On this webpage, the Bank of Greece publishes and regularly updates lists of:
- credit or financial institutions having their head office in Greece;
- credit or financial institutions having their head office in another Member State of the EU, which carry out any of the activities listed in Article 11(2) of Law 4261/2014, including lending and guarantee activities, under the EU passport regime. The EU passport enables credit institutions authorised in a Member State to operate in another Member State under the freedom of establishment or the freedom to provide services without an establishment; it is based on a supervisory framework which is harmonised across the EU and applies in all EU Member States.
Information about credit institutions conducting business in European Economic Area countries is also available in the register published by the European Banking Authority (EBA Credit Institutions Register), for:
- credit institutions authorised in EEA countries;
- branches of credit institutions authorised in an EEA country and operating in another EEA country;
- non-EEA branches (i.e. branches of credit institutions having their head office in a third country) authorised to operate in EEA countries.
Also included in the scope of Bank of Greece supervision are private insurance and reinsurance undertakings. Currently, the following types of undertakings are active in the Greek private insurance market:
- Sociétés Anonymes incorporated in Greece, i.e.
- two life insurance undertakings;
- fourteen non-life insurance undertakings; and
- seventeen mixed-activity insurance undertakings.
- Greek branches of third-country (non-EU/EEA) insurers
- Insurance undertakings incorporated in other countries of the EU/EEA, operating in Greece under the freedom of establishment (through a branch) or under the freedom to provide services)
- Mutual associations