List of banks in Greece

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National Bank of Greece head office, Athens Batiment de la Banque Nationale de Grece, Athenes, aout 2025 2.jpg
National Bank of Greece head office, Athens
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Piraeus Bank head office, Athens

The following list of banks in Greece is to be understood within the framework of the European single market and European banking union, which means that Greece's banking system is more open to cross-border banking operations than peers outside of the EU.

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Policy framework

European banking supervision distinguishes between significant institutions (SIs) and less significant institutions (LSIs), with SI/LSI designations updated regularly by the European Central Bank (ECB). Significant institutions are directly supervised by the ECB using joint supervisory teams that involve the national competent authorities (NCAs) of individual participating countries. Less significant institutions are supervised by the relevant NCA on a day-to-day basis, under the supervisory oversight of the ECB. [1] In Greece's case, the NCA is the Bank of Greece. [2]

Significant institutions

As of 1 September 2025, the list of supervised institutions maintained by the ECB included the following four Greek banking groups as SIs, with names as indicated by the ECB for each group's consolidating entity. [3]

Other euro-area-based banking groups also have operations in Greece, but a study published in 2024 suggests that their footprint in the country is much smaller than that of the four major Greek banks. [4] : 27–29  All such cases are via branches, none via subsidiaries. [3]

Less significant institutions

As of 1 September 2025, the ECB's list of supervised institutions included ten Greek LSIs, of which the following three were designated by the ECB as "high-impact" on the basis of several criteria including size: [3]

The other seven Greek LSIs were:

Other institutions

The Bank of Greece and Hellenic Development Bank  ( el ) are public credit institutions that do not hold a banking license under EU law.

Defunct banks

A number of former Greek banks, defined as having been headquartered in the present-day territory of Greece, are documented on Wikipedia. They are listed below in chronological order of establishment. Multiple Greek banks came to an end in 2013 as a consequence of the Greek government-debt crisis.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "What are less significant institutions?". European Central Bank. 2 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Members and Observers". European Banking Authority. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 List of supervised entities - Cut-off date for changes in group structures: 1 September 2025 (PDF), European Central Bank, 24 October 2025
  4. ↑ Giulia Gotti, Conor McCaffrey & Nicolas Véron (October 2024), Banking union and the long wait for cross-border integration (PDF), European Parliament
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