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  2. Bank run - Wikipedia

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    Bank run during the Great Depression in the United States, February 1933. A bank run is the sudden withdrawal of deposits of just one bank. A banking panic or bank panic is a financial crisis that occurs when many banks suffer runs at the same time, as a cascading failure.

  3. Exocrine gland - Wikipedia

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    Exocrine glands contain a glandular portion and a duct portion, the structures of which can be used to classify the gland. [1]The duct portion may be branched (called compound) or unbranched (called simple).

  4. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

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    [50] 1984 saw the largest commercial bank failure to date, that of Continental Illinois, which was infamously branded "too big to fail". [51] The bank failed amid a rise in foreign non-performing loans (mostly in Latin America) and an electronic bank run. The FDIC stepped in to prevent the failure of almost 2,300 smaller banks which had their ...

  5. History of central banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The real value of a bank bill was often lower than its face value, and the issuing bank's financial strength generally determined the size of the discount. By 1797 there were 24 chartered banks in the U.S.; with the beginning of the free banking era (1837) there were 712. Privately issued note, 1863

  6. History of banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States.The bank, which was jointly owned by the federal government and private stockholders, was a nationwide commercial bank which served as the bank for the federal government and operated as a regular commercial bank acting in competition with state banks.

  7. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    The oldest bank still in existence is Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, headquartered in Siena, Italy, which has been operating continuously since 1472. [3] Until the end of 2002, the oldest bank still in operation was the Banco di Napoli headquartered in Naples , Italy, which had been operating since 1463.

  8. Sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, from Latin sudor 'sweat', [6] [7] are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat.Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland, which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct.

  9. Free banking - Wikipedia

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    Following a bank crisis in 1857, there was a rise in popular support for private banks and private money issuers (especially Stockholms Enskilda Bank, founded in 1856). A new bank law was adopted by parliament in 1864, deregulating the interest rate. The following decades marked the height of the Swedish free banking era.