Colonial Bank of New Zealand

Colonial Bank of New Zealand
Company typepublic listed company
IndustryBanking
FoundedJuly 1874 (1874-07)
Defunct1898
HeadquartersDunedin,
New Zealand
Key people
William Larnach
Matthew Holmes
William Tolmie
Donald Reid
ProductsBanking, financial and saving services

The Colonial Bank of New Zealand was a trading bank headquartered in Dunedin, New Zealand which operated independently for more than 20 years. A public company listed on the local stock exchanges it was owned and controlled by New Zealand entrepreneurs and not London or Australian bankers. Still subject to the same vicissitudes as its fellow colonial banks it was bought by the Bank of New Zealand in 1895.