How Old Is Your Firm ? (Updated)

Detailed below are the dates when several firms (or their predecessor firms) were founded:

1472 - Monte dei Paschi di Siena

1590 - Berenberg Bank

1672 - C Hoare & Co

1690 - Barclays Bank

1695 - Bank of Scotland

1720 - Fortis

1727 - Royal Bank of Scotland

1747 - UBS

1765 - Lloyds TSB

1769 - Rothschild

1783 - Man Group

1784 - The Bank of New York Mellon

1789 - Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie KGaA

1792 - Charles Stanley

1792 - State Street

1794 - Bank of America

1799 - JPMorgan Chase

1804 - Schroders

1812 - Citigroup

1817 - Bank of Montreal

1817 - Westpac

1823 - Cazenove

1824 - ABN AMRO

1832 - ScotiaBank

1832 - WestLB

1848 - Lazard

1850 - Lehman Brothers

1850 - Rabobank

1855 - TD Bank

1856 - Credit Suisse

1863 - Standard Chartered

Royal Bank of Canada - 1864

1865 - HSBC

1867 - CIBC

1868 - Foreign & Colonial

1869 - Goldman Sachs

1870 - Deutsche Bank

1872 - Dresdner Bank ( although Kleinwort dates back to 1786)

1876 - Panmure Gordon

1879 - Wachovia

1885 - Merrill Lynch

1889 - KBC Group

1889 - Northern Trust

1902 - Daiwa Securities

1919 - AIG

1923 - Bear Stearns

1925 - Nomura Holdings

1935 - Morgan Stanley

1945 - Cantor Fitzgerald

1952 - National Bank of Kuwait

1962 - Jefferies & Co

1986 - ICAP

1988 - BlackRock

1991 - Collins Stewart

2000 - New Star Asset Management

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