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Bank-ı Dersaadet (Bank Of Constantinople)
In 1844 Babıali (Sublime Porte) the Seat Of Ottoman Government, introduced monetary reforms, In 1845 it gave to Galata bankers a one year contact[1] for all money exchange operations. Renewed at the and of the contact this enterprise was named Bank-ı Dersaadet in 1847. Taken over by a Frenchman j. Alleon who had escaped from the French revolution and an Italian jewish banker named T.Baltazzi, this bank founded in 1874 was the first establishment to be called a bank in Istanbul still remembered as the Istanbul Bank.
[1] Contracts were denied to application to British in 1840 for "General Bank of Constantinoble", another to French the very same year and in 1842 to the Swedes for "The Bank of Smyrna".
Bank-ı Dersaadet (Bank Of Constantinople)
In 1844 Babıali (Sublime Porte) the Seat Of Ottoman Government, introduced monetary reforms, In 1845 it gave to Galata bankers a one year contact[1] for all money exchange operations. Renewed at the and of the contact this enterprise was named Bank-ı Dersaadet in 1847. Taken over by a Frenchman j. Alleon who had escaped from the French revolution and an Italian jewish banker named T.Baltazzi, this bank founded in 1874 was the first establishment to be called a bank in Istanbul still remembered as the Istanbul Bank.
[1] Contracts were denied to application to British in 1840 for "General Bank of Constantinoble", another to French the very same year and in 1842 to the Swedes for "The Bank of Smyrna".