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655: 699: 608: 680: 31: 451: 569: 593: 777: 581: 383: 431: 415: 352: 368: 208: 39: 399: 639: 750: 624: 711: 792:, engineered the merger of the three banks to form the Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank, which became the country's second-largest bank. The new bank established its head office in the former headquarters of Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank, which was the larger of the three, at Hybernská 5 in Prague. In 1939, it opened a branch in 253:
Montagu Norman then negotiated an exemption from Czechoslovakia's policy of "nostrification" of the banking sector, allowing it to retain control of its Czech operations even though it placed them in a newly formed subsidiary, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank formally established on 12 April 1922. At the
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time of its establishment, it was larger (by either capital or total assets) than any of the nostrified banks, even though some long-established domestic banks were larger, namely the
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in Czechoslovakia. It suffered heavy losses in the turmoil of the early 1920s. Given the bank's lingering fragility in the late 1920s, its directors welcomed the prospect of merger.
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which it had acquired in the early 20th century, and for the building of new branches in several Czechoslovak cities, including a notable exemplar of
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in 1896, and relocated there in 1899. In 1900-1902, it built a new head office in Prague, 28. října 13, one of the earliest examples of
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The Czech Commercial Bank was created in 1921 from the nostrification of the operations of Vienna-based
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Auftakt zur Ostexpansion. Die Dresdner Bank und die Umgestaltung des Bankwesens im Sudetenland 1938/39
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Trilingual share certificate of the newly formed Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank, 1930
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Former head office of the Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank on Hybernská 5, Prague
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Gočár's remodeling of the Prague head office from 1923 to 1926 was an early example of
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during the 1930s. It resulted from the merger in 1930 of three Prague-based banks:
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in 1912. In 1919, it was shored up by a group of investors led by France's
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in late 1918, more than 50% of the bank's assets were in what became
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In 1923, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank opened a branch of its own in
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were similarly liquidated in 1924, with assets taken over by the
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In the 1920s, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank commissioned architect
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Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen, Band 4
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soon became a major shareholder, through the mediation of the
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In late 1938, the bank ceded its operations in the annexed
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Former head office of Czech Commercial Bank, Na příkopě 6
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for the remodeling of its head office in Prague, in the
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The Prague Credit Bank's long-standing general manager
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Prague head office, with the remodeling designed by
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The Prague Credit Bank opened a branch in 246:, and transferred the bank's head office to 1225:The History of Money in Croatia 1527 – 1941 1132:"Bývalá Anglorakouská banka, dnes knihovna" 1114:"Generali Real Estate buys Prague building" 871: 218:The Anglo-Austrian Bank opened a branch in 56:Anglo-československá a Pražská úvěrní banka 1187:"Pražská úvěrní banka, City Palais čp 377" 1161: 560:National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 242:family and under direct watch of Governor 202: 1148: 985: 983: 930: 928: 48:Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank 1369: 1014:, Prague: Charles University, p. 99 1001: 775: 764: 734: 449: 206: 37: 29: 955:"Types of banks in the Habsburg Empire" 884:. It was finally subsumed in 1948 into 760: 222:in 1880. 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Index

Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank


Czech
German
Czechoslovakia
Czech
German
Anglo-Austrian Bank
Czech
German
Czech
Czech
German
Mercurbank
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
German
Czech
Živnostenská banka

Montagu Norman
Prague
Habsburg Monarchy
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Bank of England
Petschek
Montagu Norman
London
Böhmische Escompte-Bank

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