Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The merged bank was renamed "Banque Canadienne Nationale" (BCN) (English, "Canadian National Bank"). In 1968, BCN, in conjunction with a number of other banks, launched Chargex, the first credit card to be issued by a Canadian bank. During the 1970s, Quebec-based rival Provincial Bank of Canada expanded rapidly through a number of acquisitions.
Like the other Canadian chartered banks, BCN issued its own paper currency until the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 created the Bank of Canada and it relinquished this right. In 1968, Banque Canadienne Nationale was one of the four original banks to form CHARGEX Ltd. through a licence from BankAmericard , providing Canada with its first interbank ...
The US Navy used the term BNC to mean "Baby Neill Constant". The term BNC appeared in 1948 in ads for Amphenol connectors [4] together with the MIL-spec name UG-88/U.. While Paul Neill and Carl Concelman did not invent the BNC, it is often suggested that BNC means Bayonet Neill–Concelman. [5]
It was previously named Banque Libanaise pour le Commerce, [4] renamed to BLC Bank in the end of 2004. In 1956, the bank established a foreign presence with the establishment of BLC Bank SA in France which itself opened four branches in the UAE in 1973. BLC Finance SAL was established in 1998.
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport [1] [5] (IATA: BCN, ICAO: LEBL) (Catalan: Aeroport Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, Spanish: Aeropuerto Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat), and also known as Barcelona-El Prat Airport, is an international airport located 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest [6] [7] of the centre of Barcelona, lying in the municipalities of El Prat de Llobregat ...
McDonald's France, colloquially called McDo, [2] is the French subsidiary of the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's.Its first location opened in 1972 by franchisee Raymond Dayan in Creteil, France, although the company itself still recognizes the first outlet as opening in Strasbourg in 1979. [3]
Carte Bleue (English: Blue Card) was a major debit card payment system operating in France.Unlike Visa Electron or Maestro debit cards, Carte Bleue transactions worked without requiring authorization from the cardholder's bank.
The plot revolves around Georges de Sarre, a 14-year-old boy who is sent to a Catholic boarding school in 1920s France. Getting to know the other boys, he is immediately interested in Lucien Rouvière, of whom he is warned by the unsympathetic Marc de Blajan, who cryptically informs him that some of the students "may seem good, but are in fact not".