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Hongkong, Pekin, Canton, Hankow, Tientsin, and Tsingtau, in
China; Yokohama and Kobe, in Japan; Singapore; and Calcutta.
It has branches also at Berlin and Hamburg. It was established in
1889, with the participation of seven Berlin banks; Deutsche Bank,
Disconto-Gesellschaft, Dresdner Bank, Darmstidter Bank, Berliner
Handelsgesellschaft, A. Schaaffhausen’scher Bankverein, and
Nationalbank fiir Deutschland.
In 1907 a number of German banks participated in the establishment
 of the State Bank of Morocco.
For the promotion of trade in Tunisia, the Banca Commerciale
Italiana (established partly by German banks), founded in 1907
the Banca Commerciale Tunisina, with head office at Paris.
At Dar-es-Salaam, in German East Africa, and at Mombasa and
Zanzibar, in British East Africa, are branches of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische
 Bank, which was founded in 1905, with head office
in Berlin. The Deutsche Bank, the Disconto-Gesellschaft, and
probably other great German banks, participated in it, as well as
the German East African Trading Co.
In German Southwest Africa are three branches of the Deutsche
Afrika-Bank Aktiengesellschaft, which was founded in 1905, with
head office at Hamburg, by the Disconto-Gesellschaft and the firm
of C. Woermann of Hamburg.
In German West Africa (Togo and Kamerun) are two branches
of the Deutsch-Westafrikanische Bank, which was founded in 1904,
with main office at Berlin and a branch at Hamburg, by the Dresdner
Bank, in conjunction with the German West-African Trading Co.
and several commercial firms.
In Mexico are two branches of the Deutsch-Siidamerikanische
Bank Akt. Ges., or Banco Germénico de la America del Sud. This
was founded about the end of 1905 by the Dresdner Bank jointly
with the A. Schaaffhausen’scher Bankverein.
In 1906 the Deutsche Bank, with Speyer &amp; Co., of New York,
founded the Mexikanische Bank fiir Handel und Industrie (Banco
Mejicano de Comercio é Industria) with its main office in New
York?
The Deutsch-Siidamerikanische Bank has branches at Rio de
Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, and Santiago.
The Banco Commerciale Italo-Brasiliano, at Sio Paulo, Brazil, is
partly owned by the Banca Commerciale Italiana, which in turn was
founded by a syndicate in which six great German banks participated.
 .
The Disconto-Gesellschaft became in 1890 a silent partner in the
old and important banking firm of Ernesto Tornquist &amp; Co., at
Buenos Aires, which has existed since 1830. :

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1 Riesser, op. cit., pp. 438-439.