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Trustee of The Netherlands
Antilles
By Dr. Jaap van Soest
It is only in the last few years that the Netherlands Antilles
have become a highly developed international financial centre, but the foundations for the prominent position which our country now occupies in this field were laid in the remote past. The doyen of the Antillean financial institutions is the Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen, the central bank which since 1962 has been the continuation of the Curaçaosche Bank, the institution which in 1907 in turn succeeded the nameless Government Bank founded as long ago as 1828. The Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen is older than the Spaar- en Beleenbank van
Curaçao (1850), the Curaçaosche Hypotheekbank (1875), Maduro's Bank (1916, since 1932 Maduro & Curiel's Bank), the Hollandsche Bank voor West-Indië (1918, since absorbed by the Algemene Bank Nederland), the Aruba Bank (1936), and the numerous credit institutions which were founded in the Netherlands Antilles after the Second World War.
The Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen is also a venerable
member of the international banking community. It is by far the oldest still
extant bank of circulation in the western hemisphere. And if the principal
functions of a central bank are regarded as including..... (For more go to
Introduction)
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