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The term national bank in the U.S. context originally referred to the Revolutionary War–era Bank of North America, its successor, the First Bank of the United States, or that institution's successor, the Second Bank of the United States. The first survives as an acquisition of Wells Fargo, while the others are defunct.
Bank of Botswana ; Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) Brazil: Central Bank of Brazil ; Securities Commission (CVM) ; Superintendency of Private Insurance (SUSEP); Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) British Virgin Islands: British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVIFSC) Brunei
A central bank, reserve bank, national bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the monetary policy of a country or monetary union. [1] In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base.
A time bank is a community-based organization which brings people and local organizations together to help each other, utilizing previously untapped resources and skills, valuing work which is normally unrewarded, and valuing people who find themselves marginalized from the conventional economy. [3]
Paul McCulley of investment management firm PIMCO coined the term "shadow banking". [9] Shadow banking is sometimes said to include entities such as hedge funds, money market funds, structured investment vehicles (SIV), "credit investment funds, exchange-traded funds, credit hedge funds, private equity funds, securities broker-dealers, credit insurance providers, securitization and finance ...
Centrale bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten / Banko Sentral di Kòrsou i Sint Maarten: 1828 Cyprus: Euro: European Central Bank (Central Bank of Cyprus) Κεντρική Τράπεζα της Κύπρου / Kıbrıs Merkez Bankası: 1963 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus* Turkish lira: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...
Non-financial risks (NFR) are all of the risks which are not covered by traditional financial risk management. [1] This negative definition resembles the initial definition of operational risk , and it depends on the bank or corporation whether or not they use the term operational risk synchronously with NFR.