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The Imperial Bank of Persia was the most important foreign financial institution in Qajar era of Iran, which was established in 1306 AH (1889) by granting concession by Naser al-Din Shah and was active in Iran for a total of 60 years (total time of concession), so that it can be named as one of the best examples of foreign direct investment during the colonial era in Iran. However the bank was facing serious conflict of interest issues, as it was the most important commercial bank in Iran, it had the exclusive right to print banknotes, the Iranian government was one of its most important customers, it had to answer to its non-Iranian shareholders, and the British authorities had certain political expectations from it. The main subject of this paper is to study the bank's policies facing these conflict of interests in order to better understand an important part of the financial history of the Qajar era, and  the attempts has been made to do the research in historical way and by using descriptive-analytical method and with reference to the available sources and references. This study seeks to answer the question of whether the bank was able to perform its various tasks efficiently. The paper concludes that the bank was neither significantly profitable for its shareholders, nor did perform its' functions as a state-owned bank properly, and nor did its' duties in realizing the British government's colonial goals

The Imperial Bank of Iran [Persia] was established with a concession from the government of Iran to Baron Julius de Reuter with the help of Mirza Malkom Khan and Amin’ol Soltan in 1989.The Imperial Bank benefited from the vacuum in the field of Iranian banking and used Iranian stagnant investments for its own benefits. In addition to the usual activities, the bank was acting as a tool to advance political and economic interests of British government. The establishment of the Imperial Bank of Iran must be attributed to both external and internal factors. The development of imperialistic policies of Britain on the one hand and the tendency of Iranian governors in obtaining European civilization to make countrywide reforms on the other hand were effective in the establishment of the Imperial Bank of Iran. In fact, these two complementary theories were effective in the establishment of the Bank. The research methodology adopted is descriptive-analytic. In this regard, the article is intended to examine each factor in terms of existing theories on the basis of library findings and discuss the reasons of its formation.