Heritage Bank Limited is Australia's second-largest mutual bank. Its head office is in Toowoomba, Queensland.
The original Head Office of the Toowoomba Permanent Building Society, located on Russell St, Toowoomba
Heritage Plaza Tower is the current Head Office for Heritage Bank
Kerry Betros (Heritage Bank Chairman) with Jeremy and Lucy Osborn (members) with 2015 Calendar House painting of Bunya Park
A mutual savings bank is a financial institution chartered by a central or regional government, without capital stock, owned by its members who subscribe to a common fund. From this fund, claims, loans, etc., are paid. Profits after deductions are shared among the members. The institution is intended to provide a safe place for individual members to save and to invest those savings in mortgages, loans, stocks, bonds and other securities and to share in any profits or losses that result.
Mutual savings banks are common in New England. New Bedford Institution For Savings was founded in 1825, and converted from mutual to stock status in 1987.