Bank of Athens

The Bank of Athens (Greek: Τράπεζα Αθηνών, French: Banque d'Athènes), colloquially known as Athinaiki,^[1]: 58 was a Greek bank based in Athens, Greece, from where it took its name. Founded in 1893 and long affiliated with France's Banque de l'Union Parisienne (BUP), it was Greece's second-largest bank in the mid-20th century behind the National Bank of Greece (NBG). It expanded in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean until merging with the NBG in 1953. Its brand was briefly revived in Greece during the 1990s,^[2] and separately survived until 2019 in a former South African subsidiary.