BRD - Groupe Société Générale
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Banca Română pentru Dezvoltare | |
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Type | Public |
Founded | 1923 as Societatea Naţională de Credit Industrial |
Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania |
Industry | Finance and Insurance |
Products | Commercial banking, Investment banking, Private banking, Asset management |
Website | www.brd.ro |
BRD - Groupe Société Générale is a Romanian bank in which the French Société Générale financial group holds a majority stake of 58.33%. It was rebranded after SG bought Banca Română pentru Dezvoltare (Romanian Development Bank) from the Romanian State in 1999. It is currently the second largest bank by assets (about 8.7bn €) in Romania. It has over 2.2 million clients and around 600 branches and recently moved its headquarters into a new building on Victoriei Square in the north side of Bucharest, into one of the tallest towers in the country as of 2005.
BRD was founded in 1990 as a commercial bank by taking over assets of the former Investment Bank of Romania.
Since 12/10/2004, General Manager of BRD - Groupe Société Générale is Mr. Patrick Gelin.
[edit] External links
- (Romanian)/(English)/(French) Official site
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