Banca Popolare Dell'Emilia Romagna (BPER Banca)

Formerly known as Banca Popolare del-Emilia Romanga S.C.

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On the “List of Corresponding Banks for Transferring the Fees” for payment to the 10^th International Conference on Magnetic and Superconducting Materials (“MSM17”), which took place at the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran on September 18-21, 2017.  (Sharif University Website, “MSM17 [Corresponding Banks Fees];” “MSM17”).

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Despite hopes of a new dawn for Iran's economy after nuclear-related sanctions were lifted, major Western banks are reluctant to do business with the Islamic republic for fear of US retribution. President Hassan Rouhani has said that to reach the target of eight-percent growth needed to modernise the industrial sector and relaunch the hobbled economy, Iran needs up to $50 billion in foreign investment every year. But without the big foreign banks, that looks impossible. "For the moment, the little European banks have agreed to work with us," said Parviz Aghili, head of the private Middle East Bank in Tehran. They include banks from Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, he said without naming them. "But not a single medium-sized or big bank has so far agreed to do it," he added... The limited number of institutions that do deal with the Islamic republic include Raiffeisen Bank and Erste Bank from Austria, Mediobanca and Banco Popolare of Italy, Germany's EIH, KfW and AKA banks, Belgium's KBC, ING of the Netherlands and Turkey's Halk, according to a banking expert in Tehran. "These banks have established working relations with the Iranian banks to open letters of credit for fairly small sums of 10, 20 or 50 million dollars." But they lack the resources to finance big projects like the deal struck between Iran and European aircraft manufacturer Airbus for 118 airplanes, or oil and gas development projects, the expert said. (AFP, "Iran banking hobbled by Western reluctance to engage," 9/13/2016).

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Banca Popolare Dell'Emilia Romagna lists as a service to its clients the "Transfer of Funds to and from Iran in accordance with EU Regulation 961/2010."  The bank lists a cost of €50 for "activation of notification procedures" and €200 for "activation of the authorization request procedure." (Company Website)

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On March 12, 2011 Banca Popolare Dell'Emilia Romagna co-hosted an event to promote commerical activity and economic cooperation between Italian companies and Iran.