The Colonial Bank was a bank in the British territories of the

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during the colonial era. The bank was established by

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on 1 June 1836, and had opened offices in most of the territories by 1837. The ( 6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. vi) gave the Colonial Bank the power to operate throughout the British Empire, and it expanded to West Africa. The ( 7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. xlviii) further extended the bank's powers, allowing it to operate in any part of the world. Later in 1917, the Colonial Bank entered into a working arrangement with

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. Barclays Bank obtained control of Colonial Bank in 1919, and following re-incorporation by the ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. cvi) it changed its name to

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. The

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and the

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were then merged into Barclays Bank DCO.

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