Founded in October 2009 by Petros Leotsakos, a journalist and banking editor who serves as General Director and 100% shareholder, bankingnews.gr came into being as an independent Greek economic and financial news platform built around the observation that Greece's economy is deeply bank-centered, its stock market is heavily weighted toward banking stocks, and its society is highly dependent on bank credit. Leotsakos assembled a team of independent journalists with the stated goal of providing truthful, dependency-free financial reporting to Greek readers at a time when the country was entering a severe debt crisis. Today, bankingnews.gr operates under BANKINGNEWS MONOPROSOPI A.E., headquartered at Leoforos Mesogaion 15 in Athens, Greece, and has expanded into a small media group that also includes energy news site worldenergynews.gr and sports site bnsports.gr. Today, bankingnews.gr is mainly focused on Greek banking sector news, stock exchange coverage, economic analysis, international financial news, and political economy from their headquarters in Athens, Greece. One interesting fact: Despite launching in October 2009 at the very beginning of Greece's catastrophic sovereign debt crisis, bankingnews.gr has operated continuously for over 15 years through one of the most turbulent economic periods in modern European history, growing from a single banking-focused website into a small media group covering energy and sports alongside its flagship financial coverage.