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Bank Australia is an Australian customer-owned bank based in Collingwood, Victoria. The organisation can trace its origins back to 1957, when the CSIRO Co-operative Credit Society was formed. Over succeeding years, mergers among 72 other credit unions and co-operative banks eventually led to the creation of the Members & Education Credit Union ...
Bank of Australasia, Sydney, 1840s. (State Library of New South Wales) The Bank of Australasia was an Australian bank in operation from 1835 to 1951. [1] Headquartered in London, the bank was incorporated by royal charter in March 1834.
The Bank of Australia was a failed financial institution of early colonial New South Wales. It was formed in 1826 and collapsed in 1843. It was formed in 1826 and collapsed in 1843. Founding
Its former constituent parts were the Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, and the Commonwealth Development Bank. Founded in 1911 by the Australian Government and fully privatised in 1996, the Commonwealth Bank is one of the big four Australian banks, with the National Australia Bank (NAB), ANZ and ...
The bank was incorporated by the Colony of Victoria on 24 February 1859. [5] The bank opened its first branch in South Australia the same year. [citation needed] Expansion to other Australian states followed, with branches opening in Tasmania (1859), Western Australia (1866), New South Wales (1885) and finally Queensland (1920).
A recent obituary in the Wall Street Journal recounted the colorful career of financier A. W. Clausen, a former World Banker and a moving force behind Bank of America during some of the ...
Commercial Bank of Australia. The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited (CBA) was an Australian and New Zealand retail bank which operated from 1866 until being amalgamated with the Bank of New South Wales, that was established in 1817, to form the Westpac Banking Corporation in 1982. [1] [2]
It is Australia's second-largest bank by assets and fourth-largest bank by market capitalisation. [2] Its current corporate entity was established on 1 October 1970, when the Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ) merged with the English, Scottish & Australian Bank (ES&A). [3] It was the largest bank merger in Australian history at the time.