Rotterdamsche Bank

[2] The Rotterdamsche Bank was established on 16 May 1863 by a group of businessmen and bankers, who took inspiration from the British Colonial Bank and aimed at financing trade and investment in the Dutch East Indies.

After a difficult start, however, the bank soon focused on domestic business.

1900) and soon afterwards of Amsterdam brokers Determeijer Weslingh & Zn.

Under the leadership of its ambitious managing director Willem Westerman [nl], it went on to acquire a number of local banks,[4] but became overextended and had to be restructured under the aegis of De Nederlandsche Bank in the mid-1920s.

In 1928, it created the Vrouwenbank [nl] ("Women's Bank"), a bank targeted at a female customer base that lasted until 1971.