The aftermath of the Opium wars saw to the rise and creation of a bank which would provide for the new English colony's monetarty needs (now no more a English colony but it remains an autonomus part of another country) which its founder wanted to be built on "SOUND SCOTTISH BANKING PRINCIPLES". Founded in two cities in March, Apirl 1865, with its next branch in Japan. 1874 saw the first loan given in mainland China. The Second World War shifted the headoffice to London in aticipation of an attack by a Axis power on the British colony.
One of the leading Banks in the world...well a little geography will help you...LOOK LOOK LOOK NAME THE BANK
ANSWER: The HongKong Shanghai Bank (HSBC Ltd)
Royal Bank of Scotland
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