Octave Marie Joseph Kérim Homberg, Jr. (19 January 1876 – 9 July 1941) was a French diplomat, author, and financier. He was director of the

Indo-China Bank The Banque de l'Indochine (), 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 Paci ...

Biography

He was born on 19 January 1876 in Paris, France to Octave Homberg, Sr. (1844-1907). During World War I he appealed to the United States for loans and participated in the 1915 Anglo-French Financial Commission. He headed the Commission of Bankers and Economists in France in 1917. In 1920 he founded the

Société financière française et coloniale The ''Société financière française et coloniale'' (SFFC, "French and Colonial Financial Company") was a French investment bank that was an active investor in colonial ventures, particularly in the 1920s. It was founded in 1920 by financier O ...

, which he led until early 1931. He died on 9 July 1941 in Cannes, France.

External links

Octave Homberg
at the Internet Archive
Octave Homberg
at the WorldCat

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Homberg, Octave French financiers 1876 births 1941 deaths 20th-century French non-fiction writers