Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg S.A. is the oldest private bank in Luxembourg. It offers commercial and corporate banking services, and was the country's third-largest employer by 2011, with 3,640 employees. Since 2018, it has been majority-owned by China-headquartered Legend Holdings. The bank has offices in Luxembourg, Switzerland and China.
Head office of BIL on 69, route d’Esch in Luxembourg City
Former BIL head office on 2, Boulevard Royal, built in 1902 and purchased in 1998 by the newly created Central Bank of Luxembourg
The BIL head office with Dexia branding, photographed in 2008
Émile Pereire and his brother Isaac Pereire were major figures in the development of France's finance and infrastructure during the Second French Empire. The Pereire brothers challenged the dominance of the Rothschilds in continental European finance, known at the time as haute finance. Their attempt was temporarily successful, and even though it collapsed in the late 1860s, it contributed to a more developed and vibrant economic landscape. Like the Rothschilds, the Pereires were Jews, but unlike them, they were Sephardi of Portuguese origin.
Isaac and Émile Pereire
Steamer Pereire-Lebreton of the Pereire's Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
Eugène Pereire by artist Charles Louis Gratia, founder of the Banque Transatlantique
Villa Philipson in Pistoia, Italy, built by Edoardo Philipson and Sophie Rodrigues Pereire, parents of Dino Philipson