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Coutts & Co. (:ˈkuːts) is a private bank and wealth manager. Founded in 1692, it is the seventh oldest bank in the world, and was, until 2015, wholly owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (itself 79% owned by UK Financial Investments, an investment arm of the British government and the vehicle through which HM Treasury bailed out RBS in 2009). RBS acquired Coutts when it bought NatWest in 2000. Coutts then acquired Zürich-based Bank von Ernst & Cie in 2003 and in 2008, Coutts Bank von Ernst and other Coutts International subsidiaries became RBS Coutts Bank. These traded as RBS Coutts International to align them with the parent RBS Group until 2011, when RBS Coutts was renamed Coutts & Co. Limited. Headquartered at 440 Strand in London, Coutts was a wholly owned subsidiary of National Westminster Bank and part of the commercial and private banking division of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. In March 2015, RBS sold Coutts International to Union Bancaire Privée for an undisclosed sum, as part of a plan to focus the group on fewer markets in a simplified proposition. == History == The bank which was to become Coutts & Co, was originally a goldsmith-banker's shop. It was formed in 1692 by a young Scots goldsmith-banker, John Campbell of Lundie, Scotland. He set up business in Strand, London, under a sign of the Three Crowns, as was customary in the days before street numbers.〔E. Healey, 'The Portrait of a Private Bank 1692-1992', Hodder & Stoughton, 1992, p. 3〕 Today, the Coutts logo still has the three crowns, and its headquarters is still on the Strand. Campbell died in 1712, leaving the business to members of his family. The dominant force was Campbell's son in law, George Middleton, who had become Campbell's partner in 1708. During Middleton's stewardship, the bank was buffeted by one crisis after another. The Jacobite revolution of 1715 threatened the stability of the banking system, John Law, the Comptroller of France's finances, owed a great deal of money to the bank when the Mississippi Company bubble burst in 1720 and the English stock market collapsed in the same year. Stability for the bank did not return until 1735. John's son, George Campbell was also a partner, and ultimately became the sole partner after the death of Middleton in 1747, after which the bank was renamed the "Bankers of 59 Strand". In 1755, John Campbell's granddaughter, Mary (known as "Polly"), married a merchant and banker, James Coutts. Polly was George Campbell's niece and George immediately made James a partner. The bank became known as Campbell & Coutts, with James running the business and becoming sole partner following Polly's and George's deaths in 1760. George bequeathed most of his fortune, and the bank, to James. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coutts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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