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HSBC ceased banking operations in Nicaragua in 2009, [170] Georgia in 2011, [171] Slovakia in 2012, [172] and Palestine in 2015. [173] HSBC disposed of its 70.1% stake in the Dar Es Salaam Investment Bank, a bank based in Iraq, in 2013. [174] HSBC Bank (Turkey) transferred its operations in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to ALBANK in ...
The couple had two sons, and a daughter, Helen Christian Sutherland (1881–1965), known as an art patron; one of the sons, Eric Macnaught Sutherland, died in the Second Boer War, the other son, Thomas Leslie Macnaught Sutherland, died during World War I. In 1920, his wife Alice died.
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC.The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836.
After the establishment of Hong Kong as a British colony in 1842, the territory witnessed the foundation of its modern banking system. [1] The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) was established in 1865, with the primary purpose of financing trade between China and Europe.
In 1898, Jardines and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company (HSBC) founded the British and Chinese Corporation (BCC). The civil engineering partnership of John Wolfe-Barry and Arthur John Barry were appointed Joint Consulting Engineers to the British and Chinese Corporation. [70]
Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn (28 July 1881 – 21 August 1943) was the chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1930 to 1943. He was the most powerful financier in the Far East in the 1930s, [1] and took an important role in establishing Hong Kong dollar as the official currency of the colony.
Marine Midland was founded as Marine Bank, a state-chartered bank, on July 10, 1850, with capital of $170,000. It was founded by eight men from across New York—General James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo, J. P. Beekman of Kinderhook, New York, John Arnot of Elmira, John Magee and Constant Cook of Bath, William R. Gwinn of Medina, and George Palmer and James M. Ganson of Buffalo.
John Malcolm Gray was born in Hong Kong on 28 July 1934. [3] At the beginning of the Second World War, Samuel Gray, his father, was manager of the bank in Calcutta. [3] He sent his family to Australia for safety. [3]