Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Overview

Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires is Argentine commercial bank + Government of the City of Buenos Aires fully owned + one of Argentina's oldest banks since May 23 1878 + BUEPP wallet pioneer [1, ar-cro].

History

May 23 1878 — Monte de Piedad de Buenos Aires founded distinctive Argentine banking heritage.

1904 — Renamed Banco Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

1996 — Renamed Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires post-autonomy of the City of Buenos Aires.

2014 — Banco Ciudad mobile banking app launch.

2019 — BUEPP digital wallet launch by Banco Ciudad as Argentine multi-bank wallet.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Argentine commercial bank; Government of the City of Buenos Aires fully owned).

Major shareholders: Government of the City of Buenos Aires (Argentine autonomous city government) fully owned.

Regulators: BCRA.

Technical integration

BUEPP mobile app (iOS + Android) + Banco Ciudad mobile app + bancociudad.com.ar online + Banco Ciudad branch network across City of Buenos Aires + Banco Ciudad Visa + Mastercard cards; AR CBU + AR CVU + Transferencias 3.0.

Implementations & partners

Major Argentine banking + payments competitors: [[banco-nacion]] (Banco Nación Argentina; Argentine federal government fully owned; Argentina's largest commercial bank by assets) + [[banco-provincia]] (Banco Provincia; Province of Buenos Aires fully owned; Argentina's second-largest commercial bank by assets) + [[bbva-argentina]] (BBVA Argentina; BCBA: BBAR + NYSE: BBAR; BBVA Spain ~66.55% controlling) + [[banco-galicia]] (Banco Galicia; Grupo Financiero Galicia BCBA: GGAL holding parent; MODO co-founder) + [[banco-macro]] (Banco Macro; Argentine commercial bank) + [[banco-santander-ar]] (Santander Argentina; Banco Santander Spain subsidiary) + [[banco-supervielle]] (Banco Supervielle; BCBA: SUPV + NYSE: SUPV; Grupo Supervielle holding parent) + modo (MODO; Argentine multi-bank wallet) + [[mercado-pago]] (Mercado Pago; Argentina's largest digital wallet by users; MercadoLibre group).

Regulator: BCRA.

Status

Active, Argentine commercial bank + Government of the City of Buenos Aires fully owned + one of Argentina's oldest banks since May 23 1878 + BUEPP wallet pioneer [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 Banco Ciudad — official
• 2 Banco Ciudad — Wikipedia
• ar-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/AR-argentina.md

Source

Biography extracted from banco-ciudad.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.