The Rotterdamsche Bank , known from 1911 to 1947 as Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging or Robaver , was a significant bank in the Netherlands , founded in 1863. In 1964, it merged with Amsterdamsche Bank to form AMRO Bank (for AMsterdamsche & ROtterdamsche).
3-834: The Rotterdamsche Bank was established on 16 May 1863 by a group of businessmen and bankers, who took inspiration from the British Colonial Bank and aimed at financing trade and investment in the Dutch East Indies . After a difficult start, however, the bank soon focused on domestic business. Between 1911 and 1947 it was known as the Union Bank of Rotterdam ( Dutch : Rotterdamsche Bank Vereeniging , abbreviated as Robaver), following its 1911 acquisition of Rotterdam competitor Deposito- en Administratie Bank (est. 1900) and soon afterwards of Amsterdam brokers Determeijer Weslingh & Zn. (est. 1765). Under
6-607: A major former colonial bank that had been known until 1950 as the Dutch-Indian Trade Bank ( Dutch : Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank , NIHB; est. 1863). This bank and insurance -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Colonial Bank (West Indies) The Colonial Bank was a bank in the British territories of the West Indies during the colonial era. The bank
9-518: The leadership of its ambitious managing director Willem Westerman [ nl ] , it went on to acquire a number of local banks, but became overextended and had to be restructured under the aegis of De Nederlandsche Bank in the mid-1920s. In 1928, it created the Vrouwenbank [ nl ] ("Women's Bank"), a bank targeted at a female customer base that lasted until 1971. In 1960, Rotterdamsche Bank acquired Nationale Handelsbank ,
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