Stack's Bowers Galleries offered over 800 lots in its MIF Maastricht Currency Fair auction held after the Netherlands event with a 1944 Palestine Currency Board note bringing top bid of $84,000.
Ευρωκίνηση 3/9/2021 Athens News Agency
ATHENS The Hellenic Bank Association (HBA) expressed its condolences on Tuesday over the death of Yannis S. Costopoulos, citing him with a sector description as the patriarch of bankers for his service at the helm of Alpha Bank and his contribution to the contemporary Greek banking system.
Costopoulos, a past president of the HBA, was born in 1938 and had studied naval engineering at King s College at Durham University. His banking career started in 1963 at the Commercial Credit Bank (Emborikis Pisteos). Originating from a family of bankers, he was associated with the history of Alpha Bank from 1996 to 2014, when he was recognized as emeritus chairman of the board.