Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank

Former head office of the Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank on Hybernská 5, Prague
Trilingual share certificate of the newly formed Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank, 1930

The Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank (Czech: Anglo-československá a Pražská úvěrní banka, German: Anglo-Tschechoslowakische und Prager Creditbank), also known as Anglobanka, was the second-largest bank in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It resulted from the merger in 1930 of three Prague-based banks:

  • the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank (also Anglobanka, Czech: Anglo-československá banka, German: Anglo-Tschechoslowakische Bank), created in 1922 from the former activities of Anglo-Austrian Bank in the country
  • the Prague Credit Bank (Czech: Pražská úvěrní banka or PÚB, German: Prager Creditbank), originally established in 1870 as Credit Bank in Kolín (Czech: Úvěrní banka v Kolíně) and relocated to Prague in 1899
  • the Czech Commercial Bank (Czech: Česká komerční banka, German: Böhmische Kommerzialbank), established in 1921 from the former activities of Austria's Mercurbank

Following the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the merged entity was renamed the Anglo-Prague Credit Bank (German: Anglo-Prager Creditbank, Czech: Anglo-Pražská úvěrní banka) in 1939, then again Prague Credit Bank in 1940. It was nationalized in 1946 and eventually absorbed in 1948 by Živnostenská banka.[1]

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