BDT Banco Digital de los Trabajadores, Banco Universal C.A. (previously Banco Bicentenario, Banco Universal C.A) is a bank based in
Caracas
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
. It was created in late 2009 through the merger with the existing state-owned bank Banfoandes, the banks Bolívar, Central and Confederado and after BaNorte Bank, nationalised as a result of the
2009 banking crisis.
The new bank holds around 20% of Venezuelan bank deposits.
See also
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Venezuelan banking crisis of 1994
The 1994 banking crisis occurred in Venezuela when a number of the banks of Venezuela were taken over by the government. The first to fail, in January 1994, was Banco Latino, the country's second-largest bank ($1.3 billion bailout). Later, two ban ...
References
External links
Official Website
Bicentenario
Government-owned companies of Venezuela
Banks established in 2009
Venezuelan companies established in 2009
companies based in Caracas
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