Three Southern Banks () referred to the three most
capitalized commercial banks
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It can also refer to a bank, or a division of a large bank, which deals with corp ...
in the south of
Yangtze River
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in the
Republic of China in the 1920s, in contrast to the
Four Northern Banks (北四行) of
Northern China. With their
headquarters in
Shanghai
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, the three banks cooperated to form the group.
The three banks were
The National Commercial Bank (浙江興業銀行), the
Chekiang Industrial Bank (浙江實業銀行) and the
Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank (上海商業儲蓄銀行).
Three Southern Banks
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Defunct banks of China
Banking in China
1920s in China