A public bank is a bank, a financial institution, in which a state or public actors are the owners. It is a company under state control.
Public or 'state-owned' banks proliferated globally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as vital agents of industrialisation in capitalist and socialist countries alike; as late as 2012, state banks still owned and controlled up to 25 per cent of total global banking assets.
Public banks by States
Argentina
- Banco de la Nación Argentina
- Banco Provincia
- Banco Ciudad
Australia
- Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Brazil
- Caixa Econômica Federal
- Bank of Brazil
Chile
- Banco del Estado de Chile
France
- La Banque Postale (Created on January 1, 2006 through the transfer of financial services of La Poste)
- Caisse des Depots et Consignations
- Crédit Municipal de Paris
Germany
- German public bank
Iceland
- Landsbankinn
- Ãslandsbanki
Italy
- Tavola Pecuniaria, first historical model of the system of public banks (15th century)
- Banca d'Italia
Malaysia
- Bank Simpanan Nasional
Norway
- DnB NOR
Portugal
- Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Russia
- Vnesheconombank
Spain
- Argentaria
U.S.
- Bank of North Dakota
- Export-Import Bank
References
External links
- Public Banking Institute, USA
