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Compagnie Générale Du Maroc
The Compagnie générale du Maroc (General Company of Morocco), known as "Genaroc", is a French financial holding company founded in February 1912 by a consortium of French banks headed by the Bank of Paris and the Netherlands. In 1914, it teamed with :fr:Lyonnaise des Eaux to create the Moroccan Society of Distribution of Water, Gas and Electricity (SMD). It then took part in the creation of the :fr:Compagnie des chemins de fer du Maroc (Railway Company of Morocco), and it became one of the two main shareholders of the :fr:Compagnie franco-espagnole du chemin de fer de Tanger à Fès (Franco-Spanish Company of the Tangier Railway in Fez). References * Jacques Boudet, ''Le monde des affaires en France de 1830 à nos jours'', 1952 * Abdelali Benamour, ''Intermédiation financière et développement économique du Maroc'', 1971 * Georges Hatton, ''Les enjeux financiers et économiques du Protectorat marocain (1936-1956): politique publique et investisseurs privés'', 2009 {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paribas
The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (“Bank of Paris and the Netherlands”), generally referred to from 1982 as Paribas, was a French investment bank based in Paris. In May 2000, it merged with the Banque Nationale de Paris to form BNP Paribas. History Background In the early 1820s, Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim founded a private banking establishment in Amsterdam in his own name. His brother Jonathan-Raphaël created a branch in Antwerp in 1827 before settling in Brussels in 1836. Having married Henriette Goldschmidt, the daughter of Frankfurt banker Hayum-Salomon Goldschmidt, Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim established the Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie bank in Paris in 1846, then in London in 1860. In 1863 he merged these banks into the (NCDB, "Dutch Credit and Deposit Bank"; french: Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas), which he had founded in Amsterdam: the Bischoffsheim family thereby established a powerful multinational banking conglomerate. Separately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
