Rockefeller | One of the most important financial institutions in Portugal (since 1875) John Rockefeller started with the Brochado and Pereira Coutinho families the business and financial operations in Portugal where they founded a bank. The "Lisboa & Açores Bank" was created in 1875 by the Brochado family and a group of financiers from Lisbon and the Azores, including the then Viscount of Carregoso, the Familia Lima Mayer, the Bensaúde family, the then Viscount of Olivais, the Pinto Leite family, the Pereira Coutinho family, among others. The first President was José da Cunha Brochado, also a member of the founding family. The Brochado and Pereira Coutinho family maintained a strategic alliance with the Rockefeller family, which allowed a competitive advantage to the remaining Iberian bankers and greater proximity to Portuguese investments and Portuguese emigrants residing in the American continent; the Bensaúde family was an important link between the Bank and the Azores. As a result of the family's influential shareholder structure, the bank was a powerful institution that even granted credits to the Portuguese State and contributed to help the promotion and development of the country. The Bank integrated the participation of other institutions, among which “Madeira Bank” and later the shareholding of the Ferreira da Silva family of CUF - Alfredo Ferreira da Silva (current Mello family) in "Banco Totta - Aliança" and started to have the denomination "Totta & Açores Bank". The institution later integrated the participation of the Botín family - shareholders of "Santander Bank" - through the "acquisition" of a stake held by the Champalimaud family in the bank and the current name "Santander Totta Bank" was adopted commercially. Toda, after two world wars, Rockefeller Holdings continues to be a financial platform in Europe and the World with interests in various sectors of activity. E-mail: info@therockefellerholdings.com