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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 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.
Les Français parlent aux Français was a daily radio broadcast in French transmitted on the BBC (Radio Londres). It was broadcast from the 14 July 1940: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] under the title Ici la France [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] then, from 6 September 1940 [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] to 31 August 1944, [ 1 ] under its better known name.
The Office québécois de la langue française (Canadian French: [ɔˈfɪs kebeˈkwɑ də la lãɡ fʁãˈsaɪ̯z], OQLF; English: Quebec Office of the French Language) is an agency of the Quebec provincial government charged with ensuring legislative requirements with respect to the right to use French are respected.
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 ...
For purposes of regulation by the Federal Communications Commission under the U.S. Communications Act of 1934 and Telecommunications Act of 1996, the definition of telecommunications service is "the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public ...
LCL S.A. is a major French banking network that is part of the Crédit Agricole group, with registered office in Lyon and administrative head office in Paris, France. [2] It was established in 2005 from its predecessor the Crédit Lyonnais, and its name LCL refers to "Le Crédit Lyonnais".
The BNC soon undertook a series of acquisitions of its own including those of the Banque du Midi, Crédit du Centre, Crédit du Sud-Ouest, Banque de Nancy, and Banque de Metz. By 1922, it had expanded to 442 agencies. That same year, it acquired the Paris-based Banque Française pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (BFCI). [4]