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The Second Bank of the United States opened in January 1817, six years after the First Bank of the United States lost its charter. The predominant reason that the Second Bank of the United States was chartered was that in the War of 1812, the U.S. experienced severe inflation and had difficulty in financing military operations. Subsequently ...
Loans to Insiders (Regulation O) establishes various quantitative and qualitative limits and reporting requirements on extensions of credit made by a bank to its "insiders" or the insiders of the bank's affiliates. The term "insiders" includes executive officers, directors, principal shareholders and the related interests of such parties.
In the United States, banking privacy and information security is not protected through a singular law nor is it an unalienable right. [5] The regulation of banking privacy is typically undertaken by a sector-by-sector basis. [5] The most prominent federal law governing banking privacy in the U.S. is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB). [5]
As a result, the First Bank of the United States (1791–1811) was chartered by Congress within the year and signed by George Washington soon after. The First Bank of the United States was modeled after the Bank of England and differed in many ways from today's central banks. For example, it was partly owned by foreigners, who shared in its ...
Although banking has been around in some form for thousands of years, modern banking has a much briefer and more recent history, marked by everything from people emptying their savings accounts in ...
Considers how crises, bailouts, mergers, and regulations have shaped the history of banking in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Hammond, Bray, Banks and Politics in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1957.
A top Federal Reserve official on Tuesday unveiled changes to a proposed set of U.S. banking regulations that roughly cuts in half the extra capital that the largest institutions will be forced to ...
United States federal banking legislation (2 C, 61 P) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Bank regulation in the United States"