Westminster Bank Westminster Bank Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1834, the London and Westminster Bank was the first firm founded under the auspices of the Bank Charter Act 1833, which allowed joint-stock banks to be established in the capital. For
Bank of Queensland claims that the Bank of Queensland was established then: The Brisbane Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society incorporated in 1887, amalgamated with City and Suburban Building Society in 1921, and with Queensland Deposit Bank a decade later. The company received a trading bank licence in 1942. Until then, what became the Bank of Queensland was a savings bank cum building society. The company changed its name to Bank of Queensland (BOQ) and computerised its operations in 1970, and in 1971, the bank was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The bank incorporated Bank of Queensland Savings Bank as a wholly