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- catalog abstract ""Like its major rivals - the Hongkong Bank, Chartered Bank and the National Bank of India - the Mercantile Bank endured losses and hardship during the Second World War. In the post-war world it needed both to adapt to massive political change throughout the East and to diversify into new markets and new types of business. In 1959 the Mercantile became a subsidiary of the Hongkong Bank, and this book explores the complex, high-level negotiations in London and the East which preceded the acquisition. Thereafter the Mercantile's business was gradually integrated into the larger group and, in the 1960s and 1970s, there was an increasing exchange of business, staff and systems between the bank and its parent company. Although the Mercantile Bank was fully absorbed in 1984 by the Hongkong Bank (now part of the HSBC Group), its history, business and personnel remained an important thread in the traditions of the enlarged group."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11409460.
- catalog contributor b11409461.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Like its major rivals - the Hongkong Bank, Chartered Bank and the National Bank of India - the Mercantile Bank endured losses and hardship during the Second World War. In the post-war world it needed both to adapt to massive political change throughout the East and to diversify into new markets and new types of business. In 1959 the Mercantile became a subsidiary of the Hongkong Bank, and this book explores the complex, high-level negotiations in London and the East which preceded the acquisition. Thereafter the Mercantile's business was gradually integrated into the larger group and, in the 1960s and 1970s, there was an increasing exchange of business, staff and systems between the bank and its parent company. Although the Mercantile Bank was fully absorbed in 1984 by the Hongkong Bank (now part of the HSBC Group), its history, business and personnel remained an important thread in the traditions of the enlarged group."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 242 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Paradise bank.".
- catalog identifier "1840146850 (hbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Paradise bank.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in banking history".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Paradise bank.".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "332.1/5/0954 21".
- catalog subject "Banks and banking India.".
- catalog subject "Banks and banking, British India History.".
- catalog subject "HG3288.M74 G74 1999".
- catalog subject "Mercantile Bank History.".
- catalog subject "Mercantile Bank of India History.".
- catalog subject "Mercantile Bank.".
- catalog title "The paradise bank : the Mercantile Bank of India, 1893-1984 / Edwin Green and Sara Kinsey.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".