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  2. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...

  3. Centurion Card - Wikipedia

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    The front of an American Express Centurion card. The American Express Centurion Card, colloquially known as the Black Card, is a charge card issued by American Express. [1] [2] It is reserved for the company's wealthiest clients who meet certain net worth, credit quality, and spending requirements on its gateway card, the Platinum Card. [3] [4] The firm does not disclose the exact requirements ...

  4. American Express - Wikipedia

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    Share of the American Express Company, 1865. In 1850, American Express was started as a freight forwarding company in Buffalo, New York. [14] It was founded as a joint-stock corporation by the merger of the cash-in-transit companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor ...

  5. Bank of England £1,000,000 note - Wikipedia

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    Nine £1 million notes were issued in connection with the Marshall Plan on 30 August 1948, signed by E. E. Bridges, and were used internally as "records of movement" for a six-week period, along with other denominations, with total face value of £300 million, corresponding to a loan from the U.S. to help shore up HM Treasury. These were ...

  6. 1,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    There are 454 grams in a pound. One million dollar bills would weigh 1 megagram (1,000 kg; 2,200 lb) or 1 tonne (just over 1 short ton). Time: A million seconds, 1 megasecond, is 11.57 days. In Indian English and Pakistani English, it is also expressed as 10 lakh. Lakh is derived from lakṣa for 100,000 in Sanskrit. One million black dots ...

  7. Ameriprise Financial - Wikipedia

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    In September 2005, American Express completed the corporate spin-off of AEFA as Ameriprise Financial, Inc., a public company. In September 2006, the company launched Ameriprise Bank, FSB. In February 2008, Threadneedle acquired Invesco Perpetual's full service defined contribution pension business with total assets of £470 million. [6]

  8. South African Associated Newspapers - Wikipedia

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    Other major shareholders, include Anglo American 20.96%, Nedbank 7.54%, Bailey Trust 8.21% and Stephen Mulholland, 1.18%. [8] The group also included the Financial Mail. [8] SAAN closed the Rand Daily Mail and the Sunday Express in April 1985 as they were losing large amounts of money. [9]

  9. The Million Pound Bank Note - Wikipedia

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    Seeing money inside the envelope, Henry immediately heads for a cheap dining house and eats a meal; afterward, he discovers that the money is a single bank note for one million pounds sterling, the equivalent of $5 million in United States currency. Without knowing it at the time, Henry has become the subject of a £20,000 bet between the brothers.