Banque d'Orient

'Bank of the East') was a bank active in the Eastern Mediterranean with seat in Athens, Greece.

[1] It was originally founded as a joint venture between NBG and the Berlin-based Nationalbank für Deutschland.

[2]: 72 By 1915, the Banque d'Orient had operations in Alexandria in Egypt, Salonica in Northern Greece, and Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire.

[4] In 1932, in the wake of the European banking crisis of 1931, the NBG took full control of the Banque d'Orient and integrated it into its operations.

In the 2010s, activist Artemis Sorras [el], leader of the ultra-nationalist Assembly of Greeks, claimed ownership of assets from the Banque d'Orient in a publicity stunt that was quickly dismissed by the Greek authorities.