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The British Heart Foundation was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease. They wanted to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart and circulatory diseases. [7] BHF-funded clinical research
BHF Bank, full name Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank was a German bank formed in 1970 by merger between the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and Frankfurter Bank, both founded in the 1850s. It was initially named Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft – Frankfurter Bank ( lit.
The Frankfurter Bank was a German bank founded in 1854 in Frankfurt, which issued its own banknotes until 1901. On 1 January 1970, it merged with the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft to form Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank , generally referred to as BHF Bank until 2017 and since then as ODDO BHF .
Gustav Mevissen (1815-1899) organized the consortium that established the BHG Former Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft head office complex, Französische Strasse 42-44. The foundation of the BHG in 1856 was inspired by the experience of the Crédit Mobilier in France (est. 1852) and its German emulator the Bank für Handel und Industrie in Darmstadt, or Darmstädter Bank (est. 1853).
ODDO BHF is a financial services group headquartered in Paris, France It was created in 1967 as Oddo & Cie , a French family-owned stockbroker. In 2016, Oddo purchased BHF Bank , a German bank specialising in Mittelstand companies, and in 2017 renamed itself ODDO BHF.
[8] In line with its strategy to transform itself into a focused financial services group, RHJI also made a number of divestments from its legacy industrial portfolio. These included the sale of Niles Co. Ltd for $188 million in June 2011 and of Asahi Tec for €142 million and Phoenix Seagaia for €3.7 million in early 2012.
In 1999, ING Group acquired majority control of Deutsche Hypothekenbank through its purchase of BHF Bank. It sold its 83.7 percent stake in 2006 to BHF Bank (by then owned by Sal. Oppenheim ) and M. M. Warburg & Co. as well as private investors Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG and Josef H. Boquoi Familienstiftung.
On August 4, 2017, Brighthouse Financial completed its separation from MetLife and began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on August 7, 2017, under the symbol "BHF." Upon completion of the separation, MetLife retained a 19.2% stake in the company. [ 3 ]