Early 20th Century

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

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...

Bear Stearns, founded in 1923, was the fifth largest investment bank in the US. The firm was known f...

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

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...

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

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

On March 6, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt declared a national bank holiday, closing all banks f...

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

The Reichsbank, Germanys central bank, facilitated the hyperinflation of 1923 by printing money to f...

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

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

The Bank of United States failure on December 11, 1930, was a pivotal moment in the Great Depression...

The Panic of 1907 began when the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the third largest trust company in New...

From the late 19th century through the mid 20th century, community banks were the backbone of Americ...

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

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

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

Narrow banking is a proposal where banks would be required to back all deposits with central bank re...

Deposit insurance was first introduced in the United States through the Federal Deposit Insurance Ac...