In many countries' contemporary usage, national bank is often used as a synonym for central bank.
In present-day Australia and United States, and in late-19th-century Japan, the expression refers to a category of banks chartered at the national (federal) level:
In other countries, National Bank may also refer to the following individual institutions:
Central banks
edit- National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia
- National Bank of Angola
- National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
- National Bank of Belgium
- Bulgarian National Bank
- National Bank of Cambodia
- Croatian National Bank
- Czech National Bank
- Danmarks Nationalbank
- National Bank of Ethiopia
- National Bank of Georgia
- Hungarian National Bank
- National Bank of Kazakhstan
- National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
- National Bank of Liechtenstein
- National Bank of Moldova
- National Bank of North Macedonia
- National Bank of Poland
- National Bank of Romania
- National Bank of Rwanda
- National Bank of Serbia
- National Bank of Slovakia
- Swiss National Bank
- National Bank of Tajikistan
- National Bank of Ukraine
Former central banks:
Commercial banks
edit- National Australia Bank
- Queensland National Bank in Australia
- National Bank of Australasia in Australia
- National Bank of Bahrain
- National Bank Limited in Bangladesh
- National Bank of Canada
- National Bank of Egypt
- Nationalbank für Deutschland, a defunct German bank
- National-Bank in Germany
- First National Bank Ghana
- National Bank of Greece
- Punjab National Bank in India
- National Bank of Kenya
- National Bank of Kuwait
- First National Bank (Lebanon)
- National Bank of New Zealand
- National Bank of Pakistan, a multinational commercial bank that is a subsidiary of the country's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan
- The National Bank (Palestine)
- Philippine National Bank
- Saudi National Bank
- First National Bank (South Africa)
- Hatton National Bank in Sri Lanka
- National Bank of Commerce (Tanzania)
- National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE
- National Bank of Dubai, UAE
- National Bank Ltd in the United Kingdom
- National Bank of Scotland, merged in 1969 with Royal Bank of Scotland
- National Bank of Uzbekistan
Other uses
edit- The National Bank (band), a Norwegian rock band
- National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, a regulatory body in India