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1 Contents Foreword Preface List of contributors xiii xv xvii PART 1 AUSTRIA Banking in Austria 3 Le systeme bancaire autrichien 11 Alice Teichova Oesterreichische Nationalbank 19 Bank fur Arbeit und Wirtschaft (BAWAG) 22 Bank Austria AG 25 Creditanstalt-Bankverein 28 GiroCredit 33 Osterreichische Postsparkasse (P.S.K.) 37 Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG 42 PART 2 BELGIUM The banking system in Belgium through the centuries 47 Le systeme bancaire en Belgique a travers les siecles 56 Helma Houtman-De Smedt Banque Nationale de Belgique 64 ASLK-CGER Bank 67 Banque Bruxelles Lambert 73 Le Credit Communal 78 Generale de Banque/Generale Bank 83 Kredietbank 90

2 PART 3 DENMARK Danish banking history 97 Histoire du systeme bancaire danois 105 Hans Christian Johansen Danmarks Nationalbank 114 Den Danske Bank 118 Sbn Bank 123 Sparekassen Bikuben A/S 125 Sparekassen Sydjylland 127 Unibank 128 PART 4 FINLAND The Finnish banking system in broad outline from the 1860s to the mid-1980s 135 Le systeme bancaire finlandais depuis les annees 1860 jusqu'au milieu des annees 1980 (generalites) 148 Antti Kuustera Bank of Finland 161 Kansallis-Osake-Pankki 171 Postipankki 175 Union Bank of Finland 179 PART 5 FRANCE The history of banks in France 185 Histoire des banques en France 195 Alain P less is Banque de France 204 Banque de I'lndochine ( ) 210 Banque Nationale de Paris ( ) 213 Banque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet 220 Banque OBC - Odier Bungener Courvoisier 226 Banque Ottomane 231 Caisse des Depots et Consignations 235 Compagnie Financiere de Paribas 246 Credit Agricole 253 Credit Commercial de France 260 Credit Foncier de France 265 Credit Industriel d'alsace et de Lorraine (CIAL) 271 Credit Lyonnais 277

3 Contents vii Demachy 282 Societe Generate 286 Societe Generale Alsacienne de Banque (SOGENAL) 290 PART 6 GERMANY A short history of the German banking system 299 Histoire bancaire de 1'Allemagne 313 Richard Tilly Deutsche Bundesbank 328 Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt 337 Baden-Wiirttembergische Bank AG 342 Bankhaus Lampe 346 Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank AG 350 Bayerische Landesbank 353 Bayerische Vereinsbank 357 Berenberg Bank 362 Berliner Bank AG 366 Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank (BHF-Bank) 368 Bremer Landesbank 373 Commerzbank 375 Delbriick & Co, Privatbankiers 380 Deutsche Bank 384 Deutsche Centralbodenkredit-Aktiengesellschaft 389 Deutsche Girozentrale - Deutsche Kommunalbank Deutsche Hypothekenbank Frankfurt AG 398 Frankfurter Hypothekenbank AG ' 403 Hamburger Sparkasse (Haspa) 408 Hamburgische Landesbank - Girozentrale 412 Georg Hauck & Sohn Bankiers 416 Hesse Newman & Co. (AG & Co.) 419 Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau 423 Landesbank Hessen -Thiiringen Girozentrale 428 Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz Girozentrale 431 Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale 434 Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank 439 B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. KGaA 444 Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie 451 Rheinische Hypothekenbank AG (RHEINHYP) 458 SchmidtBank 460 Schroder Munchmeyer Hengst & Co 462 Siidwestdeutsche Genossenschafts-Zentralbank AG (SGZ-Bank) 465 Siidwestdeutsche Landesbank (SudwestLB) 469

4 x Contents PART 14 PORTUGAL Portuguese banking, 821 Le systeme bancaire portugais 827 Jaime Reis Banco de Portugal 834 Banco Borges & Irmao 838 Banco Espfrito Santo e Comercial de Lisboa 847 Banco Fonsecas e Burnay 851 Banco Nacional Ultramarino, SA 854 Banco Pinto & Sottomayor 858 Banco Portugues do Atlantico 859 Banco Totta e A ores 860 Caixa Geral de Depositos 861 PART 15 SPAIN Spanish banking history, 1782 to the present 865 L'histoire bancaire espagnole de 1782 a nos jours 875 Gabriel Tortella Banco de Espana 886 Argentaria 893 Banco de Credito Agncola (BCA) " 895 Banco de Credito Industrial (BCI) 897 Banco de Credito Local (BCL) 899 Banco Exterior de Espana (BEX) 901 Banco Hipotecario de Espana (BHE) 904 Caja Postal 905 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya 907 Banco Central 913 Banco Hispano Americano 918 Banco Popular Espanol 922 Banco Sabadell 928 Banco Santander 932 Banco Zaragozano 936 Caixa de Catalunya 939 Caixa Galicia 944 Caja de Madrid 948 Unicaja 953

5 Contents xi PART 16 SWEDEN Swedish commercial banking over 150 years ans de banque commerciale suedoise 976 UlfOlsson Sveriges Riksbank 989 Gota Bank 997 Nordbanken (former PKbanken) 1001 Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken 1005 Svenska Handelsbanken 1010 PART 17 SWITZERLAND/LIECHTENSTEIN Banks and banking in Switzerland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 1015 Les banques suisses aux dix-neuvieme et vingtieme siecles 1023 Youssef Cassis Swiss National Bank 1032 Bank for International Settlements 1037 Bank in Liechtenstein 1046 Bank Julius Baer 1051 Bank Leu 1056 Bank Sarasin & Cie 1059 BankVontobel 1063 Banque Cantonale Bernoise 1066 Banque Cantonale Vaudoise 1072 Banque Populaire Suisse 1079 BSI - Banca della Svizzera Italiana 1084 Credit Suisse 1089 Darier, Hentsch & Cie 1094 Liechtensteinische Landesbank 1098 Lombard Odier & Cie 1103 Pictet & Cie 1108 Spar + Leihkasse in Bern 1113 Swiss Bank Corporation 1117 Union Bank of Switzerland 1121 Verwaltungs- und Privat-Bank AG 1124 Ziircher Kantonalbank 1127 PART 18 UNITED KINGDOM The historical development of modern banking within the United Kingdom 1137

6 xii Contents Le developpement historique du systeme bancaire dans le Royaume-Uni 1162 Philip L. Cottrell Bank of England 1190 Bank of Scotland 1193 Barclays 1196 Barings Pic 1202 Coutts & Co Guinness Mahon & Co. Ltd 1210 Hambros Pic 1214 Lloyds Bank Pic 1218 Midland Bank pic 1222 Morgan Grenfell Group 1227 National Westminster Bank Pic 1232 Northern Bank Ltd 1238 NM Rothschild & Sons Limited 1242 Royal Bank of Scotland Pic 1247 Standard Chartered PLC 1257 TSB Group pic 1263 Union PLC 1267 S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd 1271 Index 1275