Bank of Greece
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Who they are
Greece's central bank and a member of the Eurosystem. It has supervised the private insurance market since 1 December 2010.
What they do
Carries out prudential supervision of credit institutions and certain other financial entities within the Single Supervisory Mechanism, where the ECB directly supervises four significant Greek banks (Alpha Bank, Eurobank, National Bank of Greece and Piraeus Bank). It authorises payment and e-money institutions, supervises insurers and insurance distributors, checks the AML/CFT compliance of supervised entities, imposes administrative sanctions, and runs a regulatory sandbox and a FinTech Innovation Hub.
Key laws & regulations issued
- Guideline Executive Committee Act 242/4/11.06.2025 — adoption of EBA guidelines EBA/GL/2024/11 (travel rule) on information requirements for transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets 2025
- Regulation Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA), as applied by the Bank of Greece 2023
- Regulation Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA), as applied by the Bank of Greece 2022
- Regulation Executive Committee Act 189/1/14.05.2021 — terms and conditions for the establishment and operation of the Bank of Greece Regulatory Sandbox 2021
- Regulation Executive Committee Act 164/2/13.12.2019 — authorisation of payment and e-money institutions 2019
- Act Law 4583/2018 (Government Gazette A 212) — insurance distribution, transposing Directive (EU) 2016/97 2018
- Act Νόμος 4537/2018 (Government Gazette A 84/15.05.2018) — Ενσωμάτωση στην ελληνική νομοθεσία της Οδηγίας 2015/2366/ΕΕ για τις υπηρεσίες πληρωμών και άλλες διατάξεις (Law 4537/2018 — Transposition of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 on payment services and other provisions) 2018
- Act Law 4364/2016 (Government Gazette A 13, 5.2.2016) — adaptation of Greek legislation to Directive 2009/138/EC (Solvency II) and other provisions 2016
Enforcement by this regulator
| Date | Entity | Action | Penalty | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2026 | NBL MONEY TRANSFER PAYMENT FOUNDATION S.A. (payment institution) | Licence Action | — | official |
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