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H. C. Coombs is the only governor to have headed both the Commonwealth Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia. The longest-serving governor, if his periods of service to both the Commonwealth Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia are included, is H. C. Coombs, who served nineteen years and six months combined. [9]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), or simply Ritchie Bros., [1] is a publicly traded company legally domiciled in Canada with headquarters in Westchester, Illinois. Its common shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange .
There are 334 islands (or islets) within the state of Tasmania; [6] with the main islands listed below, each having a land area greater than 100 hectares (250 acres). A full list of all 334 islands is located at the list of islands of Tasmania.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority. It has had this role since 14 January 1960, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank. [3]
This is a list of Canadian islands as ordered by area. It includes all 50 islands with an area greater than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). The total area of these islands is 1,545,444 km 2 .
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia was established by legislation in 1911. The main functions of the bank were to undertake general banking and savings bank activities. In 1945 the bank's powers were formally widened to include exchange control and the administration of monetary and banking policy with the Commonwealth Bank Act and the Banking Act.
There was strong business and political agitation in Upper Canada for annexing the territory; in London the company's trading license was due for review; in St. Paul there was a growing interest in the area as a field for U.S. expansion. The great commercial depression of 1857 dampened most of the outside interests in the territory, which ...
Michele Bullock (born 1962/1963) is an Australian economist who is currently governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). She commenced as governor on 18 September 2023, and is the first woman to hold the role.