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About DSB Bank
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DSB Bank is the largest bank
in Suriname with more than 350 employees. The history of the
DSB Bank, De Surinaamsche Bank, dates back to 1865. The DSB
Bank offers banking services, such as checking and savings
accounts, loans, transfers, asset management, brand name
registration, insurances and treasury to private persons as
well as to business relations in Suriname. For more
information, click on the links in the menu bar.
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Mission
Statement |
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Our mission is to offer
a wide diversity of top-quality products through the
services of enthusiastic and expert staff. Our
leadership position and professional knowledge of
the banking industry, our extensive domestic branch
network and participation in international strategic
alliances provide a solid basis for realizing this
vision. Our constant aspiration in this connection
is to create a win-win situation both for the bank
and for the customer, resulting in a sustained
increase in profitability. The win-win situation
entails among other things: creating the most
favorable possible benefits for our customers,
shareholders and society in general. |
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Our Corporate
Values |
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Integrity
Above all criteria, integrity holds true
more than anything. Integrity in our way of thinking
and our actions, always and everywhere. |
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Respect
Each individual with self-respect has our
respect. Our strength lies in the conviction of the
value of variety of input and the belief in equal
opportunities for all. We value and stimulate
personal growth, development and entrepreneurship of
each individual employee, which benefits all parties
involved. |
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Teamwork
Teamwork is the key to our success as the
largest bank of Suriname. Loyalty towards the
organization as a whole is our primary directive.
This honesty obliges us to continuously update and
expand our knowledge and experience and to apply it
on an international level to the interest of the
company and our clients. |
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Professionalism
Optimal and consistent service makes high
demands upon our professionalism. For that reason,
we constantly pursue innovation, creativity and
decisiveness. In order to build and maintain a
closer relationship with our clients we do not
settle for providing less than the highest quality
of service. |
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Environment
The DSB Bank, as the largest bank, knows
its responsibilities and cannot avoid the
developments in the environment and the high demands
that are made upon Government authorities and
companies. Therefore, we set high standards to
ourselves and demand the same from others who are in
contact with us. |
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History |
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The initiative to
establish a bank in Suriname was taken by Simon
Abendanon, who was a captain and process-server in
Suriname. The idea occurred to Mr. Abendanon as a
result of the monetary chaos in Suriname at the
time. In 1863, when slavery was abolished, he
expected that agriculture would flourish and, as a
consequence, trade activities would expand. In order
to stimulate this growth, he conceived the idea to
establish a bank.
Organization Chart
current situation
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Surinaamsche Bank was established on January 19,
1865. The general management of the bank had its
seat in Amsterdam up until 1951, after which the
seat was moved to Paramaribo. Till that moment, all
shares were in the hands of De Nederlandsche
Handelmaatschappij that merged with the Twentse Bank
to become the Algemene Bank Nederland. When the
Surinamese Government felt that too large a part of
the Surinamese banking business was in foreign
hands, the bank was converted into a Surinamese
corporation on January 1, 1977. With this action,
41% of the shares ended up in the hands of the
Surinamese people and 10% was held by the Republic
of Suriname. The remaining 49% of the shares
remained in the hands of the ABN AMRO Bank that was
the result of the merger between the Algemene Bank
Nederland and the Amro Bank. On March 8, 2001, a
purchase agreement was signed between the ABN AMRO
Bank and the insurance company of Assuria with
regard to all the shares (49%). On July 25, 2001,
the transfer of the shares from the ABN AMRO Bank to
Assuria took place.
De Surinaamsche Bank, up until the establishment of
the Central Bank of Suriname in 1957, also fulfilled
the role of circulation bank, a role that the Bank
still fulfills up till the present day in
Nieuw-Nickerie (Nickerie District) and Moengo (Marowijne
District) on behalf of the Central Bank. In the
meantime, De Surinaamsche Bank has developed into
the leading bank in Suriname. Its headquarters are
located at the Henck Arronstraat 26 and are
supported by 5 branch offices in the other areas as
well as 2 branch offices in Nieuw-Nickerie, Moengo
and Zanderij respectively.
The Bank is full owner of 4 subsidiary companies,
namely the Surinaamse Trustmaatschappij N.V. (Suritrust),
The Financing Company Paramaribo (Finapar), N.V.
Kankantrie Investment Company and Surinaamse
Computer Maatschappij N.V. |
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