The Bank of Queensland was a bank in Queensland, Australia. It flourished between 1917 and 1922. It was created by the January 1917 merger of the Royal Bank of Queensland with the Bank of North Queensland. The National Bank was not well represented in Queensland and, intending to expand itself into a truly national institution, bought the Bank of Queensland for cash on 9 January 1922 "for a price corresponding with the actual assets of £520,000". Their offer was accepted by the former shareholders immediately after it was approved by the National Bank's shareholders.

Other trading banks named Bank of Queensland

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Bank of Queensland The Bank of Queensland (BOQ), formerly known as the Brisbane Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society (BPBBIS) between 1874–1970, is an Australian retail bank with headquarters in Brisbane, Queensland. The bank is one of the oldest fi ...

had been established in London and opened for business in Brisbane on 13 August 1863 in the renovated premises of the former Joint Stock Bank. Caught by the fall-out from the July 1866 collapse of the major London discount house

Overend, Gurney and Company Overend, Gurney and Company was a London wholesale banking, wholesale discount bank, known as "the bankers' bank", which collapsed in 1866 owing about £11 million, equivalent to £ million in . The collapse of the institution triggered a bankin ...

, the shareholders agreed at the end of 1866 to voluntarily wind the bank up.Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser
(Qld. : 1861 - 1908) Thu 27 Dec 1866 Page 4 ;1970— The Bank of Queensland's name has since been revived by a different institution. The former Brisbane Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society, which had operated as a savings bank since 1887 and then as a trading bank since 1942, took on the name

in 1970.

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