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. 98 THE BANK CAPITALISM OF YOUNG BENGAL
m.erciale Italiana of Milan, Banque de Bruxelles of
. Brussels, Nieder~oesterreichische Escompte~Gesellschaft
of Vienna and the Hambros Bank of London. Among
the shareholders of the Powszechny Zwiazkowy, like.
'wise, do we find the Wiener Bankverein of Vienna,
BanqueBelge pour I'Etranger of Brussels, Basler Handelshank
of Basel (Swiss), and the Boehmische Unionbank
of Prague. And the Banque des Pays de r Europe
Cen.trale of Paris is a shareholder of the Kreditowy.
It is noteworthy also that none of the 100 per .cent
indigenous hanks of Poland happen to be big institutions.
One of the leading "national" hanks of Poland, the Bank
Zachodny (West Bank) of Warsaw, for instance, is a
rather modest enterprise, exhibiti.ng such figures as the
following:
1928
1929
1930
Zl
Zl
.. 2.]
Capital
10,080,000
10;080,000
10,080,000
ReserVe
2,706,000
2,873,000
2,927,000
Deposit
25,666,000
32,444,00o.
43,050,000
In 1930 the Bank Zachodny was operated at a capital of
sollie Rs.3,200,000 and commanded deposit to the value
of Rs. 13;760,000/ 5
Even if we exclude the purely foreign banks (Group
JV)fromour consideration we notice that in Poland the de.·
c po~its of ;thePolish people are commanded by such banks
·as are under foreign control. It is not the Pole but the
.. for@ignerthat is the niastei; of the banking world in
. c .
Poland. Andna~urally, in the "D()wn~town, I, the bank
quartet', the •• city, "so to say, of Warsaw one ~ncounters.
15 Euro/3iiische Ban'ten; 1931. p. 149. ' .