Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd

The bank's history traces from 1916 when the National Bank of South Africa (now First National Bank) opened a branch at Mombasa.[6] In 1925, National Bank of South Africa was merged with the Anglo-Egyptian Bank and the Colonial Bank in 1925 to form Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas).[7] This brought the Kenyan operations under Barclays Bank. The bank was licensed in its present form in 1953 and in 1978 it was incorporated locally as Barclays Bank of Kenya, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Bank International. The bank listed its shares on the Nairobi Stock Exchange in 1986 through a successful IPO