Georgios Zanias new President of the Hellenic Bank Association

The Board of Directors of the Hellenic Bank Association (HBA), astatine its gathering of October 31, 2025, unanimously elected Mr. Georgios Zanias, Chairman of the Board of Eurobank and emeritus prof astatine AUEB, arsenic its caller President, and Mr. Christos Megalou, CEO of Piraeus Bank, arsenic Vice President.

The Members of the Board and the acting General Director of HBA warmly thanked the emeritus prof of the University of Piraeus and Chairman of the Board of the National Bank, Mr. Gikas Hardouvelis for:

• his important practice of HBA astatine important events successful the fiscal sector, done presentations and important nationalist statements/speeches connected the existent authorities of the Greek banking system.
• strengthening HBA’s extroversion and connection strategy and the constructive dialog with the State.
• the fantabulous practice with each members of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee and the General Directorate of the HBA, arsenic good arsenic for the sizeable clip helium devoted to HBA business.

They besides thanked the Vice President Mr. Fokion Karavias for his highly important publication to the enactment of the HBA, his fantabulous practice with the Chairman of the Board and each its members, and his indispensable publication to the modernization of HBA’s enactment and nationalist image.

The caller President, Mr. Georgios Zanias, stated, among different things:

“I convey the Members of the Board of Directors for their trust. I americium pleased to instrumentality to the Association for a 2nd clip arsenic President, succeeding my distinguished colleague, Mr. Gikas Hardouvelis. In my archetypal word arsenic Chairman (2012–2015) the Greek banking assemblage was being tested successful each of its cardinal indicators owed to the fiscal crisis. Later, arsenic a Board subordinate of HBA (2019–2022) I had the pleasance to witnesser the restart of the betterment of the Greek system and the Banks. Today, the motion is affirmative and hopeful. Nevertheless, the challenges astatine planetary level remain, and are many. HBA’s enactment has been importantly upgraded successful caller years, the Association is pursuing developments and monitors existent affairs astatine some nationalist and EU level. I undertake for a 2nd clip the acquainted relation of President of the Board successful a present antithetic economical and integer situation and I perpetrate to lend to the further upgrade of HBA’s work.”