Company:Piraeus Bank

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Short description: Second largest bank in Greece
Piraeus Financial Holdings S.A.[1]
Native name
Πειραιώς Financial Holdings Α.Ε.[1]
TypePublic
ISINGRS014003032[2]
IndustryFinancial services
Founded6 July 1916; 107 years ago (1916-07-06)[1]
Headquarters
Athens
,
Greece[1]
Number of locations
405 branches[3] (2022)
Area served
Key people
[4]
Revenue
  • Increase €2.582 billion (2022)
[5][3]
  • Increase €1.693 billion (2022)
[5][3]
  • Increase €577 million (2022)
[5][3]
AUM
  • Increase €6.938 billion (2022)
[5][3]
Total assets
  • Decrease €75.661 billion (2022)
[5][3]
Total equity
  • Increase €6.581 billion (2022)
[5][3]
Owner
  • Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (27%)
  • Paulson & Co. (19%)
  • Helikon Investments (9%)
[6]
Number of employees
8,604[3]
Subsidiaries
  • MIG Holdings (87.7948%)[7][8]
  • Piraeus Bank ICB (99.99%)[8]
  • Strix Holdings (100%)[8]
  • Trastor Real Estate Investment Company (97.78%)[8]
Capital ratioFully Loaded Common Equity Tier 1 = 11.5% (Fully Loaded Basel III)
Websitewww.piraeusholdings.gr

Piraeus Bank (Greek: Τράπεζα Πειραιώς) is a Greek multinational financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece.[9] Piraeus Bank's shares have been listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) since January 1918.[10]

In Greece, with a 30% market share in loans (34.4 billion) and 29% in deposits (54.6 billion), it is the country's largest bank.[11]

Piraeus has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.[12][13]

Activities

Piraeus Bank is a universal bank providing various banking services.

Historically a bank supportive of SMEs it now also possesses particular know-how in the areas of agricultural banking, consumer and mortgage credit, green banking, capital markets, investment banking, leasing and electronic banking.[10]

Piraeus Bank Group

Piraeus Bank and its subsidiaries form the Piraeus Bank Group.[14]

History

The historic building in Athens
Building in Odesa, Ukraine

Foundation

A group of shipowners in Piraeus founded Banque du Pirée (Piraeus Bank; BP) in 1916 to finance trade. The bank started trading on the Athens Exchange in 1918.[15] The Greek government bought the bank in 1975 and transformed it into a universal bank. The new headquarters designed by Sir Basil Spence were built on Stadiou Street in the center of Athens. In December 1991 the government privatised the bank, which has grown in size and scope since then.

Expansion and consolidation

In 1962, PT joined the Emporiki Bank Group (or Andreadis Group). In On December 5, 1975, PT was nationalised and in 1991, the state privatized PT and the bank changed its name to Piraeus Bank (TP). Michalis Sallas takes over. In 1995 the Group established Piraeus Bank Romania with 160 branches and one year later Tirana Bank, the first privately owned banking institution in Albania with 56 branches. In 1999 with its acquisition of Xiosbank, PB took over Xios's branch in Sofia, Bulgaria; it has now some 83 branches in the country. PB also acquired the small New York-based Marathon National Bank and Interbank N.Y; it merged Interbank into Marathon Bank.

In 1998 the bank absorbed the Greek branch networks of Chase Manhattan Bank, Crédit Lyonnais, and acquired a controlling interest in Macedonia-Thrace Bank. A year later it added in the activities of National Westminster Bank and acquired Xiosbank (Bank of Chios) which it totally absorbed along with Macedonia-Thrace Bank. In 2002 Piraeus Bank signed a strategic alliance with ING Group (bancassurance). In 2005 it acquired the Bulgarian Eurobank, Atlas Bank in Serbia, Egyptian Commercial Bank in Egypt. In 2007 it expanded in Ukraine by acquiring the International Commerce Bank (renamed as Piraeus Bank ICB) and established Piraeus Bank Cyprus with the acquisition of Arab Bank Cyprus.

In 2002 the bank absorbed 58% of ETBA Bank (Hellenic Industrial Development Bank). PB also started a strategic alliance with ING Group, which took a 5% stake in the Piraeus Bank. In 2006 the PB sold back to ING its stake in a jointly owned mutual funds company. Cooperation continues via the bank-assurance company ING-PIRAEUS.

In 2005 Piraeus Bank acquired the Belgrade-based Atlas banka in Serbia (today Piraeus Bank Beograd with 42 branches), and the Egyptian Commercial Bank (today Piraeus Bank Egypt with 43).

In 2007 PB purchased the Cyprus arm of Arab Bank and renamed it Piraeus Bank (Cyprus).[16] On 13 September 2007 Piraeus Bank completed its acquisition of 99.6% of the share capital of International Commercial Bank in Ukraine , today named Piraeus ICB.

