The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1984 (11. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1984-01-01 / 1. szám
Deak-Perera clerks have the whole world at their fingertips. international banking at The New York Law School, a PhD from a Swiss university, a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Futures Exchange of the New York Stock Exchange, and a member of The Banking Board of the American Gas Association in Washington, D.C. Mr. Deak is an economist who emigrated from Hungary and Switzerland to the United States in the late 1930’s and built his reputation in the post-World War II economy by arranging complicated barter agreements among governments. Discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946 with the rank of Major, he started to build his network that today has over 70 offices worldwide. In the Western Hemisphere, Deak- Perera is the oldest and largest foreign currency exchange firm and retail distributor of precious metals. The firm also has controlling interest in two U.S. banks and banks in Switzerland and Austria. • At 78, Mr. Deak runs three to five miles every day, and up to ten miles on weekends! Deak-Perera buys and sells currency and 120 different kinds of travelers checks in just as many languages. They sell gold bullion, gold coins, gold certificates, and gold investment jewelry. They are, in fact, the largest retailers of gold coins and foreign currency in the United States. But that is not all! Deak-Perera handles foreign payments and check collections; promotional coins and banknotes; and provides specialized financial services for business and industry, banks, and governmental agencies. They also operate an International Investor Service and the Deak National Bank, which is a personal service bank with international clientele. But that is not all! There is ~ the Deak-Perera International Banking Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut, the Bankhaus Deak & Co., Ltd. in Vienna, Austria, and the Foreign Commerce Bank in Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland. It took quite a man to put this kind of world together. That man was Nicholas L. Deak. Nicholas L. Deak, the Man He’s a scholar and a soldier. An activist and an entrepreneur. But most of all, he’s the founder and moving spirit behind Deak-Perera, the largest foreign currency exchange firm in the world. Among the foremost international monetary experts, Nicholas Deak is an adjunct professor of Nicholas L. Deak is 78 years old and still jogs three to five miles every day and up to ten miles on weekends. January 1984 Page 13
