The name, “Creditanstalt” rang a clear bell, and I Googled it, and sure enough like you said, when it went bust, and as per the Wikipedia entry on it, “...It declared bankruptcy on May 11, 1931. It has been said that this event resulted in a global financial crisis and ultimately the bank failures of the Great Depression”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creditanstalt
Interesting. So, what bank will have the dubious honor of being the Creditanstalt of the 21st Century?
........what bank will have the dubious honor of being the Creditanstalt of the 21st Century?........
“BNI (Bank Network Investments) is Italy’s oldest and forth largest bank” the bank noted above would seem to be a good candidate.