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BRITISH OVERSEAS AND COMMONWEALTH BANKS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/031

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BRITISH OVERSEAS AND COMMONWEALTH BANKS

Date(s): 1917-1993

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 7 production units.

Name of creator(s): British Overseas Banks Association x British Overseas and Commonwealth Banks Association

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Founded in 1917 as the British Overseas Banks Association, the association's name was changed to British Overseas and Commonwealth Banks Association in 1964. It was based at 10 Clements Lane (1917-85), 38 Bishopsgate (1985-7), 8 Old Jewry (1988-9), 99 Bishopsgate (1990), 110-112 Fenchurch Street (1991-2), 91 Gresham Street (1993-4) and 35 John Street (1995-6). The Association was dissolved in 1997.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of the British Overseas and Commonwealth Banks Association.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1997 and 1998. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bankers | Bank employees | Business people | People by occupation | People
Banking | Occupations
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Overseas banks | Banks | Financial institutions | Finance
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations
Banking x Banks

Personal names

Corporate names
British Overseas Banks Association x British Overseas and Commonwealth Banks Association

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe