Minos Zombanakis, Chairman, Group for International Study & Evaluation

Minos Zombanakis is a pivotal figure in the history of the Euromarket. Known in the 1970s simply as "the Greek banker" (he was reckoned to be the only one of any note on the international scene), he was a combination of financial visionary, smooth salesman and masterful self-promoter. As one rather hostile magazine article remarked about his assault on the syndicated loans market: "It was one part nerve, one part histrionics and several parts pure fluff, but it did the job."

Minos Zombanakis is a pivotal figure in the history of the Euromarket. Known in the 1970s simply as “the Greek banker” (he was reckoned to be the only one of any note on the international scene), he was a combination of financial visionary, smooth salesman and masterful self-promoter. As one rather hostile magazine article remarked about his assault on the syndicated loans market: “It was one part nerve, one part histrionics and several parts pure fluff, but it did the job.

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