Financial crisis

Within the European debt crisis, Piraeus Bank has been subject to the Greek austerity packages: the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund became its main stock holder since 2012 and remained such as of 2020.

In 2011, according to reports in July 2012, the bank obscured its real access to capital by providing circular loans to finance purchase of its own stock through undeclared offshore companies.[17]

In 2012, Piraeus Bank took part in the restructuring of the Greek banks, gaining a leading position in the Greek banking sector.

  • In June 2012 Piraeus Bank sold its shares in Marathon Banking Corporation (New York City) to Investors Bancorp. The capital was used to finance the take over of the Greek banks Geniki Bank and healthy parts of ATEbank.
  • In 2012 it acquired the so-called 'good' part of Agricultural Bank.
  • In December 2012 it acquired Societe Generale's Geniki Bank.[18]

In 2013, Piraeus Bank was considered as having sufficient capital and was included in the group of 4 systemic banks which would be coordinated by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund to absorb undercapitalised banks.[19] It would reach an international presence consisting of 370 branches focusing in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean as of 2014.[10]

  • In March 2013 it took over the Greek branches of Bank of Cyprus, Hellenic Bank and CPB Bank.
  • In June 2013 it took over Millennium Bank (Greece).
  • In April 2015 it also absorbed the 'good' parts of small Greek Cooperative bank Panellinia.
  • In May 2015 it sold its subsidiary in Egypt to Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait.

After a probe by the European Commission over government bailouts following the Greek government-debt crisis, in July 2014 restructuring plans for the bank were approved.[20] In November 2015 the European Commission approved amended restructuring plans for Alpha Bank and Eurobank and then for Piraeus Bank on 29 November 2015, allowing a new injection of €2.72 billion of public funds via the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund.[21]

In the following years, Piraeus Bank proceeded to divest abroad.

  • In March 2017, it sold Piraeus Bank Cyprus to an investment group led by Lebanese businessman Maurice Sehnaoui, which renamed it AstroBank.[22]
  • In September 2017, it sold its Serbian banking and leasing operations of Piraeus Bank Beograd, to Direktna Banka A.D.[23][24]
  • In December 2017, it sold Piraeus Bank Romania to J.C. Flowers & Co.[25][26]
  • In April 2018, it sold Piraeus Bank Beograd to Direktna Banka A.D.[27]
  • In June 2019, it sold Piraeus Bank Bulgaria to Greek Eurobank and merged with its bank Postbank.

As of June 2019, the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund held 26% of outstanding common shares,[28] while the remaining 74% was held by the private sector (legal entities and individuals).[29]

HFSF had the option to €2 billion of perpetual bonds into Piraeus Bank shares in December 2022.[28] As of November 2020, the total market capitalization of the bank was less than €500 million. The conversion was triggered in November 2020, giving HFSF a further 35% share of the bank,[30] worth less than 200 million euro, a paper loss of over 1.5 billion euro.[31]

In November 2020, the bank was nationalised.

Data Protection Fine

In May 2023, Piraeus Bank was fined €210k by the Greek Data Protection Supervisory Authority for unlawful processing of personal data and failure to respond to a request for information. This information is supported by a reference provided by the GDPR Fine Tracker Portal[32]

