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[[Standard National Bank]] (also known as '''SNB''') is a publicly-trade for-profit limited liability financial services company from [[the Oan Isles]] primarily engaged in commercial banking operations. SNB operates across [[Aurora]] and [[Novaris]] while its main office is located in the city of [[Tokapa]] in the Oan Isles. The bank started as the payment handling offices of the Tekeha Merchant Guild (TMG) in 1784, then evolved to the Tekeha Merchant Bank (TMB) in 1810. The TMB became the head of the larger Tekeha Banking Consortium (TBC) in 1825. The TBC was seized by the state and sold to the Hupirimu Family Trust in 18601868 and became rebranded as the Standard National Bank (SNB). In 1917, the Hupirimu family put the SNB up for sale and the company expanded, absorbing a string of companies along the way. Today, it is the largest financial services company in the Oan Isles.

The Hupirimu Commission found the Tekeha Clan and their companies to have profited from the war. Their wealth was seized by the state under the ''Foreign Enemy Collusion Decree.'' The government took ownership of Tekeha assets and dissolved the SPB. It sold off all the properties and companies. The Hupirimu Family Trust (under Great Chief Hupirimu) purchased the TBC and rebranded it as the Standard National Bank in 19011868. They moved its main offices from Anapa where it was originally located and started operations in 19041870. SNB started operations in Great Morstaybishlia, after Great Chief Hupirimu's successor Great Chief Umanga Hupirimu convinced Rangitake's successor [[Emperor Mikaere]] to repeal the ''Foreign Enemy Collusion Decree''. As part of democratic reforms, Emperor Mikaere established the ''Constitution of the Oan Isles'' in 1907 and ceded law making powers to the National Assembly and disestablished the feudal power of the [[Peerage of the Oan Isles|nobility of the Oan Isles]].

Great Chief Hupirimu and the Hupirimu Clan became incalculably wealthy as they used theytheir political clout to support the campaigns of favourable members of the Council of the People. The SNB in turn benefited from conditions that were favourable to banks that adhered to reforms started by Emperor Rangitake and continued by Emperor Mikaere to centralised money creation and bring the banking sector under the control of the [[Bank of the Oan Isles]]. The SNB continued as a commercial bank and expanded its operations to lands of the Crowns of [[Great Morstaybishlia]], [[Salovia]] and [[Kuthernburg]]. It grew incredibly wealthy from lending money and helping store and move the funds of the nations of the Imperial and Pacific Powers in the [[Great War]].

=== Post-Great War Era ===