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Founded in 1694 to raise money for King William IIIs war against France. The Bank of England is the ...

The worlds oldest central bank, founded in 1668 as Riksens Stnders Bank. Originally established to i...

The Bank of Amsterdam, founded in 1609, was the first true public bank. It accepted deposits of coin...

Founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 to stabilize the French economy after the Revolutionary assign...

The most powerful of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. The New York Fed implements monetary policy throu...

Originally the Bank of Italy, founded by A P Giannini in San Francisco in 1904 to serve immigrants. ...

The largest bank in the United States by assets, with roots tracing to 1799. The Bank of the Manhatt...

Founded in Berlin in 1870 to finance German foreign trade. Deutsche Bank funded the Baghdad Railway,...

Switzerlands largest bank, formed through the 1998 merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Ban...

Founded in 1856 to finance Switzerlands industrialization. Credit Suisse pioneered the Swiss model o...

One of the oldest British banks, tracing roots to 1690 when John Freame began trading as a goldsmith...

Founded in Hong Kong in 1865 as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to finance trade betwe...

Founded in Birmingham in 1765 by John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd as a button manufacturing business th...

Established on June 1, 1998, in Frankfurt to manage the euro and monetary policy for the eurozone. T...

Founded in 1882 after the Meiji Restoration to stabilize the Japanese currency and financial system....

Founded in 1948 as the central bank of the Peoples Republic of China, established before the PRC its...

The central bank of Morocco, established in 1907 after the Algeciras Conference. Originally the Stat...

Founded in 1975 by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation with headquarters in Jeddah. The IsDB pro...

Founded by Marcus Goldman, a German Jewish immigrant, in 1869 as a commercial paper dealer in New Yo...

Formed in 1935 when J P Morgan partners Henry Morgan and Harold Stanley left to create a separate se...

Created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 alongside the IMF. The World Banks original name, th...

The largest bank in Japan and one of the largest in the world, with over 3 trillion in assets. Forme...

The largest bank in the world by total assets, with over 6 trillion. ICBC was established in 1984 wh...

The Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northern Europe from th...

The Knights Templar operated the most extensive financial network in medieval Europe. With commander...

Founded as the City Bank of New York in 1812. Under Moses Taylor in the 19th century, City Bank beca...

Founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo in 1852 as an express transport and banking company serving...

The largest bank in France and one of the largest in Europe. BNP Paribas was formed from the 2000 me...

Spains largest bank, founded in Santander in 1857. Santander expanded aggressively through Latin Ame...

The largest bank in Africa by assets, founded in Port Elizabeth in 1862 as The Standard Bank of Brit...

The largest bank in India, tracing its origins to the Bank of Calcutta founded in 1806. The bank bec...

The Reserve Bank of Australia was established in 1960, separating central banking from the Commonwea...

Founded in 1935 as a private corporation, nationalized in 1938. The Bank of Canada managed Canadas f...

Italian banking houses of the 14th and 15th centuries invented modern banking. The Medicis, Peruzzis...

Venice developed Europes most sophisticated medieval banking system. The Banco di Rialto, founded in...

Formed from the 1969 merger of Standard Bank of British South Africa and Chartered Bank of India, Au...

Canadas second largest bank, formed from the merger of the Bank of Toronto and Dominion Bank in 1955...

ING was formed in 1991 from the merger of Nationale Nederlanden insurance and NMB Postbank. ING pion...

The worlds oldest continuously operating bank, founded in Siena in 1472 as a charitable mount of pie...

Established on April 1, 1935, under the Reserve Bank of India Act of 1934. The RBI was privately own...

Founded in 1925 under President Plutarco Elias Calles. The Bank of Mexico issued the peso and manage...

The Hamburger Bank was founded in 1619 in Hamburg, modeled on the Bank of Amsterdam. It was a public...

The Wiener Stadtbank was founded in Vienna in 1703 as a municipal bank. It served the Habsburg monar...

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria was formed from mergers of several Spanish banks, with roots to 1857...

Founded as a government owned savings and trading bank in 1911. The Commonwealth Bank served as Aust...

The largest bank in Latin America by assets, formed from the 2008 merger of Banco Itau and Unibanco....

The BIS, founded in Basel in 1930, is the central bank for central banks. Originally created to mana...

Founded in 1964 with headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The AfDB provides financing for developme...

Founded as the National Bank of Australasia in 1858 during the Australian gold rush. NAB acquired ba...

Founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1864 to finance the timber and shipping trades. RBC moved its he...

The first de facto central bank of the United States, chartered by the Continental Congress on Decem...

The central bank of Norway, founded in 1816 after Norway separated from Denmark. Norges Bank manages...

Founded in 1907, the Swiss National Bank conducts monetary policy for Switzerland. The SNB maintaine...

Founded in 1966 with headquarters in Manila. The ADB provides financing for development projects acr...

The Fugger banking house of Augsburg dominated European finance in the early 16th century. Jakob Fug...

Founded in 1967 in Dubai as the Bank of Oman. Mashreq was the first UAE bank to install ATMs and lau...

