List of banking families

Banking families are families that have been involved in banking for multiple generations, generally in the modern era as owners or co-owners of banks, which are often named after their families. Banking families have been important in the history of banking, especially before the 20th century. Banking families have existed and continue to exist in numerous countries.

Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence

Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family

Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII

Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family

Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the English branch of the Rothschild family

André Oscar Wallenberg founder of Wallenberg family, by Gustav Uno Troili

Captain Robert Melville Grindlay, of the Grindlay family and founder of Grindlays Bank

Antiquity

• House of Egibi of Mesopotamia
• Murashu family of Mesopotamia

Modern

Family	Companies	Place of origin	Principal countries of residence
Aguiar	Banco Bradesco	Osasco	Brazil
Altoviti		Florence	Republic of Florence
Andries Pels & Sons		Amsterdam	Dutch Republic
Barclay[1]	Barclays	London	UK
Bardi	Compagnia dei Bardi	Florence	Republic of Florence
Baring	Barings Bank, Baring Vostok Capital Partners	Bremen	Germany, UK
Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler	Berenberg Bank	Antwerp	Belgium, Germany
Bordier	Bordier & Cie	Geneva	Switzerland
Birla[2]	UCO Bank[3]	Pilani	India
Bose[4][5]	Credit Capital Finance,[6] Etonhurst,[7][8] Lazard CreditCapital,[9] Tamara Capital Advisors[10]	Mumbai	India
Botín	Banco Santander, Bankinter	Santander	Spain
Brandts		Hamburg	Germany, UK
Cerchi		Valdarno, Tuscany	Republic of Florence
Chigi	Banco Chigi	Siena	Republic of Siena
Clifford		Clifford, Herefordshire	UK, Netherlands
Corsi		Florence	Republic of Florence
Coutts	Coutts & Company	London	UK
d’Erlanger[11]	Erlanger & Sons (later part of Dresdner Bank), Emile Erlanger & Co. (later part of Lloyds TSB)	Frankfurt	Germany, France, UK
Espírito Santo	Banco Espírito Santo	Lisbon	Portugal
Fugger		Augsburg	Germany
Finck	Merck, Finck & Co	Munich	Germany
Goldman–Sachs	Goldman Sachs	New York	USA
Gondi		Florence	Republic of Florence
Grindlay	Grindlays Bank (later part of Standard Chartered)	London	UK
Habib	Habib Bank Limited	Bombay	Pakistan
Hinduja	IndusInd Bank,[12] S.P. Hinduja Banque Privée[13]	India	India, UK, Switzerland
Hoare	C. Hoare & Co	London	UK
Hochstetter		Höchstädt	Germany
Hope	Hope & Co. (later part of ABN-Amro)	Amsterdam	Netherlands
Jagat Seth[14]		Nagaur	Bengal Subah
Khanna	Bridge Capital Advisors,[15] Etonhurst,[7] FiNoble Advisors,[16] Yog Capital Advisors[15]	Delhi	India, UK
Koç	Yapı Kredi	Istanbul	Turkey
Kotak[17][18]	Kotak Mahindra Bank	Mumbai	India
Ladenburg	Bankhaus Ladenburg	Mannheim	Germany
Lazard	Lazard	New Orleans	USA
Li	Bank of East Asia	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Liechtenstein	LGT Group	Liechtenstein Castle, Lower Austria, Austria	Principality of Liechtenstein
M. Ct.[19]	Indian Overseas Bank	Tamil Nadu	India
Mallet	Neuflize OBC [fr]	Rouen, Geneva	France, Switzerland
Medici		Florence	Liechtenstein
Mellon	Bank of New York Mellon	Pittsburgh, PA	USA
Metzler	Metzler Bank	Frankfurt	Germany
Miles	Miles & Co (later part of NatWest)	Bristol	UK
Montagu	Samuel Montagu & Co. (later part of HSBC)	London	UK
Moreira Salles	Unibanco, Itaú Unibanco	São Paulo	Brazil
Morgan	Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase	New York	USA
Oppenheim	Sal. Oppenheim, Deutsche Bank	Cologne	Germany
Ovadiah[citation needed]	Wadiah Capital	Iraq	Switzerland, Panama, Great Britain, Israel
Ovia	Zenith Bank	Lagos	Nigeria
Peruzzi		Florence	Republic of Florence
Pictet	Pictet Group	Geneva	Switzerland
Przanowski	SKOK II Credit Union in Warsaw, Bank Polski (today PKO Bank Polski, Bank Śląski (later part of ING Bank Śląski), Bank Dyskontowy (later part of Narodowy Bank Polski)	Warsaw	Poland
Rockefeller	Rockefeller Financial Services (Rockefeller & Co), Chase Bank	Cleveland, OH, New York, NY	USA
Rothschild	Rothschild & Co (Rothschild Martin Maurel), RIT Capital Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Group (Edmond de Rothschild Heritage, Edmond de Rothschild Foundations)	Frankfurt	UK, France, Switzerland
S. Rm. M.[20]	Indian Bank	Tamil Nadu	India
Sabancı	Akbank	Istanbul	Turkey
Safra	Safra Group (Banco Safra, J. Safra Sarasin, Safra National Bank of New York)	Beirut	Brazil
Salviati		Florence	Republic of Florence
Scali		Florence	Republic of Florence
Schröder	Schroders	Hamburg	Germany
Setúbal	Itaúsa (Banco Itaú, Itaú Unibanco)	São Paulo	Brazil
Sharon		Nazareth	Israel
Simonetti		Rome	Italy, UK, Israel
Smith	Smith's Bank (later part of NatWest)	Nottingham	UK
Solaro		Asti	Italy
Strozzi		Florence	Republic of Florence
Van De Put	Van De Put & Co Private Bankers[citation needed][importance?]	Antwerp	Belgium
Van Lanschot	F. van Lanschot Bankiers	Zundert	Netherlands
Villela	Itaúsa (Banco Itaú, Itaú Unibanco)	São Paulo	Brazil
Wallenberg	Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Investor, Patricia Industries, FAM AB, Wallenberg Foundations	Linköping, Stockholm, Lund	Sweden
Warburg	M. M. Warburg & Co., Warburg Pincus, UBS	Hamburg	Germany
Welser		Augsburg	Germany

See also

• Banks portal

• Private bank
• Private banking

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