Joseph Safra at a past event in November 2002. [File]Lebanese-Brazilian financier Joseph Safra, who built a banking empire spanning from Brazil to Switzerland and a fortune that made him the world's wealthiest banker, has died at the age of 82, Banco Safra said. Safra was credited with making Banco Safra Brazil's eighth largest bank by assets. Joseph Safra's predecessors banked the Ottoman Empire's caravan trade between the Syrian city of Aleppo, Alexandria in Egypt and Constantinople in Turkey. Joseph Safra is survived by his wife Vicky and his four children.

Source: Standard Digital December 11, 2020 07:41 UTC