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  2. Bank teller - Wikipedia

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    A teller in a branch of Bank Muamalat, Indonesia. A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank whose responsibilities include the handling of customer cash and negotiable instruments. In some places, this employee is known as a cashier or customer representative. [1] Tellers also deal with routine customer service ...

  3. History of banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831–1995 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Meltzer, Allan H. A History of the Federal Reserve (2 vol. U of Chicago Press, 2010). Murphy, Sharon Ann. Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic (2017) online review

  4. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression. During the Crash of 1929 preceding the Great Depression, margin requirements were only 10%. [200] Brokerage firms, in other words, would lend $9 for every $1 an investor had deposited. When the market fell, brokers called in these loans, which could not be ...

  5. Banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1791, U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton created the Bank of the United States, a national bank intended to maintain American taxes and pay off foreign debt. [2] However, President Andrew Jackson closed the bank in 1832 and redirected all bank assets into U.S. state banks. [2]

  6. Wells Fargo (1852–1998) - Wikipedia

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    Wells Fargo was an American banking company based in San Francisco, California, that was acquired by Norwest Corporation in 1998. During the California Gold Rush in early 1848 at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California, financiers and entrepreneurs from all over North America and the world flocked to California, drawn by the promise of huge profits.

  7. Bank of America - Wikipedia

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    The history of Bank of America dates back to October 17, 1904, when Amadeo Pietro Giannini (1870–1949) founded the Bank of Italy, in San Francisco. [14] In 1922, Bank of America, Los Angeles was established with Giannini as a minority investor.

  8. Theodore John Conrad - Wikipedia

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    Theodore John Conrad (July 10, 1949 – May 18, 2021) [1] [2] was an American bank teller who stole $215,000 (equivalent to $1.79 million in 2023) in cash from the vault of a Cleveland bank in July 1969. He was never apprehended or convicted, but he privately admitted to the crime on his deathbed.

  9. Bank - Wikipedia

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    An American bank in Maryland. Banks offer many different channels to access their banking and other services: Branch, in-person banking in a retail location; Automated teller machine banking adjacent to or remote from the bank; Bank by mail: Most banks accept cheque deposits via mail and use mail to communicate to their customers