Banque de l'Indochine

Headquarters building in Paris (completed 1922), 96 boulevard Haussmann
Office in Hankou (completed 1902), now part of Wuhan
Branch building in Bangkok (completed 1908, right)
Office in Tianjin (completed 1908)
Office on the Bund in Shanghai (completed 1914)
Office in the Beijing Legation Quarter (completed 1917)
Branch in Haiphong (completed 1925)
Office in Nam Định (completed 1929)
Office in Hanoi (completed 1930), now headquarters of the State Bank of Vietnam
Branch building in Saigon (completed 1930), now the Ho Chi Minh City branch of the State Bank of Vietnam
Office in Phnom Penh, after renovation in 2006
Office on Shamian Island in Guangzhou

The Banque de l'Indochine (French: [bɑ̃k də lɛ̃dɔʃin]), originally Banque de l'Indo-Chine ("Bank of Indochina"), was a bank created in 1875 in Paris to finance French colonial development in Asia. As a bank of issue in Indochina until 1952 (and in French Pacific territories until 1967),[1] with many features of a central bank, it played a major role in the financial history of French Indochina, French India, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Djibouti, as well as French-backed ventures in China and Siam. After World War II, it lost its issuance privilege but reinvented itself as an investment bank in France, and developed new ventures in other countries, such as Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

The Compagnie Financière de Suez acquired a controlling interest in the Banque de l'Indochine in 1972, then merged it in 1975 with its own banking subsidiary to form Banque Indosuez, since 1996 itself part of the Crédit Agricole universal banking group.

  1. ^ George S. Cuhaj, ed. (2009). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Vol. 1: Specialized Issues. Krause Publications. ISBN 978-1440204500.