Among the banks that were nationalised Canarias Bank, BanPro, Baninvest and Banco Real were liquidated, while Confederado, Banco Bolivar, Banorte, and Central Banco Universal, were nationalised and merged with the state-owned bank Banfoandes to form a new public investment bank called Banco Bicentenario. On 19 January 2009, Venezuela's Superintendent of Banks announced that it had taken over three small private banks, namely InverUnion, Banco Del Sol and Mi Casa, due to serious administrative problems.