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Name Total Assets (2022) [2] Capital Website American Bank of Investments (ABI) 116,270 mln ALL: abi.al: BKT: 491,470 mln ALL: bkt.com.al: Credins Bank (CB) 297,740 mln ALL
The Albanian banking network began its development in 1913 with the establishment of the central bank, but the banking network started its real expansion after the fall of Communism, in 1992. Following the new capitalist market economy structure, this network was established as a two-tier system of the central bank and secondary banks.
The bank was founded in 1925 in Rome as the National Bank of Albania (Albanian: Banka Kombëtare e Shqipnis, Italian: Banca Nazionale d’Albania, Albanian acronym BKS or BKSH), replaced in 1945 by the state-owned Albanian State Bank based in Tirana (Albanian: Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar, BSS or BSHSH), before taking its current name in 1992.
In the early 1990s, Albania reformed its banking system to establish a two-tier banking system.In 1991, Banka Tregtare Shqiptare (BTSH) was established from the sub-division of the activities of the Albanian State Bank, the main activity of which was managing the foreign trade operations of the state-owned entities with former socialist countries.
It was originally known as Banka e Kursimeve (Savings Bank of Albania), but following its acquisition by Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) during 2004 [2] it was rebranded as Raiffeisen Bank. Since the acquisition, Raiffeisen has implemented retail lending and services, starting with ATM services and debit cards, and later additional retail activities.
The bank was founded in September 1996 and was the first privately owned bank in Albania. The bank was a subsidiary of Piraeus Bank until August 2018 when the agreement on the sale of Tirana Bank to Balfin Group and Komercijalna Banka was announced. [1] [2] In 2021, Tirana Bank had a market share of 5.46%, making it the 7th largest bank in ...
Online banking, also known as internet banking, virtual banking, web banking or home banking, is a system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website or mobile app. Since the early 2000s this has become the most common way that customers ...
The beginnings of Balfin Investment Group started in 1993 in Vienna, where Samir Mane founded Alba-Trade. Having started with the trade of electronic devices, soon the BALFIN Group, created by Mane managed to create the largest network of electronics stores in Albania, Neptun and then extending the network in the neighboring countries of Kosovo and Macedonia.