Banco BISA

Last updated
Banco BISA S.A.
Company type Sociedad Anónima. Also Subsidiary of Grupo Financiero BISA
BBV: BIS
Industry Banking, Financial services
Founded5 July 1963
Headquarters La Paz, Bolivia
Key people
Julio Cesar León Prado (Chairman), Julio Jaime Urquidi Gumucio (Vice President)
Products Consumer banking, corporate banking, credit cards, insurance, investment banking, mortgage loans, risk management.
RevenueIncrease2.svg Bs. 651 million (2014) [1]
Increase2.svg Bs. 440 million (2014) [1]
Increase2.svg Bs. 292 million (2014) [1]
Total assets Increase2.svg Bs. 16.71 billion (2014) [1]
Number of employees
2,033 (2014) [1]
Parent Grupo Financiero BISA S.A.
Website https://www.bisa.com

Banco BISA S.A., formerly known as Banco Industrial S.A. is a Bolivian banking and financial services company headquartered in La Paz. Founded on 5 July 1963, Banco BISA became Bolivia's third largest bank by assets. [2] The bank provides its products and services through operating 66 banking centers, [3] 280 ATMs, [3] call centers, and online and mobile banking platforms.

Contents

The bank is a division of Grupo Financiero BISA S.A., a group which comprises BISA Seguros y Reaseguros S.A., an insurance and reinsurance division, La Vitalicia Seguros y Reaseguros de Vida S.A., which specializes in life insurance, BISA Leasing S.A., a leasing entity BISA Agencia de Bolsa S.A., a brokerage house and BISA Sociedad Administradora de Fondos de Inversión S.A., which specializes in the investment and administration of funds. [4]

History

Banco BISA was founded on 5 July 1963 as Banco Industrial S.A. (BISA). Later the bank changed its business name to Banco BISA S.A. The bank expanded its network of branches shortly after its founding. Currently, the bank operates in all nine departments of Bolivia including in small towns such as Copacabana, Puerto Suárez and Yacuíba.

In 2015, Banco BISA inaugurated its new regional headquarters in the city of Cobija. The new headquarters is the first green building in the Pando Department and one of the few in the nation. [5]

Businesses

Banco BISA offers a wide range of financial services and products to a diversified individual and corporate customer base including savings accounts, credit cards, mortgages, commercial loans, investment management and microfinance services.

Corporate affairs

Board of directors

[6]

Related Research Articles

Grupo Financiero Banorte, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as Banorte and as Ixe, is a Mexican banking and financial services holding company with headquarters in Monterrey and Mexico City. It is one of the four largest commercial banks of Mexico by assets and loans, and the largest retirement fund administrator (AFORE).

Grupo Financiero Banamex S.A. de C.V. has its origins and is the owner of the Banco Nacional de México or Citibanamex. It is the second-largest bank in Mexico. The Banamex Financial Group was purchased by Citigroup in August 2001 for $12.5 billion USD. It continues to operate as a Citigroup subsidiary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grupo Elektra</span> Mexican financial and retailing corporation

Grupo Elektra is a Mexican financial and retailing corporation established by Hugo Salinas Price. The company has operations in Latin America and is the largest non-bank provider of cash advance services in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bancolombia</span> Colombian financial institution

Bancolombia S.A. is a full-service financial institution that provides financial products and services in Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, Peru and Guatemala. Bancolombia is one of the six banking-related companies of the COLCAP index. The Bank operates in nine segments: Banking Colombia, Banking El Salvador, Leasing, Trust, Investment, Brokerage, Off Shore, Pension and Insurance, and all other segments.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CaixaBank</span> Spanish financial services company

CaixaBank, S.A., formerly Criteria CaixaCorp, is a Spanish multinational financial services company. CaixaBank is based in Valencia, with operative offices in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. It is Spain's third-largest lender by market value, after Banco Santander and BBVA. CaixaBank has 5,397 branches to serve its 15.8 million customers, and has the most extensive branch network in the Spanish market. It is listed in the Bolsa de Madrid and is part of the IBEX 35.

