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• Installation of a Computer Centre which will gradually support an ever-growing spectrum of the operations of the Bank.
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View of the installation room of the
electronic computer of the Bank
Picture taken from the
Annual Report of the Bank, 1972
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• Savings-deposit passbooks’ updating is mechanically supported while the automated ''Teller'' system is rapidly developed. |
The NCR 42 machine whose use changes
radically the transaction procedures of the Bank.
Image taken from the internal communication publication “To Periodiko mas (Our Magazine)”, 1970
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• Yannis S. Costopoulos is named Managing Director.
• Change of name of the Bank from ''Commercial Credit Bank'' to ''Credit Bank''.
• Introduction of the new corporate logo that derives from the reverse of the first coin in Greece which was struck in Aegina. The obverse of the coin depicts a sea turtle, because of the island’s naval power, while the reverse portrays an irregular incuse square divided with prongs into quadrants.
• With the establishment of the Iraklion Branch in Crete, the Bank achieves presence in the 10 major cities of the country.
• In the context of the new corporate identity the Bank inaugurates the ''rural service'' with the launch of Mobile Branches serving remote areas. This original method for directly providing banking services to the public will be widely employed until the 1990s.
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Yannis S. Costopoulos
Managing Director of the Credit Bank
Part of a photograph
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Certificate of ten shares of the Credit Bank, 1977
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Aegina
Silver stater, 480-456 BC
Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection (3939)
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The new corporate logo of the Credit Bank
From the Corporate Identity manual,1972
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The listed building of the Iraklion Branch
in the early 1980s
Photograph
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Advertising brochure for the Mobile
Branches of the Bank, 1972
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• A new management structure is established which takes into account the growth perspective of the Bank.
• The completion of the new corporate identity offers the opportunity to introduce innovations into the Bank’s operations and to promote the modern banking concept.
• Participation in the first Mutual Fund ''Delos'' brokered through an ever-growing network of Branches.
• Demetrios P. Mantzounis begins his career at the Bank in the Loans Section of the Main Branch.
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Information brochure for the new
corporate identity of the Credit Bank, 1973
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Demetrios P. Mantzounis
Photograph taken from the internal
communication publication
“Astrapi (Lightning)”, 1977
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