See also

  • List of banks in Greece
  • List of companies of Greece
  • Banking in Greece

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Στοιχεία Δημοσιότητας" (in el). Union of Hellenic Chambers Of Commerce. https://www.businessregistry.gr/publicity/show/225501000. 
  2. ↑ "Profile". https://www.athexgroup.gr/en/web/guest/stock-profile/-/select-stock/60. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "PIRAEUS FINANCIAL HOLDINGS PRESS RELEASE Full Year 2022 Financial Results". https://www.piraeusholdings.gr/~/media/Com/2022/Files/investors/financials/FY2022-results-24022023/FY_Press-Release_2022_EN_f.pdf. 
  4. ↑ "Board Members". https://www.piraeusholdings.gr/en/investors/corporate-governance/board/piraeus-financial-holdings-board-of-directors. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 "FY 2022 DATA OF PIRAEUS FINANCIAL HOLDINGS". https://www.piraeusholdings.gr/~/media/Com/2022/Files/investors/financials/FY2022-results-24022023/IRToolWebsite-FY2022-v10--to-send.xlsm. 
  6. ↑ "Shareholding Structure". https://www.piraeusholdings.gr/en/investors/share/shareholder-structure. 
  7. ↑ "MIG - Company". https://www.athexgroup.gr/web/guest/stock-company-profile/-/select-stock/325. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "9Μ Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements". Piraeus Financial Holdings. https://www.piraeusholdings.gr/~/media/Com/2023/Files/Investors/Financials/Financial-Results/9M/9M_Group_En.pdf. 
  9. ↑ "TPEIR Profile & Executives - Piraeus Bank SA - Bloomberg". bloomberg.com. https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TPEIR:GA/profile/. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Group, Piraeus Bank. "Corporate Profile - Piraeus Bank". http://www.piraeusbankgroup.com/en/group-profile/brief-profile. 
  11. ↑ "Περιγραφή Ομίλου | Πειραιώς Financial Holdings". https://www.piraeusholdings.gr/el/group-profile/brief-profile. 
  12. ↑ "The list of significant supervised entities and the list of less significant institutions". 4 September 2014. https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/ecb/pub/pdf/ssm-listofsupervisedentities1409en.pdf. 
  13. ↑ "List of supervised entities". 1 January 2023. https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/ecb/pub/pdf/ssm.listofsupervisedentities202302.en.pdf. 
  14. ↑ "General information about the Group". http://www.piraeusbankgroup.com/~/media/Com/Downloads/Investors/6M_MYFR_ENG.ashx. 
  15. ↑ TPEIR: profile.helex.gr
  16. ↑ "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. 
  17. ↑ Luke Baker (2012-07-23). "EU says mismanaged Greek banks face "revamp"". Reuters. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-greece-piraeus-idUKBRE86M0PM20120723. "Michael Sallas, and his children had taken out loans of more than 100 million euros to secretly buy shares representing an undeclared family stake in the bank of more than 6 percent. The purchases, conducted as part of an 800-million-euro (624.16 billion pounds) Piraeus rights issue in January 2011 designed to strengthen the bank's capital base, were made via offshore companies owned by Sallas and his two children" 
  18. ↑ Papadoyiannis, Yiannis (28 May 2014). "Absorption of Geniki makes financial sense for Piraeus group". http://www.ekathimerini.com/160284/article/ekathimerini/business/absorption-of-geniki-makes-financial-sense-for-piraeus-group. 
  19. ↑ Green, Elaine (24 September 2013). "Greek Banking No Longer Lost At Sea?". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mergermarket/2013/09/24/greek-banking-no-longer-lost-at-sea/. 
  20. ↑ "Restructuring of two Greek banks approved by EU". Greek Herald. http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/224057453/scat/48158b5a5afd369b/ht/Restructuring-of-two-Greek-banks-approved-by-EU. 
  21. ↑ "State aid: Commission approves aid for Piraeus Bank on the basis of an amended restructuring plan". 2015-11-29. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_15_6193. 
  22. ↑ "The market is beginning to recognize us as a bank that is looking to lend". The Business Report. 27 September 2017. http://www.the-businessreport.com/article/market-beginning-recognize-astro-bank-looking-lend-cyprus/. 
  23. ↑ Reuters Editorial. "Piraeus Bank agrees to sell Serbian operations to Direktna Bank" (in en-US). U.S.. https://www.reuters.com/article/piraeus-bank-serbia/piraeus-bank-agrees-to-sell-serbian-operations-to-direktna-bank-idUSL8N1MS6AY. 
  24. ↑ "Direktna Banka buys Piraeus Bank's Serbian unit" (in en-US). http://www.balkaneu.com/direktna-banka-buys-piraeus-banks-serbian-unit/. 
  25. ↑ Marica, Irina (2017-12-22). "Greek group Piraeus sells Romanian subsidiary to J. C. Flowers" (in en-US). Romania Insider. https://www.romania-insider.com/piraeus-bank-romania-sold/. 
  26. ↑ "Piraeus Bank Agrees the Sale of Piraeus Bank Romania" (in en-US). https://finance.yahoo.com/news/piraeus-bank-agrees-sale-piraeus-115800062.html. 
  27. ↑ Watch, CEE Market. "Serbian Direktna Banka completes acquisition of Piraeus Bank Beograd | | Central European Financial Observer". https://financialobserver.eu/recent-news/serbian-direktna-banka-completes-acquisition-of-piraeus-bank-beograd/. 
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (November 2019). "Interim Statement of Financial Position of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, as of 30 June 2019". http://www.hfsf.gr/files/HFSF_Interim_January_June_2019_en.pdf. 
  29. ↑ 4-traders. "Piraeus bank shareholder structure/ 4-traders.com". http://www.4-traders.com/PIRAEUS-BANK-SA-1408756/company/. 
  30. ↑ "Cancellation of the CoCo coupon payment". 2020-11-23. https://www.athexgroup.gr/documents/10180/6048150/63_9831_2020_English_2.pdf/91d8d6d1-a586-4bf6-805c-e3187f4122ab. 
  31. ↑ "Greece had a plan for its banks. Then the coronavirus struck.". 2020-11-27. https://www.politico.eu/article/greek-banks-and-new-democracy-government-face-reckoning-from-coronavirus-nationalization-privatization-dividends/. 
  32. ↑ "210.000 Euro fine against Piraeus Bank SA". https://www.dsgvo-portal.de/gdpr-fines/gdpr-fine-against-piraeus-bank-sa-2023-06-20-GR-2978.php. 

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