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MBNA Europe headquarters is in Chester, England, United Kingdom. MBNA Canada's headquarters is located in Ottawa, Ontario. In 2007, the Canadian division was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers. [11] On August 15, 2011, MBNA announced that the Toronto-Dominion Bank would be purchasing MBNA's Canadian MasterCard portfolio. The acquisition of ...
A credit card balance transfer is the transfer of the outstanding debt (the balance) in a credit card account to an account held at another credit card company. [1] This process is encouraged by most credit card issuers as a means to attract customers. The new bank/card issuer makes this arrangement attractive to consumers by offering incentives.
The Sri Lankan Tamils who emigrated to the UK often came on student visas (or family reunion visas for the family of said people) due to the well-educated in Sri Lanka being literate in English. This resulted in the first generation diaspora falling into highly professional jobs such as medicine and law after studying at British educational ...
The Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) is an association of microfinance networks in Africa resulting from an initiative led by African microfinance practitioners to create and strengthen country-level microfinance networks for the purpose of establishing shared performance standards, institutional capacity and policy change.
Austra-Lanka Muslims Association (ALMA) [38] Sinhala Association of NSW; Sinhalese Cultural Forum of NSW; Sri Lankan Australian Malay Association (SLAMA) The Sri Lanka Association of NSW; University of Colombo Alumni Association NSW Inc. Radio. SBS Radio 2 (Sydney 97.7 fm) [39] SBS Radio 2 (Wollongong 1035 am) [39]
The Little Sri Lanka in the Tompkinsville neighborhood is one of the largest Sri Lankan communities outside of the country of Sri Lanka. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] The island houses more Liberians than anywhere outside Liberia , [ 71 ] and has included three Liberian heads of state: David D. Kpormakpor , Ruth Perry , and George Weah .
Sinhalese people, depending on where they live in Sri Lanka, may also additionally speak English and or Tamil. According to the 2012 Census 23.8% or 3,033,659 Sinhalese people also spoke English and 6.4% or 812,738 Sinhalese people also spoke Tamil. [ 59 ]
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [41] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [42]