After 102-year presence the financial institution withdrew its shares from the stock market, which today suffered another collapse and its index fell below 800 basis points.
Greece finds itself on a brink of major political events because MPs from the ruling party are preparing not to vote for the new economic measures and openly want the formation of a coalition government.
The Scientific Institute of the Syndicate of private sector employees (GSEE) provides unemployment rate from 26 percent in 2012 and over a million Greeks will remain outside the labor market.
"We will not surrender, the measures will not pass," calling out the angry mob, which met early afternoon in front of the University of Athens. Riots are to be expected.
The financial crisis poses risks, but also many opportunities, say Greek businessmen who are determined to defy the general negative sentiment in the country.