Founded in 1808 by Prince Regent Joao VI of Portugal, who had fled to Brazil during the Napoleonic W...

Banco Bradesco was founded in Marilia in 1943 by Amador Aguiar. Starting as Banco Brasileiro de Desc...

Established on January 1, 1993, after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The CNB inherited the Czech...

Originally the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, founded in 1952. The agency was established to stabili...

The Bank of Sweden, now Sveriges Riksbank, was founded by the Swedish parliament in 1668 after the f...

PNC traces its origins to the Pittsburgh Trust and Savings Company, founded in 1852. PNC grew throug...

Truist was formed from the 2019 merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks, creating the sixth largest US ban...

US Bancorp traces its origins to the First National Bank of Cincinnati, chartered in 1863 during the...

Founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of Housing Development Finance Corporation. HDFC Bank became the lar...

Founded in 1906 in Mangalore by Ammembai Subba Rao Pai. Canara Bank started as the Canara Hindu Perm...

The Rothschild banking dynasty was founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt in the 1760s. Ma...

The Warburg family of Hamburg established one of the most influential Jewish banking dynasties. The ...

Founded in 1870 in Hamburg. Commerzbank merged with Mitteldeutsche Creditbank in 1920 and Dresdner B...

UniCredit was formed from the 1998 merger of several Italian banks including Credito Italiano and Ro...

Nubank was founded in 2013 by David Velez in Sao Paulo as a digital first credit card company. Nuban...

Tinkoff Bank was founded by Oleg Tinkov in 2006 as a branchless bank. Tinkoff pioneered digital bank...

Sberbank, founded in 1841 as a savings bank of the Russian Empire, is the largest bank in Russia. Th...

Capitec was founded in 2001 by Jannie Mouton as a microlender. The bank targeted lower income South ...

The Bank of Egypt, founded in 1820 by French interests, was the first bank in Egypt and one of the f...

Revolut was founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko as a multi currency debit card. T...

The Export Import Bank of the United States was established in 1934 by President Roosevelt to financ...

Founded in 1864 to finance French industry. Societe Generale grew into one of Frances largest banks....

Founded in 1894 as a network of local agricultural credit cooperatives. Credit Agricole grew into th...

Originally the National Westminster Bank, formed in 1968 from the merger of National Provincial Bank...

The Monte di Pieta, or mount of piety, was invented by Franciscan monks in Perugia in 1462 as a char...

Founded in 1954 as the Peoples Construction Bank of China to manage state infrastructure investment....

Founded in 1951 to finance rural development and agriculture. The Agricultural Bank of China served ...

Founded in 1935 as the Kredietbank in Brussels. KBC Group was formed in 1998 from the merger of Kred...

Equity Bank was founded in 1984 as Equity Building Society in Kenya, initially targeting low income ...

The Bank of Thailand was established in 1942. The BOT managed the Thai baht and supervised Thai bank...

Monzo was founded in 2015 as Mondo by Tom Blomfield, a former Starling Bank executive. Monzo launche...

The Bank of Basel was founded in 1840 to finance Basels silk ribbon industry. The bank was one of th...

Al Rajhi Bank, founded in 1957, is the largest Islamic bank in the world by assets. The Al Rajhi fam...

Starling Bank was founded by Anne Boden in 2014 after she left her job as head of transaction servic...

Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunus in 1983, pioneered microfinance and microcredit. Grameen mad...

See Santander entry. The bank grew from a small regional bank in Cantabria to a global banking power...

Rabobank is a Dutch cooperative bank founded in 1898 by farmers as the Cooperative Agricultural Cred...

ADCB was formed in 1985 from the merger of Emirates Commercial Bank and Federal Commercial Bank. ADC...

Emirates NBD was formed in 2007 from the merger of Emirates Bank International and National Bank of ...

Meezan Bank is the largest Islamic bank in Pakistan, founded in 1997 as the first purely Islamic com...

The Medici Bank operated branches across Europe from 1397 to 1494. At its peak, the bank had 11 bran...

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies was established in 1995 to provide policy lending to poor house...

N26 was founded in Berlin in 2013 by Maximilian Tayenthal and Valentin Stalf. N26 launched its mobil...

The Development Bank of Singapore was established in 1968 by the Singapore government to finance ind...

The Banco di Napoli, founded in 1539 as the Monte della Pietà of Naples, became one of the most impo...

Intesa Sanpaolo was formed from the 2007 merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. The bank became th...

Genoese bankers rivaled and sometimes surpassed the Medicis during the Renaissance. Genoese banks fi...

Founded in 1964 as the first domestically owned commercial bank in Qatar. QNB grew into the largest ...

One of South Africas largest banks, tracing roots to 1831 when the Cape of Good Hope Bank was founde...

FirstRand was formed from the 1998 merger of Anglo American Corporation and RMB Holdings. FirstRand ...

VTB Bank was established in 1990 as Vneshtorgbank, the Bank for Foreign Trade of Russia. VTB grew in...

Chime is a US neobank founded by Chris Britt and Ryan King in 2013. Chime offers fee free banking th...

Varo became the first US neobank to receive a full national bank charter from the OCC in 2020. Found...