Bank Leumi

Leumi partnering with Aspire for tech employee stock plans

Leumi partners with Aspire for a trust firm (51% stake) to manage tech employee stock options & M&A trust services, entering a field long dominated by private investment houses.

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Maya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech

Israeli tech companies raise $3.6 billion in Q3, up 53% year over year

The leumi app is available in 5 languages.

Banking made more accessible, in every language

Bank Leumi app adds Arabic, Russian and French in Israeli banking first.

Bank Leumi app adds Arabic, Russian and French in Israeli banking first


‘We’ve got to change the norms’

American-Israeli Eliezer Jaffe works to bring interest-free loans to first-time home buyers.

ELIEZER JAFFE, founder and president of the Israel Free Loan Association, wants to help first-time home buyers with their down payments

'Fortune' ranks Israeli Bank Leumi CEO among most powerful women

Russak-Aminoach, the only Israeli on the list, was ranked 43rd on the 50-strong list dominated by countries such as the UK, China and Switzerland.

Bank Leumi CEO and President Rakefet Russak-Aminoach

Kahlon, Flug strike deal on financial sector reform

Proposal would spin credit card companies out from biggest banks, allow them to become banks in their own right.

Moshe Kahlon

NGO: No protection for Israeli banks with PA ties in terrorism lawsuits

Last February, a US jury handed down a $655.5 million judgment in wrongful death damages against the PA in a case brought by 10 American families that lost relatives in Palestinian terrorist attacks.

A WOMAN uses an automated teller machine outside a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv three years ago.

Knesset passes limits on finance executives' pay

The law limits tax breaks on executive salaries at NIS 2.5 million a year, or 44 times the salary of the lowest-paid worker.

A WOMAN uses an automated teller machine outside a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv three years ago.

First faxes, now e-check; Knesset paves way for cashing checks electronically

Customers will now be able too cash checks using their smart phones instead of going to deposit them in bank branches, and the funds will be quicker to clear.

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A BDS victory - US church pension board blacklists Israeli banks

The announcement was reported by 'The New York Times'.

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Israel's Bank Leumi CEO lands spot on 'Fortune' list of most power women

Rakefet Russak-Aminoach ranks in at spot 23 on American business magazine's annual listing for the Europe, Mideast and Africa region.

Bank Leumi CEO and President Rakefet Russak-Aminoach

Reforms – prospects and impediments

Israel’s last elections proved how right David Ben-Gurion was when he said that, in Israel, whoever does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

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Ex-deputy finance minister favors prosecuting Bank Leumi

In December 2014, Bank Leumi agreed to pay $400 million to settle two separate investigations into whether it helped its US clients evade taxes.

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