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The first modern bank in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a> was Bank of Hindustan, established in 1770 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a>.
 It was an offshoot of trading company Messrs. Alexander and Co. and 
operated until 1832 when the trading company failed. The circulation of 
its notes was limited to Calcutta and its immediate environs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooke1863200–201-1">[1]</a>
A number of Calcutta-based banks followed, none which survived beyond the middle of the 19th century: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Bank_of_Bengal_and_Bihar" title="General Bank of Bengal and Bihar">General Bank of Bengal and Bihar</a> (1733–75); <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Bank_(1784)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengal Bank (1784)">Bengal Bank</a> (1784–91) (no relation to the later Bank of Bengal); General Bank, later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Bank_of_India" title="General Bank of India">General Bank of India</a> (1786–91); <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commercial_Bank_(1819)" title="The Commercial Bank (1819)">The Commercial Bank (1819)</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calcutta_Bank_(1824)" title="The Calcutta Bank (1824)">The Calcutta Bank (1824)</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Union_Bank_(1828)" title="The Union Bank (1828)">The Union Bank (1828)</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Government_Savings_Bank_(1833)" title="The Government Savings Bank (1833)">The Government Savings Bank (1833)</a>; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bank_of_Mirzapore_(1835)" title="The Bank of Mirzapore (1835)">The Bank of Mirzapore (1835)</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooke1863177,_186,_202–204,_336,_390–392-2">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-3">[3]</a>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Calcutta" title="Bank of Calcutta">Bank of Calcutta</a>,
 established in 1806, is the oldest still in existence in some form. It 
was renamed Bank of Bengal in 1809, was merged into the Imperial Bank of
 India in 1921, and became the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bank_of_India" title="State Bank of India">State Bank of India</a> in 1955.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooke186395-4">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-5">[5]</a>
The first modern bank headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a>
 was Dacca Bank, established in 1846. It did a very limited business and
 did not issue banknotes. It was purchased by Bank of Bengal in 1862.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooke1863234–236-6">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-7">[7]</a> Bank of Bengal opened branches in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirajganj" title="Sirajganj">Sirajganj</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong" title="Chittagong">Chittagong</a> in 1873, and in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandpur,_Bangladesh" title="Chandpur, Bangladesh">Chandpur</a> in 1900. In 1947, upon the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_(1947)" title="Partition of Bengal (1947)">Partition of Bengal</a>, it had six branches in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bengal" title="East Bengal">East Bengal</a>, in Dhaka, Chittagong, Chandpur, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh" title="Mymensingh">Mymensingh</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangpur_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangpur City">Rangpur</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayanganj" title="Narayanganj">Narayanganj</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Bangladesh#cite_note-8">[8]</a>
Following the partition, branches of the registered banks started
 shifting to India or close down their operations in East Bengal. 
Resulting only 69 branches were left all over the East Pakistan in 1951.
In 1959, Eastern Mercantile Bank Limited was established and had 
106 before independence. Consequently, in 1965 Eastern Banking 
Corporation was established and soon reached 60 just before the 
liberation war. These two banks were established with the initiation of 
some renowned Bengali businessmen for providing credit to the local 
entrepreneurs who had limited access to the credit in those days from 
other financial institutions of West Pakistan.

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