Octave Homberg


Octave Marie Joseph Kérim Homberg, Jr. was a French diplomat, author, and financier. He was director of the Indo-China Bank.

Biography

He was born on 19 January 1876 in Paris, France to . During World War I he appealed to the United States for loans and participated in the 1915 Anglo-French Financial Commission. He headed the Commission of Bankers and Economists in France in 1917.
In 1920 he founded the Société financière française et coloniale, which he led until early 1931.
He died on 9 July 1941 in Cannes, France.