Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient

[1] It thus closed its offices in Beijing and Jinan and opened new agencies in Singapore in 1927, Malacca and Muar in 1929, and Ipoh in 1930. during that period, the CFEO employed dozens of architects in China, Hong Kong and Singapore who also designed buildings for third parties, such as the Yien Yieh Commercial Bank branch in Hankou or the St. Joseph's Home for the Aged in Hong Kong.

[2] By 1946, the bank’s head office French: direction) was at 11 rue Thérésienne in Brussels, one block away from its registered address (French: siège social) which remained at 13 rue Bréderode together with the Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and other affiliates of the Société Générale de Belgique.

[1] in 1955, its operations in the People's Republic of China were terminated, simultaneously as those of all other foreign banks in the country, and in the late 1950s it sold most of its real estate in Hong Kong and Singapore.

[2] For fear of nationalization,[citation needed] the CFEO was liquidated on 2 March 1959 and its assets and liabilities transferred to a newly formed Belgian entity, the Crédit Foncier International, which in turn was eventually wound up in 1991.

Belfran Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong perpetuates the CFEO's telegraphy code, itself referring to the bank's original Belgo-French identity.