AMRO Bank

The AMsterdamsche en ROtterdamsche Bank (AMRO Bank , "Bank of Amsterdam and Rotterdam") was a major Dutch bank that was created in 1964 by the merger of the Amsterdamsche Bank (est. 1871) and the Rotterdamsche Bank (est. 1863). In 1991, it merged with Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) to form ABN AMRO. The Amsterdamsche Bank was established on by a group of mainly German investors led by the Bank für Handel und Industrie (Darmstadt), in the context of German financial expansion following its victory of the Franco-Prussian War. It expanded rapidly from its base in Amsterdam to other cities in the Netherlands. In 1948 it took over Incasso Bank (est. 1891), which it fully absorbed in 1956. Its elegant art nouveau head office building on Herengracht 597-601, designed by Eduard Cuypers and completed in 1897, was demolished in 1966. A subsequent Amsterdamsche Bank Head Officehead office building on Rembrandtplein, designed by Bert Johan Ouëndag and completed in 1932, is a notable art deco landmark of Amsterdam. File:Amsterdamsche Bank Hoofdkantoor.jpg|Amsterdamsche Bank head office, ca. 1932 File:Amsterdam Rembrandtsplein. Het standbeeld van Rembrandt met een molenmodel in he, Bestanddeelnr 904-0055.jpg|Head office viewed from [[Rembrandtplein]], 1950 File:Amsterdam-Booking.com aan Rembrandtplein (1).jpg|The same building in 2017, headquarters of [[Booking.com]] File:Amsterdam - Lippman-Rosenthal.JPG|Former Amsterdamsche Bank branch on [[Sarphatistraat]], previously the office of [[Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co.]] File:De Blaak met etalages van modehuis Gerzon, en de nieuwe Twentsche Bank, Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij en Amsterdamsche Bank 1953.jpg|The adjacent buildings of {{ill|Twentsche Bank|nl}}, [[Netherlands Trading Society]] and Amsterdamsche Bank on the {{ill|Blaak (Rotterdam){{!}}Blaak|nl|Blaak (Rotterdam)}} in [[Rotterdam]], 1953 File:Overzicht van de gevel - Rotterdam - 20422839 - RCE.jpg|Former Amsterdamsche Bank building at Blaak 40, later [[Kamer van Koophandel]] Rotterdam, in 2007 File:Amsterdam - corner Dam-Damrak architect Jan Gratama.