The Standard Chartered Bank of Canada was the
Canadian banking unit of the British
Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Chartered plc is a multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around ...
. Standard Chartered bank was created by a merger of Standard Bank of British
South Africa (1862) and the
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (1853) in 1969.
[http://www.standardchartered.com/about-us/history/en/index.html] It quit Canada in the 1990s, selling its two retail branches to
Bank of Montreal
The Bank of Montreal (BMO; french: Banque de Montréal, link=no) is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company.
The bank was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1817 as Montreal Bank; while its head office remains in ...
and its commercial branch to Toronto-Dominion Bank. Standard Chartered's separate metals services business Mocatta Metals was sold to
Scotiabank
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in 1997 to form
ScotiaMocatta.
Standard Chartered Bank operated two small offices in Calgary and Toronto through its acquisitions of Harrison Lovegrove & Co. and American Express Bank.
* Toronto - Gryphon Partners Canada Incorporated (20 Adelaide Street East) - ceased operations
* Calgary - Standard Chartered Corporate Finance (Canada) Limited (420, 635 8th Avenue SW, Hanover Place) - dissolved in 2018
See also
*
List of Canadian banks
References
External links
Standard Chartered Bank - CanadaGryphon Partners
Defunct banks of Canada
Standard Chartered
Bank of Montreal
Banks established in 1969
Banks with year of disestablishment missing
Canadian companies established in 1969
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