The New Hampshire Banking Department is a state agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, headquartered in Concord.
The department supervises all state-chartered financial institutions including commercial banks, merchant banks, and credit unions.
[1] As of June 2020[update], there were 61 charted institutions with a total of 329 branches in the state.
[1] The department dates to 1837, when Isaac Hill, the state's 16th governor, approved the state's first bank commissioners.
[1] Since 1925, the department has been led by a single commissioner,[1] authorized under New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated (NH RSA) Chapter 383.