BPI

The BPI Group - headed by Banco BPI - is a financial and multi-specialist group, focusing on the banking business, with a comprehensive spectrum of financial services and products for corporates, institutional and individual Customers. The Group's commercial bank Banco BPI serves more than 1.4 million Customers - Individuals, Companies and Institutions - through its multi-channel distribution network comprising 674 retail branches, 30 investment centres, branches specialising in home loans (20), a network of external promoters (10 599), structures dedicated to the Corporate (43 centres) and Institutional Customers (6 centres), telephone banking (BPI Directo) and a homebanking service (BPI Net). In Angola, BPI is the leader in commercial banking activity with a market share close to 25% through its 51%-stake in Banco de Fomento. BFA served a universe of 470k customers at 30 June 2008. The Banco Português de Investimento, BPI Group's original matrix, develops the business of Investment Banking - Equities, Corporate Finance and Private Banking - in the geographic scope of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the equities franchise in France and Africa. In Asset Management, the BPI holds very important positions in the management of investment funds, pension funds and life insurance-capitalization, which distributes through Banco BPI and the Banco Português de Investimento.