Organisation
Colonial Bank
- Slug
- colonial-bank-155
- Alternative names
- Barclays Bank
- Organisation type
- Bank
- Founding date
- 1836-06-01
- Dissolution date
- Unknown
- Location
- the-united-kingdom-17
- Languages
- Unknown
The Colonial Bank was a bank in the British territories of the West Indies during the colonial era. Colonial Bank Act 1900 The Colonial Bank was a bank in the British territories of the West Indies during the colonial era. The bank was established by royal charter on 1 June 1836, and had opened offices in most of the territories by 1837.[1]
Colonial Bank Act 1916 Colonial Bank Act 1917 The Colonial Bank Act 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. vi) gave the Colonial Bank the power to operate throughout the British Empire, and it expanded to West Africa. The Colonial Bank Act 1917 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. xlviii) further extended the bank’s powers, allowing it to operate in any part of the world. Later in 1917, the Colonial Bank entered into a working arrangement with Barclays Bank. Barclays Bank obtained control of Colonial Bank in 1919, and following re-incorporation by the Colonial Bank Act 1925, it changed its name to Barclays Bank