Private company

Banco Industrial de Venezuela

Bank of Venezuela

Banco Industrial de Venezuela (Industrial Bank of Venezuela), or BIV, was a Venezuelan state bank.2 It is headquartered in Caracas.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Banco Industrial de Venezuela (Industrial Bank of Venezuela), or BIV, was a Venezuelan state bank.2

The story

The BIV was established in 1937 with 60% state and 40% private capital investment. The state gradually gained full control, and in the 1960s and 1970s, the bank was an instrument in the government's import substitution policy of industrialization.

In May 2009, the former president of the BIV, Luis Rafael Quiro, was arrested for corruption. At the time, the bank was the largest state-run financial institution in Venezuela. On February 11, 2016, the bank's assets were transferred to Banco del Tesoro.

From Wikipedia’s article on Banco Industrial de Venezuela, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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