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


Warburg Pincus finalizes $700m. Leumi Card acquisition

Based in Bnei Brak, Leumi Card has issued more than 2.6 million credit cards and offers merchant acquiring services to over 40,000 businesses.

Pedestrians are reflected in the windows of a branch of Bank Leumi, Israel's second-largest lender, in Tel Aviv, Israel

Bank Leumi’s Ran Gavriel Zivan on creatively solving problems in a new way

Around five years ago, Bank Leumi established a new organizational structure, in which the Digital Banking Division was born, to implement its new innovation strategy.

RAN GAVRIEL ZIVAN, head of Innovation and Digital Investments at Bank Leumi. (Courtesy)

Innovation in banking

Bank Leumi’s Ran Gavriel Zivan on creatively solving problems in new way.

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The intersection between banking and hi-tech

Israeli hi-tech has reached impressive heights in recent years.

Leumi Tech CEO Yifat Oron.

Unique in the landscape

LeumiTech CEO Yifat Oron explains how the bank is boosting Israel’s hi-tech success.

YIFAT ORON, CEO of LeumiTech, Leumi Group’s hi-tech subsidiary

Leumi Tech CEO: Looking at things differently

Hi-tech and start-ups in Israel require special attention and treatment, says Yifat Oron

Hi-tech employees attend Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in Tel Aviv last month, held for the first time in Israel

How Equifax’s data breach threatens Israeli security

US consumer credit company hack could provide intelligence data for Iran, says expert

CREDIT-REPORTING company Equifax Inc. corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 8

Reports of money laundering on the rise in Israel

Money laundering - the practice of concealing the origins of illegally-obtained money - helps finance terrorist and criminal groups.

Shekel money bills

One-on-one with an Israeli revolutionary

Some consider political activist and criminal lawyer Barak Cohen a violent bully; for others he is a source of inspiration. In an interview he explains more about his tactics and offers advice.

Israelis take part in a demonstration against austerity measures in Tel Aviv in 2013

Knesset seeks expanded subpoena powers to probe banks’ secret deals

Lawmakers seek expanded powers to force banks to reveal confidential information about customers.

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