The Ballarat Banking Company was a long-lasting regional bank based in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, operating from 1865 to 1955.
It commenced operation in June 1865, having occupied the former Ballarat premises of the Oriental Bank Corporation.
[1][2] It was one of the banks to suspend payments in the 1892-93 banking crisis, closing in March 1892 but reopening in June 1892 after negotiations with creditors.
[6] It "confined its activities to the Ballarat district", but "[flourished] in its original form" for nearly a century.
[12] Its closure reduced the amount of independent private trading banks in Australia to six.