Amstelbank Explained

Amstelbank was a bank of the Netherlands founded in 1921, and liquidated in 1947. Some archives related to it are held at the Centraal Archief Nederlandsche Bank (Central Archives of the Nederlandsche Bank).[1]

Essays on the Great Depression by Ben S. Bernanke states that Amstelbank failed because of its ties to the Creditanstalt.[2]

1941 lawsuit

See "Conflict of Laws: Refugee Government Property Conservation Decrees in the Courts of the United States, Robert D. Ulrich, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Feb., 1943), pp. 706–713" for a discussion of the U.S. court case Amstelbank, N. V. v. Guaranty Trust Co. of N. Y., N. Y. L. J., Nov. 29, 1941, p. 1728, col. 6, 7 (Sup. Ct.).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BedrijfsArchieven Register Nederland (BARN) – 81: Bankwezen: Algemene en handelsbanken (Archives of banks of the Netherlands) . 2007-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717201728/http://www.neha.nl/barn/algemenebanken.html . 2011-07-17 . dead .
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=c2OSWhLjzJkC&dq=amstelbank&pg=RA2-PA96 Essays on the Great Depression by Ben S. Bernanke at Google Books