# Banco BPI

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{{Short description|Portuguese private bank, founded in 1981}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Banco BPI S.A.
| logo = Banco Português de Investimento logo.png
| type = [Subsidiary](/source/S.A._(corporation)) 
<!-- | traded_as  = {{Euronext|BPI}} -->| parent = [CaixaBank](/source/CaixaBank) (100%)
| key_people = [Fernando Ulrich](/source/Fernando_Ulrich) <small>([CEO](/source/chief_executive_officer))</small>, Artur Santos Silva <small>([Chairman](/source/Chairman))</small>
| industry = [Financial services](/source/Financial_services)
| products = [Retail](/source/Retail_banking) and [investment banking](/source/investment_banking), [insurance](/source/insurance), [asset management](/source/Investment_management), [private equity](/source/private_equity)
| revenue = €1.181 billion <small>(2015)</small><ref name="AR2015">{{cite web |url= http://bpi.bancobpi.pt/storage/download/ficheiro.54C95FF4-1295-42C6-A4F3-BBC3C15A35F2.1.pt.asp?id=17F6C65D-3E34-43E9-B04A-4DE49255A7E0 |title= Annual Report 2015 |access-date=13 June 2016 |publisher=Banco Português de Investimento}}</ref>
| net_income = €236.4 million <small>(2015)</small><ref name="AR2015" />
| aum = €17.91 billion <small>(end 2015)</small><ref name="AR2015" />
| assets = €41.913 billion <small>(June 2025)</small><ref name="AR2015" />
| equity = €2.835 billion <small>(end 2015)</small><ref name="AR2015" />
| num_employees = 4,354 <small>(June 2025)</small><ref name="AR2015" />
| homepage = [http://www.bancobpi.pt/ www.bancobpi.pt]
| foundation = 6 October 1981
| location = [Porto](/source/Porto), [Portugal](/source/Portugal)
}}

thumb|BPI branch at Praça Duque de Saldanha, Lisbon
'''Banco BPI''', formelly '''Banco Português de Investimento''' ({{IPA|pt|ˈbɐ̃ku puɾtuˈɣeʒ ðɨ ĩvɨʃtiˈmẽtu}}, "Portuguese Investment Bank"), is a Portuguese private [investment](/source/investment) [bank](/source/bank), currently owned by finance multinational [CaixaBank](/source/CaixaBank). Founded in 1981, it runs the banking business with companies, institutional and private clients. It is the third largest private Portuguese financial group with assets of €112.9 billion (in 2009). Chairman and CEO is [Fernando Ulrich](/source/Fernando_Ulrich). The bank is headquartered in [Porto](/source/Porto).

The commercial banking group Banco BPI has more than 1.8 million customers, individuals, businesses and institutions. Through its multi-channel distribution network with 674 branches, 30 investment centers and branches, the bank specializes in home loans through a network of outside companies. The bank is primarily active in Portugal and [Spain](/source/Spain), [Angola](/source/Angola) and [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique). In Angola, BPI is the market leader in corporate banking and its activity reached a 25% market share on its 50.1% stake in Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) with 750,000 customers (as at December 2010). In Mozambique, the BPI maintains a 30 percent stake in the bank BCI Fomento.

On 25 October 2007, BPI offered a merger proposal with [Millennium BCP](/source/Millennium_BCP), the largest private bank of Portugal. However, the board of BCP rejected the proposal.

Until 2017 the bank's shares were listed in the  [Euronext Lisbon](/source/Euronext_Lisbon)'s [PSI-20](/source/PSI-20) [stock index](/source/stock_index). CaixaBank raised its stake from 45% to 84.5% in 2017, took the bank private, and then acquired all the remaining shares the following year.  {{As of|2018|12}}, 100 percent of the shares are held by the Spanish bank [CaixaBank](/source/CaixaBank).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bpi.bancobpi.pt/index.asp?riIdArea=AreaAccionistas&riChgLng=1&riLang=en&riId=AAccionista&riIdTopo=|title=Shareholders Structure|publisher=BPI|access-date=21 April 2012}}</ref>

==Logo==
{{cns|date=April 2021|The logo represents an [orange blossom](/source/orange_blossom). Oranges are a symbol of the Portuguese economic expansion, as some countries had contact with the Portuguese traders involving the fruit; in some languages such as [Arabic](/source/Arabic_language), [Ladin](/source/Ladin_language), [Albanian](/source/Albanian_language), [Turkish](/source/Turkish_language) and [Romanian](/source/Romanian_language), the word orange is similar to the word Portugal. When it was launched, it was the most expensive logo design of a Portuguese company.}}

==See also==
* [List of banks in Portugal](/source/List_of_banks_in_Portugal)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Banks}}
*{{Official website|http://www.bancobpi.pt/}}

{{Banks of Portugal}}
{{PSI-20 companies}}
{{Members of Euro Banking Association}}
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Category:Banks of Portugal
Category:Banks established in 1981
Category:Companies based in Porto
Category:CaixaBank
Category:Banks under direct supervision of the European Central Bank
Category:Portuguese companies established in 1981
Category:Portuguese subsidiaries of foreign companies

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