The Hellenic Bankers Association UK's 31st dinner moved to Drapers' Hall, seat of a City guild founded in 1361, six centuries older than the association it hosted.
The Hellenic Bankers Association UK held its 31st annual dinner at Drapers’ Hall in the City on Saturday 13 June 2026, its first year under the roof of one of London’s oldest livery companies.
The Association exists to connect bankers and financial professionals of Hellenic origin working in the City, a network whose Chairman’s Circle includes figures such as Christos Megalou, chief executive of Piraeus Bank since 2017 and formerly of Eurobank. Its annual dinner is the one evening that network gathers in full, in black tie, for a night of networking, industry awards and a formal seated dinner rather than the smaller events the Association runs through the rest of the year.
The Worshipful Company of Drapers traces itself to an informal fellowship of wool and cloth merchants recorded as early as 1180. Formally founded as a guild in 1361 and granted its royal charter three years later, it was incorporated by charter in 1438 and became the first City company to be granted its own coat of arms. More than a hundred Lord Mayors of London have counted themselves among its members, and it still ranks third in order of precedence among the City’s 114 livery companies.
Under that same hall’s gilded ceiling, the Association’s 31st dinner carried the weight of a City institution six centuries older than itself.