What is Bank of Hong Kong?
{{Infobox company |name = Bank of Hong Kong Limited |logo = [[File:Bank_of_China_Holdings_Logo.svg|200px]] | industry = [[Financial Services]] | type = |traded_as = BOHK Holdings |foundation = {{ubl|{{start date and age|1964|10|16|df=yes}} (incorporation of the legal entity [[Po Sang Bank]])|{{start date and age|2001|10|1|df=yes}} (current name)}} | hq_location = Bank of Hong Kong Tower, [[Central, Hong Kong|Central]] | hq_location_city = [[Hong Kong]] |key_people = [[Xiao Gang]], chairman <br /> [[He Guangbei]], CEO |num_employees = | products = [[Retail banking]], [[commercial banking]], [[investment banking]], [[mortgage loan]]s, [[private banking]], [[wealth management]], [[credit cards]], [[finance and insurance]] |revenue = |net_income = |assets = |homepage = www.bohk.com }} '''Bank of Hong Kong Limited''', '''BOHK''', is a smaller part of Bank of Hong Kong Holdings. It is the second-largest [[commercial bank|commercial banking group]] in [[Hong Kong]] in terms of [[asset|how much money and property it has]] and [[bank deposit|how much money its customers have in the bank]]. It had around 197 branches in Hong Kong as of end 2016. It is also one of the three commercial banks licensed by the [[Hong Kong Monetary Authority]] to issue banknotes for the [[Hong Kong dollar]]. BOHK is also the biggest member and a founder of the [[JETCO]] [[automatic teller machine|ATM]] and payment system. It is the official [[Clearing (finance)|clearing]] bank in Hong Kong for exchanges of money or property involving the [[Renminbi]] (RMB / CNH). BOHK was established on October 1, 2001 from a merger of 12 smaller and associate banks in Hong Kong, including the Bank of Communications, China & South Sea Bank, China State Bank Limited, Hua Chiao Commercial Bank, Kincheng Banking Corporation, Kwangtung Provincial Ban, National Commercial Bank Limited, National Industrial Bank of China, Sin Hua Bank Limited, Wo Sang Bank, Yien Yieh Commercial Bank, and Young Brothers Banking Corpo