The Böhmische Industriebank (, ) was a Czech bank based in
Prague
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, founded in 1898. By 1914, it was among the three largest banks in the
Czech lands
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. The bank came to an end in 1943 when it was merged with
Živnostenská Banka.
Overview
The bank's creation in 1898 was supported by the Czech National Economic Society (), with the aim of providing better credit conditions for industrial development in the country. It took over several local banks in the early 1920s. In 1943, it was forcibly merged into
Živnostenská Banka under orders from the German occupation authorities.
See also
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Böhmische Union Bank
The ''Böhmische Union-Bank'' (BUB, ) was a bank based in Prague, founded in 1872. One of the main commercial banks in History of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938), interwar Czechoslovakia, it was associated with the country's Germans in Czechoslov ...
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Böhmische Escompte-Bank
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Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank
The Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank (, ), also known as Anglobanka, was the second-largest bank in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It resulted from the merger in 1930 of three Prague-based banks:
* the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank (also A ...
References
Defunct banks of Czechoslovakia
Banks established in 1898
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