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The First XXth Century
Banks of Panama
By Joaquin Gil del Real
T HE FIRST PRIVATE BANK TO ESTABLISH OPERATIONS IN
Panama in the 20th Century was the International Banking
Corporation. Originally organized in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in
June of 1901, the Bank quickly grew to have many international
branches. On August 17, 1904, 1 the Bank registered its Statutes, and opened
its doors to the public on the 19th of that same month. Their office was
located in front of the Panama Canal building, with Mr. P.G. Eastwick as the
first Branch Manager. 2
J.S. Bache (brokers on the New York Stock Exchange) announced on
the 21st of November 1915, that it had acquired all of the shares of IBC at
$160.00 each. A few days later it was reported that the buyer was the
National City Bank. 3 IBC continued operating in Panama, under its own
name. It was not until March of 1926 that the branches in Panama and
Colon were transferred to the National City Bank of New York. 4 The
Bank, today known as Citicorp, is still active in Panama, getting ready to
celebrate its 100th anniversary. Panama Banking Company in Colon.
Though established by Law 74
of 13 June 1904, the Banco Sine!' Colon (Panama).
Hipotecario y Prendario, 5 a govern-
ment bank, did not open its doors to
the public until October 12th of that
year. The Bank's first Manager was
Mr. Albino Arosemena. 6 In 1911,
the Law creating the bank was
reformed, and the name was
changed to Banco Nacional de
Panama, 7 which it still carries to
this date.
The Panama Banking
Company, organized under the laws
of the State of West Virginia, regis-
tered its Statues on March 7, 1905. 8
The bank opened its doors in a locale
in front of the Palace of Government.
Its Manager was Mr. P.D. Fellinger. 9
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Above: Check on the Bank of the Unfortunately by 1922 the bank was having problems and the Brandon
Canal Zone, 191-. Family, owners or the bank, assigned its shares to its three creditors,
American Foreign Bank (Chase Manhattan), Banco Nacional de Panama
Below: Bank of the Canal Zone and the International Banking Corporation (Citicorp) for liquidation
advertisement.
according to the law. 10
The Banco Industrial de Santiago de Cuba formalized its documenta-
tion on July 15, 1909 11 beginning operations that same day in an office on
Central Avenue, telephone 188, with Mr. Pedro Arias F. as its representa-
tive. 12 We were unable to come up with the fortunes of this bank, though it
was listed in the 1912/13 Isthmian Tourist Guide and Business Directory, of
Ancon, Canal Zone.
In the City of Colon, on December 12, 1912, the papers for the Bank or
the Canal Zone were protocolized. This bank was also organized under the
laws of the State or West Virginia. 13 The bank began operations on
November 30, 1912. 14 (This was two weeks before registering its docu-
ments, which did cause a small furor.) Its location was on 11th Street, right
in front of the Commissary. Ramon Arias F., brother of Pedro of the Cuban
Bank, was the Vice-President in charge. In 1915, it opened a branch on
Central Avenue of the Capitol City. 15 By February of 1917, the bank was in
financial difficulties and beginning the process of liquidation. 16 The First
World War did have a negative impact on
some banks in Panama.
On September 5th, 1913, another
West Virginia organized bank, the
Continental Banking Corporation, regis-
tered its documents. 17 The bank began to
do business the following day in an office
on Central Avenue in front or the new
Railroad Station. 18 Sadly, this institution
suffered the same fate as the Bank of the
Canal Zone, and its termination began in
February of 1917. 19
Seven months after its separation
from Colombia, on November 3, 1903, the
National Assembly of the Republic of
Panama proclaimed Law 84 of June 1904,
whereby the monetary unit for the country
would be the Balboa. Upon issuance or this Law, Panama communicated to
the American authorities its acquiescence to formalize the Monetary
Convention with the United States, whereby American and Panamanian
coinage would circulate freely throughout the Country at par, including in
those areas under U.S. administration.
Articles 116 and 117 of the Constitution of the Republic prohibited any
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private banks from issuing paper money or bank bills. However, in the
decade of the 1910s various Panamanian Statesmen recommended the
necessity of granting the Banco Nacional de Panama the faculty to issue
bank bills, and in January of 1911 the Legislative Assembly passed Law 45
of 28 January 1911 granting powers to the Banco Nacional to issue paper
money, i.e.
Article 3: The Banco Nacional is authorized to issue Bank notes to
the sum of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND (B /500,000) in denomi-
nations of one, two, five, ten, twenty and fifty Balboas.
Nothing ever came of this.
During the Presidency of Dr. Belisario Porras, Law 19 of 31 January,
1913, was passed by which the Executive could celebrate a contract autho-
rizing the founding of the Banco de Panama, to which was granted the fac-
ulty of emitting bank bills. Regardless of all these nationalistic measures the
bank bills never did come to fruition, the Republic without doubt having
been compromised by the previously mentioned Monetary Convention.
The situation reached a humiliating extreme in 1917, when Panama
was obligated to comply with the demand of the Governor of the Canal
Zone to withdraw one million Balboas in Panamanian currency from circu-
lation. 20
On June 31, 1915, Mr. Rolfe Emerson Billing presented for their certifi-
cation documents indicating his election as Manager of the Panama Branch
of the Commercial National Bank. 21 The branch had begun operations on
the 1st of March of that year 22 in a locale that was rented from Mrs.
Dolores Icaza de Arias. It consisted of the first two floors of a house on the
corner of Sixth and Independence Park. 23
Shortly thereafter Chancellor (Minister of Foreign Affairs) Ernesto T.
