Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie
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The Banque nationale pour le commerce et l'industrie was a major French bank, active from 1932 to 1966 when it merged with Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris to form Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP). It was itself the successor of the Comptoir d'Escompte de Mulhouse, a bank founded in 1848 under the Second French Republic that had become German following the Franco-Prussian War, and its French subsidiary formed in 1913, the Banque Nationale de Crédit.
Headquarters of the BNCI in Paris, 16 boulevard des Italiens
Nicolas Koechlin (1781-1852), first director of the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Mulhouse
Building at 20, rue Le Peletier in Paris, BNC head office from 1913 to 1917
Head office built by BNC and used by BNCI at 16, boulevard des Italiens
Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris
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The Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP), from 1854 to 1889 Comptoir d'escompte de Paris (CEP), was a major French bank active from 1848 to 1966.
Mosaic medallions of the five continents on the new facade of the CEP headquarters building (early 1880s), signaling the bank's ambitions of worldwide expansion
Façade of the building used from 1906 as Brussels office of the CNEP, later remodeled, photographed in 2011
1918 patriotic poster by Auguste Leroux urging citizens to subscribe to a war loan through CNEP
National loan advert (1920) displaying the CNEP's Parisian headquarters building