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The Czech National Bank, is the central bank and financial market supervisor in the Czech Republic, headquartered in Prague. It is a member of the European System of Central Banks. It was established on 1 January 1993 from the division of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia as part of the process of dissolution of Czechoslovakia, together with the National Bank of Slovakia.
The Böhmische Escompte-Bank was a significant Prague-based bank with branches in most major towns of Bohemia and, later, Czechoslovakia. In 1919 it was renamed Böhmische Escompte-Bank und Credit-Anstalt (BEBCA). Its name was changed back to Böhmische Escompte-Bank in 1939, and it ceased activity in 1945.
Živnostenská banka was a major commercial bank operating in the Habsburg Monarchy, then Czechoslovakia until absorption into the State Bank of Czechoslovakia in 1950. It restarted activity in the late 1950s, was privatized in 1992, and after 1993 was one of the largest banks in the Czech Republic. In 2002 it was purchased by UniCredit, and in 2006 was renamed UniCredit Bank Czech Republic.
Československá obchodní banka, a.s. (ČSOB) is one of the largest commercial banks operating in the Czech Republic. It is a universal bank that offers a full range of banking services to individuals and companies. It operates 280 ČSOB branded branches, and 3,300 Česká pošta branches under the brand name Poštovní spořitelna.
Following the break-up of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, continued to share the 42 country code until 28 February 1997, with the Czech Republic then adopting 420 and Slovakia adopting 421.
EUFISERV is a European interbank network connecting the ATMs of savings banks in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. It is the largest and the only international credit union-owned interbank network in Europe.
The Taiwan Cooperative Bank is a publicly listed bank headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Originally established in 1923 during Japanese rule in Taiwan, TCB was reorganized in 1946 and has grown significantly since. Today, it is one of the largest banks in Taiwan and has the most branches (301) among Taiwanese banks. Taiwan Cooperative Bank is one of Taiwan's six domestic systemically important banks.
The European Savings and Retail Banking Group is a European banking association representing around two dozen members from 20 countries, comprising approximately 1000 individual savings and retail banks. These institutions operate 60,000 outlets and employ 810,00 people.
Erste Group Bank AG is an Austrian financial service provider. It is one of the largest financial service providers in Central and Eastern Europe serving more than 16 million clients in over 2,000 branches in seven countries. Erste Group is headquartered in Vienna and operates as a universal bank.
Hello bank! is a digital direct bank owned by BNP Paribas that started operations in 2013. The bank operates in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Austria. BNP Paribas has claimed that it is "the first 100% digital mobile bank in Europe".
Česká spořitelna is a Czech bank, headquartered in Prague. Despite being organized as a joint-stock bank, it is the heir to a long history of savings banks in the Czech Republic, going back to the establishment of Böhmische Sparkasse in 1825. Since the early 21st century, it has been part of the Vienna-headquartered Erste Group.
The Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank, also known as Anglobanka, was the second-largest bank in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It resulted from the merger in 1930 of three Prague-based banks:
The National Bank of Czechoslovakia was the central bank of Czechoslovakia between 1926 and 1939, succeeding the Austro-Hungarian Bank after a 6-year interval during which central banking functions were assumed directly by the country’s ministry of finance.
Tomáš Salomon is a Czech banker and investor who is currently the CEO of Česká spořitelna as well as the vice president of the Czech Banking Association.
The Böhmische Union-Bank was a bank based in Prague, founded in 1872. One of the main commercial banks in interwar Czechoslovakia, it was associated with the country's German and Jewish communities. It was aryanized in March 1939, nationalized without compensation in October 1945, and subsequently liquidated.
The Böhmische Industriebank was a Czech bank based in Prague, founded in 1898. By 1914, it was among the three largest banks in the Czech lands. The bank came to an end in 1943 when it was merged with Živnostenská Banka.