It was in business from its creation in 1917 until 1986, when after a takeover by Citicorp it was merged into a new firm called Scrimgeour Vickers.
The firm's founder was (Horace) Cecil Vickers (1882-1944), who had started work in the office of a Licensed Broker in 1895, shortly before his 13th birthday.
He became a partner in the well-known stockbroking firm of Nelke, Phillips & Bendix of Throgmorton Street,[1] which dealt for King Edward VII.
He led the firm during its period of prominence, growing it to having over 700 employees, with offices in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Monte Carlo, and the Bahamas.
[6] In the mid-1980s on the eve of London's Big Bang deregulation of the London Stock Exchange, Citibank acquired stakes in the member firms of Scrimgeour Kemp-Gee and Vickers da Costa, merging them into a new entity called Scrimgeour Vickers.