Eastern Bank Ltd (historic)

Eastern Bank Limited
Industryfinancial service activities, except insurance and pension funding 
Founded1909
Defunct1971
FateAcquired by Chartered Bank
(1957)
Amalgamated into Standard Chartered
(1971)
SuccessorStandard Chartered
(1971)
Headquarters
London 
,
United Kingdom 

The Eastern Bank Limited, was a British bank founded in 1909 in London, to help finance trade with the Far East. In 1957 Chartered Bank (now Standard Chartered Bank), acquired Eastern, and eventually absorbed it into Standard Chartered in 1971.

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