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Bank Sepah (Persian: بانک سپه, Bānke Sepah) is an Iranian bank. It was established in 1925 (corresponding to 1304 in the Iranian calendar) as the first Iranian bank. Its first branch, in Tehran, opened that year. The bank also has branches in Frankfurt, Paris and Rome as well as a subsidiary, Bank Sepah International plc, in London.[2] Sepah Bank has recently merged four other Iranian banks and one credit institution: Ansar Bank, Mehr Eghtesad Bank, Hekmat Iranian Bank, Ghavamin Bank and Kosar Credit Institution.[citation needed] The Omid Bank app is product of Bank Sepah.[3][4]
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 Bank Sepah headquarters in Tehran | |
| Company type | Government-owned corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Banking, Financial services |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Founder | Iranian Army Pension Fund |
| Headquarters | Negin Sepah Building, Nowrouz Street, Africa Highway, Argentina Square, Tehran, Iran, Tehran , Iran |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ayatollah Ebrahimi (CEO) |
| Services | Credit cards, consumer banking, corporate banking, mortgage loans |
| Revenue |   37,153,487 IRR (2014)*[1] |
| 20,701,827 IRR (2014)*[1] | |
| 490,892 IRR (2014)*[1] | |
| Total assets | 500,319,226 IRR (2014)*[1] |
| Total equity | 72,427,585 IRR (2014)*[1] |
Number of employees | 18,277 |
| Subsidiaries | Bank Sepah International plc |
| Website | www.banksepah.ir |
| Footnotes / references * Amounts in IRR million | |
History
editBank Sepah was officially founded on 4 May 1925, with its first branch in Sepah Street in Tehran. Initially, an investment of 3,883,950 Iranian Rials was made from the military ranked personnel pension fund and the bank was set to exclusively provide military personnel with financial aids such as loans. With further increase in their domain of services, the headquarters for the bank was moved to a larger building in Homayoon st. Starting on 15 March 1926, with opening of another branch in Rasht, Bank Sepah began providing services not only to the military personnel but to the more general public such as businessmen.[5]
US, UN sanctions
editSanctions were imposed on Bank Sepah by the United States on 9 January 2007, due to Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.[8] The United States claimed that the bank assisted Iran in developing missiles that could carry nuclear weapons.[9] and all its branches and subsidiaries in Italy, UK, France and Germany[10] will have their assets frozen by the United States in order to prevent Iran from constructing nuclear weapons.[9] The official website[11] of Bank Sepah in Iran reacted by mentioning the American resolution "fabricated statements based on purely hypothetical pretext, made out of political inducements" and promised that the bank will "continue with its efficient performance with due observance of internal and international regulations as before."
On the same basis, further sanctions have also been imposed by the United Nations through Resolution 1747 of 29 March 2007 coinciding with the arrest by the Iranian Government of some British army personnel in the Persian Gulf.
In early 2016, following the talks of P5 1 with Iran on the Nuclear program of Iran, and the resultant Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, sanctions against Bank Sepah were lifted.
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b c d e Bank Sepah Financial Statements Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Bank Sepah, 24 March 2014
- ^ Financial Services Forecast, Economist Intelligence Unit, August 18, 2008
- ^ "Omid Bank". omidboom.ir.
- ^ حیدری, هانا (2024-03-16). "سامانه بانکداری قرضالحسنه دیجیتال بانک سپه رونمایی شد". راه پرداخت (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "سالروز تاسیس نخستین بانک ایرانی". donya-e-eqtesad.com. Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ "مهاجرت بانک سپه به کربنکینگ داتین آغاز شد - پیوست". 9 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ "بهره برداری از راهکار جامع بانکی داتین در بانک سپه آغاز شد". Archived from the original on 2021-01-17. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ "BBC NEWS - World - Middle East - US blacklists Iranian state bank". news.bbc.co.uk. 9 January 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
- ^ a b http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16420611.htm [dead link]
- ^ "Bank Sepah - Branchs". Archived from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
- ^ "بانک سپه". Archived from the original on 2007-06-06. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
External links
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Media related to Bank Sepah at Wikimedia Commons