Background
Enrique Godoy Sayán was born in Lima, Peru in 1902 to Raúl Godoy y Agostini and Angélica Sayánew york Palacios.
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Enrique Godoy Sayán was born in Lima, Peru in 1902 to Raúl Godoy y Agostini and Angélica Sayánew york Palacios.
He recovered his family"s nobility title Marques de la Cañada Hermosa de San Bartolomé. He was sent to Cuba to study at the prestigious and avant-garde school Colegio Inglés de Marianao in 1912. He founded Banco Godoy-Sayán de Ahorro y Capitalización in 1954.
Godoy revolutionized the insurance industry in Cuba by introducing the fire and allied lines insurance into the island.
After the Cuban Revolution, he moved to Manhattan, New York, where Banco Godoy-Sayan had its United States offices, in 60 Wall Street. Meanwhile, the Godoa Sayan insurance company was seized by the Fidel Castro government in October, 1960.
He returned to Spain in 1960 as the European representative of the banking group Crestar Bank, then United Virginia Bank, now merged with Suntrust Bank. In 1964 he bought the financial group American Broadcasting Company de Crédito, the first financial group to introduce cr cards in Spain.
