Banco Británico de la América del Sud
IndustryBanking and Financial services
PredecessorEnglish Bank of Rio de Janeiro
Founded1888
Defunct1923
Successor?
Headquarters
Buenos Aires
Area served
Argentina
Uruguay
Brazil

Banco Británico de la América del Sud was an extinct British banking institution with headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1] It was located in the current corners of Bartolomé Mitre and Reconquista, current site of the Central House of the Banco de la Nación Argentina.[2]

History

Montevideo branch

Its central building was located at Calle de la Piedad No. 400, barrio de San Nicolás, Buenos Aires, in front of the headquarters of the Bank of London and South America and Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata.[3] It was built on land belonging to the main families of the colonial period of Buenos Aires.[4]

This institution was originally established under the name Banco Inglés de Rio de Janeiro in 1888, and it was refounded with the name of Banco Británico de la América del Sud in 1891.[5] It had several branches in South America, including Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Baedeker de la República Argentina. Alberto B. Martínez. 1900.
  2. ↑ El Banco de la Nación Argentina en su cincuentenário: MCCMXCI-MCMXLI. Banco de la Nacion Argentina. 1941.
  3. ↑ La Rural; guia general de estancieros de la republica. Buenos Aires. 1912.
  4. ↑ La sociedad de antaño. Octavio C. Battolla. 1908.
  5. ↑ Guía ilustrada de Buenos Aires para el viajero en la República Argentina. Arturo Pereyra, Florencio Fernández Gómez.
  6. ↑ Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America. Ernst B. Filsinger. 1922.
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