Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- BCCI
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1972-1991
History
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. Within a decade, it operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US$ 20 billion making it the 7th largest private bank in the world by assets.
On July 5, 1991, regulators shut BCCI down.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Alexander, Alan, b. 1943, university professor
Identifier of related entity
P0673
Category of relationship
associative
Dates of relationship
1991
Description of relationship
In 1991, Alan Alexander was commissioned by by the Western Isles Island Council to conduct an independent enquiry into the losses sustained by the Council in the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Related entity
Western Isles Island Council
Identifier of related entity
C0059
Category of relationship
associative
Dates of relationship
1991
Description of relationship
The Council sustained losses in the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
C0057
Institution identifier
GB 249
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2003); Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names, National Council on Archives (1997).
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Victoria Peters, March 2010.