Hope & Co. was a Dutch bank that existed for two and a half centuries, based in Amsterdam until 1795 and originally focused on trade with Great Britain. In the second half of the eighteenth century it became the most powerful merchant bank of Amsterdam, and therefore of Europe, since Amsterdam was at that time the continent's leading financial centre. From 1750 it played a major part in financing the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company through the brothers Thomas and Adrian Hope, and during the Seven Years' War it profited from the Netherlands' neutral position to become very wealthy.
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1. Hope & Co. (Wikipedia)
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1720
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Amsterdam
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was a Dutch bank that existed for two and a half centuries.
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Hope & Co. was a Dutch bank that existed for two and a half centuries.
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