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CHB Bank
Chohung Bank Co., Ltd. (CHB; , sometimes transcribed as Joheung Bank) was a bank company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It was formed by the 1943 merger of Hanseong Bank (), established in 1897 and sometimes referred to as Korea's first bank, and Dong-il Bank (), originally established in 1906 as Hanil Bank (, not to be confused with the namesake South Korean Bank active between 1960 and 1999) and renamed in 1931. By the mid-1990s, Chohung Bank was one of the five most prominent banks in South Korea, together with Korea First Bank, Korea Commercial Bank, Hanil Bank, and Seoul Bank. It was negatively affected by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and eventually merged into Shinhan Financial Group in 2003-2006. Korean Empire and Japanese rule Hanseong Bank was established on . The Bank was successful because despite lending out money at twice the rate it borrowed it at, the bank's interest rates were still far lower than what could be obtained elsewhere in Korea at that time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang Hwa Bank
Chang Hwa Bank (CHB; ) is a Taiwan-based financial institution that offers both retail and commercial banking services to private and corporate customers. Today, the Bank has seven overseas branches and representatives offices and 175 domestic branches, 4 Sub-branches and 5 securities broker (as of Apr. 2008).https://www.chb.com.tw/wps/wcm/connect/web/common/English/eOrg/ Organization Chart History It was established in 1905 under Japanese rule in Changhua County, and relocated to Taichung in 1910. Japanese shares were taken over by the Republic of China government after World War II. In December 1997, the Taiwan Provincial Government made public its shareholdings in the Bank in line with the government's policy of financial privatization. The Bank was officially privatized on 1 January 1998. Corporate structure *Chang Hwa Bank offers nine categories of businesses: **deposits (i.e., such as demand deposit), **corporate/institutional banking (including short- and mid-term operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incheon 58Bank
Incheon is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi Province to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international port in 1883. As of February 2020, about 3 million people live in the city, making it South Korea's third-most-populous city after Seoul and Busan. The city's growth has been assured in modern times with the development of its port due to its natural advantages as a coastal city and its proximity to the South Korean capital. It is part of the Seoul Metropolitan Area, along with Seoul itself and Gyeonggi Province, forming the world's fourth-largest metropolitan area by population. Incheon has since led the economic development of South Korea by opening its port to the outside world, ushering in the modernization of South Korea as a center of industrialization. In 2003, the city was designated as South Korea's first free economic zone. Since then, large local companies and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
