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Bank headquarters in Buenos Aires
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| Company type | Sociedad Anónima |
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| BCBA: BBAR NYSE: BBAR BMAD: XBRF MERVAL component | |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 14 October 1886; 137 years ago (1886-10-14) |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Key people | Jorge Carlos Bledel (CEO) |
| Products | Banking, Insurance |
| Revenue |  US$1.3 billion (2013) [1] |
| US$177.204,953 (2021)[2] | |
| Total assets | US$8.626.676 (2021) [2] |
Number of employees | 5,852 (2021) [2] |
| Parent | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria |
| Website | bbva.com.ar |
BBVA Argentina, formerly BBVA Banco Francés, is a financial institution in Argentina.
Founded on October 14, 1886, in Buenos AiresasBanco Francés del Río de la Plata (English: French Bank of the River Plate), it is the oldest private bank in Argentina. Its Beaux-Arts headquarters, designed by Jorge Bunge, were inaugurated in 1926.
Morgan Guaranty Trust acquired a 50% share in the bank in 1968, though the New York-based bank sold most of these to Alpargatas, a leading local industrial firm, a decade later.[3]
Despite the nation's economic woes during the 1980s, the Banco Francés expanded from 15 branches to 62 during the decade, and entered into a joint venture with Bankers Trust Company in 1986. Alpargatas sold its stake to local developer Eduardo Constantini in 1991, and entered into a second joint venture with Merrill Lynch in 1992.
In December 1996, Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, (now Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria), acquired the 99.9% of the common shares of Otar S.R.L., which was a major shareholder of Sud América Inversiones S.A., and holder of over 30% of the capital of Banco Francés, hence the BBVA in its name.[3]
As of December 2013[update] BBVA was the fifth-largest bank in Argentina and the third-largest private one, with deposits of US$6.7 billion and a lending portfolio of US$5.4 billion a(a roughly 6% domestic share in both areas). It maintained 245 branches and almost 1,400 ATMs in Argentina, and employed around 5,200 staff.[4] The bank announced in 2013 it would relocate its headquarters to the Consultatio Tower, in the Catalinas Norte office park, upon the Tower's completion in 2015.[5]
In 2019, BBVA unified its brand worldwide and BBVA Francés was renamed BBVA.[6]
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