Bank of Romania

[5] It was initially granted a privilege to issue banknotes, but that was revoked in 1869 under Cuza's successor Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

[6] It also obtained the country's Tobacco concession, and the Romanian royal family maintained an account at the bank for some time.

As such, it was no longer privileged,[2]: 329  but was one of four foreign banks active in Bucharest before World War I (the others being Banca Generala Româna, est.

[10] Nevertheless, the bank was conservatively managed by the BIO,[2]: 329  and gradually lost market share.

[2]: 332  By the early 1930s, the London head office had moved to 73-76, King William Street.

Former Bucharest head office of the Bank of Roumania at 11, Calea Victoriei , [ 1 ] now an annex of the palatial headquarters of CEC Bank across the street
Statesman Ion Ghica was the bank's first chairman in 1866