Mercantil Banco is a financial institution with more than 90 years of banking activity in Venezuela and is a subsidiary of Mercantil Servicios Financieros.

Banregio Grupo Financiero, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as BanRegio, is a Mexican regional bank headquartered in San Pedro Garza García, near Monterrey, Mexico. It offers services mainly for small and medium-sized companies, such as business loans, leasing, factoring and working capital loans.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Werthein Group</span>

Grupo Werthein is a holding company with more than 90 years of history, led by members of the Werthein family from different generations.

Grupo Financiero Galicia is a financial services holding company based in Buenos Aires, and its banking operations are the fifth largest in Argentina, as well as the largest among all domestically-owned private banks in the country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Banesco</span>

Banesco Banco Universal C.A. is a Venezuelan financial institution whose principal branch is located in Caracas. The bank is part of the Asociación Bancaria de Venezuela.

Credicorp is the leading financial services holding company in Peru, with a presence in Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Panama and the United States. It currently has a consolidated universal banking, insurance and pension platform that serves all segments of the Peruvian population, complemented by a significant presence in microfinance, investment banking and wealth management in Latin America. It has around 20 million customers internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Banco Santander Río</span> Spanish commercial bank and financial services company

Banco Santander Argentina is a commercial bank and financial services company and affiliate of the Santander, Cantabria (Spain) based Santander Group. Based in Buenos Aires, its banking operations are the third largest in Argentina, as well as the largest among all privately owned banks in the country.

Banco de Crédito de Bolivia is a banking and financial services company located in Bolivia. It is headquartered in La Paz and is a wholly owned international subsidiary of Banco de Crédito del Perú, Peru's largest bank. BCP Bolivia started its operations in the country following BCP's acquisition of the Bolivian bank Banco Popular. BCP Bolivia provides its products and services through operating 102 branches, 240 ATMs, call centers, and online and mobile banking platforms. Banco de Crédito de Bolivia is currently Bolivia's fourth largest bank by total assets.

The Wertheins are an important family of entrepreneurs in Argentina who own and control the Werthein Group.

Mercantil Servicios Financieros (Mercantil) is a Venezuelan holding company of financial services present in 9 countries in America and Europe. Its shares are listed on the Caracas Stock Exchange and it maintains a Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program (ADR) in the over-the-counter market (OTC) in the United States of America .

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Banco Nacional de Bolivia</span> Bolivian banking institution

Banco Nacional de BoliviaS.A. (BNB) (English: National Bank of Bolivia) is a Bolivian bank and financial institution headquartered in Sucre, Bolivia. Founded in 1871, it is one of Bolivia's oldest banks. It is also the country's second largest bank by total assets.

Grupo Financiero Santander México, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican banking group and a subsidiary of Spanish bank Banco Santander.

Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz S.A. doing business as Mercantil Santa Cruz is a Bolivian bank and financial services company with headquarters in La Paz. As of 2015, Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz is the largest bank in Bolivia by assets. It is a full-service corporation that provides a wide range of financial products and services to an individual and corporate client base through a national network of operating 93 branches, more than 350 ATMs, call centers, and online and mobile banking platforms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ibercaja Banco</span>

Ibercaja Banco, S.A., stylised as iberCaja, is a Spanish financial services company based in Zaragoza. It was created by the Caja de Ahorros and Monte de Piedad of Zaragoza, Aragón and Rioja (Ibercaja) in 2011, to develop its financial activity, being initially the shareholder of 100% of the bank. After the acquisition of Caja3 by Ibercaja Banco, in the process of banking restructuring in Spain, 87.8% was owned by Ibercaja and 12.2% by the three Caja3 shareholders.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Memoria Anual 2014 (Annual Report 2014)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Banco BISA. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Los más grandes, los mejores" (in Spanish). Información Independiente. Archived from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Buscar Agencias o Cajeros Automáticos" (in Spanish). Banco BISA. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Grupo Financiero BISA S.A." (PDF) (in Spanish). Banco BISA. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Banco BISA inaugura un edificio ecológico en Cobija" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Memoria Anual 2013 – Directorio" (PDF) (in Spanish). Banco BISA. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.