12 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE. \

In addition to these relations with foreign banks, which offer
axtensive foreign facilities to British traders, there is a large number
of British banks established in foreign countries which specialize
in foreign trade business and are of particular assistance to British
merchants. Throughout Africa British trade is served by highly
efficient British banks. The Standard Bank of South Africa (Ltd.),
sstablshed more than 50 years ago, has 230 branches and agencies
in South Africa, Rhodesia and British and Portuguese East Africa.
Its paid-up capital and reserve funds total nearly $20,000,000 and
its deposits approximate $110,000,000. The African Banking
Corporation (Ltd.) operates over 40 branches in South Africa. All
along the African coast from the Madeiras to Loanda are 58 branches
and agencies of the Bank of British West Africa (Ltd.). On the
upper east coast are the branches of the National Bank of India
(Ltd.), and in Egypt are 11 branches of the Anglo-Egyptian
Bank (Ltd.), which was established more than 50 years ago. The
head offices of all these banks are in London. In addition, the
National Bank of Egypt, a British institution, whose head office
is in Cairo, has 20 branches in Egypt and the Sudan, and the
Bank of Abyssinia, another British bank with its main office in
Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, and its registered office at Cairo, has 5
agencies in Abyssinia.
In addition to their branches in all the chief coast cities, these
banks also have branches ii the interior; thus, there are British
banks at Burghersdorp, Mafeking, Kronstad, Bulawayo, Gwelo, Umtali,
 Umtata, Entebbe, Ibidan, Lokoja, Nairobi, at Leopoldville,
300 miles up the Congo, Zungeru, 400 miles up the Niger, Livingstone,
800 miles up the Zambesi, Khartum, over 1,000 miles up the Nile,
and at dozens of other interior points.
For trade with the Levant there is the Anglo-Levantine Banking
Co. (Ltd.), with a branch in Constantinople; the British Oriental
Bank (Ltd.), with its head office in Smyrna; the Anglo-Palestine
Company (Ltd.), with 8 branches at the far eastern end of the
Mediterranean, and the Ionian Bank (Ltd.), founded in 1839, and
sperating 17 branches and subbranches in Greece, the Grecian Islands
and Egypt. The head offices of most of these banking companies
are in t.ondon.’ i
For the convenience of trade with India, in addition to a score of
prominent British banks with head offices in India and branches
throughout British India, there are a number of important banking
companies, whose head offices are in London, which furnish excellent
facilities throughout Southern Asia. Among others, the Delhi and
London Bank (Litd.), established more than 70 years ago, operates
8 branches in India; the National Bank of India (Ltd.), established
 more than 50 years ago, has 26 branches in India; the Mercan-