19th Century

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Western Union introduced the first electronic money transfer in 1872 using the telegraph network. A ...

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...

Postal banking, where post offices offer savings accounts and basic financial services, was pioneere...

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

President Andrew Jacksons veto of the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832 was ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The Suffolk Bank of Boston established the first bank clearinghouse system in the United States in 1...

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

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...

Michigans wildcat banking era from 1837 to 1844 produced some of the most worthless banknotes in Ame...

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