |
|---|---|
| Traded as | Athex: TPEIR |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
| Key people | Michael Sallas (Chairman), Stavros Lekkakos (CEO) |
| Products | Retail, private, investment and commercial banking, asset management |
| Revenue | €1.499 billion (2010)[1] |
| Profit |  (€20.5 million) (2010)[1] |
| Total assets | €57.68 billion (end 2010)[1] |
| Total equity | €3.274 billion (end 2010)[1] |
| Employees | 13,320 (end 2010)[1] |
| Website | www.piraeusbank.gr |
Piraeus Bank Group is a Greek bank founded in 1916 that went through a period of state ownership and management (1975–1991) before it was privatised in December 1991. Since then, it has continuously grown in size and activities. The Piraeus Bank group of companies engages in financial and banking activities not only in Greece, but also in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as the financial centres of London and New York.
Piraeus Bank Group engages in retail banking, the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), capital markets, investment banking, leasing, real estate and financing of the shipping sector.
Piraeus Bank Group has a constantly expanding network with more than 300 branches in Greece, 14 branches in New York, 1 in the UK, 180 branches in Romania, 72 in Bulgaria, 38 in Albania, 38 in Serbia and 40 in Egypt. Piraeus Bank Group acquired a Ukrainian bank, International Commercial Bank, in 2007. In addition, Piraeus Bank operates a representative office in Moscow.
Additionally, Piraeus Bank offers a line of online banking services under the brand "winbank".[2]
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History[link]
- 1916: A group of shipowners founded Banque du Piree (Piraeus Bank; BP) to finance trade.
- 1975: BP came under government ownership.
- 1991: The government privatized BP and the bank changed its name to Piraeus Bank (PB).
- 1998: PB absorbed the activities of Chase Manhattan Bank (2 branches) in Greece, and Crédit Lyonnais Greece. It also acquired 37% of Macedonia-Thrace Bank from National Bank of Greece in a privatization.
- 1999: PB acquired 35% of Xios Bank. PB also absorbed the activities of National Westminster Bank in Greece.
- 2000: PB merged in Macedonia-Thrace Bank and Xios Bank.
- 2002: PB acquired 58% of ETBA Bank (Hellenic Industrial Development Bank) from the Greek government with a view to merging it. PB also entered into a strategic alliance with ING Group, which took a 5% stake in PB.
- 2003: PB absorbed ETBA.
- 2006: PB sold back to ING its stake in a jointly-owned mutual funds company. Cooperation continues via the bank-assurance company ING-PIRAEUS.
- 2007: Bank of Piraeus reached agreement with the Avis group to acquire 100 pct of Avis Rent-A-Car Hellas for 25.5 mln eur. Brokers[who?] said that this purchase will create synergies for the group leasing subsidiary, Piraeus Leasing, by adding a car fleet valued at 200 mln eur to its long-term leasing business.
International expansion[link]
- 1995: PB established Piraeus Bank Romania.
- 1996: PB established Tirana Bank. This was the first privately owned banking institution in Albania and now has over 35 branches.
- 1999: with its acquisition of Xiosbank, PB took over Xios's branch in Sofia, Bulgaria, and PB now has some 15 branches in the country. PB also acquired Marathon National Bank of Astoria, New York, which has branches in Astoria and nearby towns. Astoria is a town with a large population of Greek descent. That same year, PB established a branch in London.
- 2000: PB acquires Pater Bank in Romania from Budapest Bank. Pater Bank targeted Hungarians living in Romania.
- 2003: PB acquired Interbank N.Y., which operated a network of 5 branches in New York City, and specifically in Brooklyn, Astoria, Queens, as well as in Park Avenue, downtown Manhattan. PB then merged Interbank with Marathon National.
- 2005: PB acquired Belgrade-based Atlas banka in Serbia and renamed it Piraeus Bank Beograd. PB acquired Eurobank in Bulgaria and subsequently merged it into Piraeus Bank Bulgaria. PB acquired Egyptian Commercial Bank in Egypt and renamed it Piraeus Bank Egypt.
- 2007: PB purchased the Cyprus arm of Arab Bank and renamed it Pireaus Bank (Cyprus).[3]
- 2007: On 13 September Piraeus Bank S.A. completed its acquisition of 99.6% of the share capital of International Commercial Bank in Ukraine. In early 2008 PB changed the name to Bank of Piraeus ICB.
References[link]
- ^ a b c d e "Annual Report 2010". Piraeus Bank. http://www.piraeusbank.gr/Documents/internet/ConsolidatedCo2010/12M_EN.pdf. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ "Online banking Tribute" (in Greek). http://www.go-online.gr/ebusiness/specials/article.html?article_id=747.
- ^ "Greek Bank of Piraeus to buy Arab Bank network in Cyprus for 15 mln eur". Hemscott. 10 December 2007. http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=56416543023063. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
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