Huaxing Commercial Bank

The Huaxing Commercial Bank or Huaxing Bank, sometimes transliterated Hua-Hsing (Chinese: 華興商業銀行), was a central bank of the Japan-supported Reformed Government of the Republic of China that governed the Jiangnan region of China during early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

It started operations in Shanghai in May 1938, was reorganized as a mere commercial bank following the creation of the Central Reserve Bank in January 1941, and stopped operating in August 1945.

[1]: 6 Huaxing Commercial Bank was established on 1 May 1938 with initial capital of 50 million yuan.

233 Zhuque Road, the former location of Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank.

[5] The bank's president Liang Hongzhi was arrested in Suzhou on 19 October 1945, transferred to Shanghai and charged for treason, sentenced to death on 21 June 1946 and executed on 9 November 1946, aged 65.