Lefevre wrote on July 24 to the American Ambassador protesting the instal-
lation of banking services, 24 and on May 24th 1916 (the following year) the
Commercial National Bank, officially registered its Statutes.25 (The
Commercial National Bank had a strong representation in Washington D.C.
and functioned as a depository for funds related to the Panama Canal.)
The Commercial Code of the Republic was modified by the National
assembly by means of Law 37 on February 27, 1917. Article 5 of the new
modification specified that no bank may be established until it has been
International Banking Corporation
previously authorized to do so. 26 In compliance with the new Article, the
(at left), Cathedral Park, Panama
International Banking Corporation obtained its authorization via Decree
City.
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INTERNACIONAL BANKING CORPORATION
LLTABLISED 1,, 1902
SIXTY, WALL STREET. NEW YORK
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BOMBAr CACUI TA. CANTON. CEBU COLON EMPIRE C, Z. HA NKOW, HONG HONG 1.100E
LONDON MANILA MEXICO CITY PANAMA.. PEKING SAN FRANCISCO S A NONA,
SINGAPORE. YOKOHAMA
THE PANAMA BRANCH WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1904
CORRESPONDENTS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
: D.'', Cob. "• transfo...
• "; 3- CMFOUF, L-1 3 -,0,11" He WORLD,
J FORSYTH-MANAGER
EcT( /RS.
Tomas H. Hubbard. Chairman.
Chart, B. Alexander, Jan, S. Bache, Coy Garr, Hal,. Fiske,
Fronk P. Frazier Linnet Hop:naffs. John R. Heoman.
Will/OM Hand., Erskine Hewitt. II,llia T Hincks. Cni,ntle Hod.
John Hubbard. Minor C. Keith. Henry P. McIntosh. George H. M fey.
Pierre Huh. Was Barclay Po,nas. Willam Sodom,,. Hermann Sielken.
Valentine P. Snider Sir Wiliam C. 8. Horne. Janes ,,,:ilberf While
TWENTI-THIRD SEMI-ANUAL STATEMENT OF
INTERNACIONAL BANKING CORPORATION
AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31. 1913
ASSETS LIABILITIES
Seca- its, and larcianents. Capitol 5,:1250,000,00
oetluhdeirn rge abla tnskl, pler eomf wisheicsh a sned- Surplus 3250,000,08
curities aggrefating 5 2.796, Profit and lms 773,688,61
5co0v0e,0r0 l ohra vaec.c ebpeteann cioeds,g dede nas, Dividend payable M sy 1.1914
tits, etc, 1,996,691,69 Deposits•Inne . . . . . . 1111,,339147110,,03 33066°,3202,03 .
Ti&,,,ar nLeonatn, slo aannds Banilld D aidsrcionaaynt e d 95,,192221,,489359,.7829 Deposits-demand 11.092 454,90
Bills and rpnlittance.r on hand Acceptances. hill:4.1d aceonnts
and in trinaut, including bills payable, including loan,
lodged as cover againts acce.
planet; by London booboos from and acceptances by
Bufollri o5n3. 0a5n5d.1 f0ii0re.0t0l, np emr ocnonetyr ao n. 9 754.565,37 London bauker,agAints
hung. 540,677.10 :unity. per contra . . . 6,630,387.93
en/D.nyfro ne hanks and corr espond. 1,654,739,96 Note,, is circulation in China . 496.055,00 Left: International Banking Corporation balance
Cosh on hand Dire to hank and hankers . . 19(1,189,94 sheet from the Boletin Oficial de la Exposicion
Coanrliedr cinio b/ acuredd dit eppeor scioPnrlireo, 47.,719778,,2473S3,.6090 Corarrcial credit acceptance, 4 797,375,00 Nacional de Panama (Panama-Pacific Exposition
9 40.968 687,61 /10.968,637,61 in San Francisco) held 1914/1915. Note the
We have ,eamined the hooks and accounts of the Internacional Banking Corporation branches in Panama and the Canal Zone, among
at its Head Oifice. Now York, San Brancisco. and Mexico Branch., as at December 31.
19u1rs3e alvneds htahvaet ipnrsoppeectre idn Iolmu tc oeprtiinfiieodn rtehteu ranbso fvreo mBa alalln octeh eSrh bereatn sc,h perso. pWeret yh advrae wsnat iu<pl iendo more than a dozen worldwide.
s to show the true financial position of the Corpor3tinn Occcenbee, 31. 1913.
New York, PRICE, WATERHOUSE 9 1,0.,
Maicl, 26, 1919 Chartered acconAlauts.
Below: IBC building in Colon.
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International Banking Corporation No. 159 of October 1917; The Panama Banking Company, by Decree
building in Panama City. Number 158; and the Commercial National Bank by Decree 157, all on the
same day. 27
Mr. George Schyler Schaefer registered documents on May 29, 1918,
relating to the American Foreign Bank Corporation, 28 and on the 1st of
June 1918 legalized a General balance sheet of said institution. 29 It received
authorization on June 25, 1918, to operate in Panama, having acquired the
assets and banking establishments of the Commercial National Bank in
Panama and Cristobal, Canal Zone. 30 31 By 1925 the Chase National Bank
,
of the City or New York registered its corporate papers 32 and by means of
Decree Number 5 of 12 January 1925 obtained all the shares of the
American Foreign Bank, reopening as the Chase the following day.
In the "Blue Book" of Panama 1916-1917 we came across a reference to
the Guabito Banking and Mercantile Company, which was organized on
American Foreign Bank at left, the 14th of October 1916 by a future President of the Republic, Dr.
Panama City. Harmodio Arias M. This bank operated in the Bocas del Toro Province of