Alpha Bank

Alpha Bank S.A.
Αλφα Τράπεζα Α.Ε.

Type	Anonymi Etairia
Traded as	:  OTC Pink:
Industry	Financial services
Founded	1879
Headquarters	Athens, Greece
Number of locations	929 worldwide branches(Q3 2015) (627 Branches in Greece)
Key people	Vasileios Rapanos (Chairman) Demetrios Mantzounis (CEO)
Products	Retail Investment Corporate Banking Asset Management
Revenue	€2.303 billion (2015)
Operating income	-€1.153 billion (2015)
Profit	-€2.206 billion (2015)
Total assets	€69.3 billion (2015)
Total equity	€8.673 billion (2015)
Owner	Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (11.01%)
Number of employees	13,847(Greece:9,678, Abroad:4,169) (2015)
Subsidiaries	Alpha Bank Cyprus Ltd Alpha Bank Romania Alpha Bank Beograd Alpha Bank Skopje Alpha Bank Albania Alpha Bank London Alpha Insurance Ltd
Capital ratio	16% (CET1 fully loaded Basel III)
Website	www.alpha.gr

Alpha Bank is the fourth largest Greek bank by total assets but the largest by market capitalization of 2.45 billion euros as of 8 February 2017. It has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout Southeastern Europe (see "International expansion" below). Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning. Currently Ioannis Costopoulos, who is the grandson of the original founder John F. Costopoulos, and the nephew of Stavros Costopoulos, Foreign Minister in the government of Georgios Papandreou, is the honorary Chairman. On January 16, 2015, Alpha Bank requested Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) from the Bank of Greece.

In addition, Alpha Bank has a branch in London and a finance company, Alpha Finance US, in New York. The latter does not exist anymore.

The company is listed on the Athens Exchange with stock symbol ALPHA; the ISIN is GRS015013006. As of 11 August 2015, the number of securities outstanding and the number of securities listed is 12769059858 (around 12.7 billion). The stock is one of the 25 stocks in the FTSE/Athex Large Cap index (11 August 2015).