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Clock Tower of Guayaquil. The Clock Tower of Guayaquil (Spanish: Torre del Reloj), also known as the Moorish Tower (Spanish: Torre Morisca), is a structure located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. [1] It has gone through several incarnations before its current form, which ended construction in 1931.
According to the Ecuadorian Superintendency of Banks, as of 2012, the ten most profitable banks in Ecuador were (ordered by profit): Banco Pichincha, Banco del Pacífico, Banco de Guayaquil, Produbanco, Banco Internacional and Banco Bolivariano, Banco del Austro, Banco Solidario, Citibank Ecuador and Unibanco (now merged with Banco Solidario). [2]
The Banco Pichincha is the largest private-sector bank in Ecuador, by capitalization and by number of depositors.It is the primary bank of the Pichincha Group (Grupo Pichincha), a business group that includes the companies associated with the bank and businesses related to Fidel Egas Grijalva and his family, which include Diners Club of Ecuador, Picaval and Teleamazonas.
Founded in 1952 in Managua as Banco de América Central, BAC was the forerunner of what is now known as the BAC Credomatic Group (Spanish: Grupo BAC Credomatic). By the seventies, the bank ventured into the business of credit cards using the Credomatic brand. In the mid eighties, the Group decided to enter other markets in the region, starting ...
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. [ 1 ] Established in 1959, the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic ...
Area served. Ecuador. Products. Banking services. Owner. The Isaias Group and later Government of Ecuador. Filanbanco was the largest bank in Ecuador until it went bankrupt in 2001 following the banking crisis of 1998. [1] The bank was originally founded in the city of Guayaquil in 1908.
Rank Building City Height [1] Number of floors Year 1: Torre The Point: Guayaquil: 137 m: 36: 2013 2: Banco La Previsora: Guayaquil: 135 m: 33: 1995 3: Basilica del Sagrado Voto Nacional
Banking in Ecuador has a long history. At the time of the dissolution of Gran Colombia and its formation as a republic, Ecuador 's economy was generally not monetized; gold and silver coins were circulated, and were brought into common use by successive currency laws. [1] Little by little, with the growth of the nation, Ecuadorian banking also ...