Other terms include parallel banking, underground banking and ethnic banking.

The SWIFT wire system is used by the Central Bank of Syria and the Syrian Commercial Bank (Government owned establishments) and by private banks in accordance with recognized international norms.

Banking

The United Nations joined the Society for Worldwide Inter bank Financial Telecommunication to maintain secure, reliable and robust global communication links with banks to send payment instructions, execute payments and receive transaction data, such as account balances.

(AfDB, GEF and World Bank)

When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession a lot of us want to go into banking.

She should not go into banking, for example, or work at a cash register.

Banking

Women also make up all professional staff of the bank.

I never went to a posh school. I was just a clerk in a bank.

When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking.

These early signs of deglobalization of financial markets have their parallels in commercial banking, with some of the biggest global institutions retrenching rapidly. Citibank and HSBC had gone further than most in developing a global footprint indeed, one can hardly get on a plane nowadays without being reminded that the latter is the world s local bank.

The Fund has also entered into an agreement with the World Bank on GEF operations.

As the Central Bank of the country, the Bank of Zambia administered the Bank of Zambia and Foreign Exchange Acts and assisted the Government in regulating and supervising the operations of the Commercial Banks under the Banking Act.

(6) Commercial bank cheque.

G. Banking

Senior officials responsible for banking supervision or financial stability issues in central banks and authorities with formal responsibility for the prudential supervision of banking business where this is not the central bank.

Those meetings were attended by bank superintendents, central bank officials, representatives of the commercial banking system and academics from Latin America and other regions.

18 See Core principles for effective banking supervision , Basle Committee on Banking Supervision (available on the Web site of the Bank for International Settlements (www.bis.org press index.htm), release of 22 September 1997).

The bank is not open for business on Sundays.

Banking and credit

Lower banking costs.

C. Banking

Banks don't open on Sunday.

My bank will.

The Global Fund and the World Bank will

(b) To ratify the designation of the President of the Central Reserve Bank and of the Superintendent of Banking and Insurance

(WB, IDB, GEF, CAP)

For example, the United Kingdom s Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) has proposed ring fencing retail activities from investment banking activities in separately capitalized divisions of a bank holding company. This is a compromise aimed at minimizing the incentive to gamble with public insurance while allowing some economies of scale for banking activities.

They'll close up for a week and then reopen.

What other part of the corporate world has the ability to drive the global economy into recession, as banks did in the fall of 2008? And who else has an incentive to maximize the amount of debt that they issue?

Six weeks they had all people in the banking industry pretend a pandemic was underway.

The banks over lent to the housing market. The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another s bad loans.

World Bank, Global Development Finance, 2003.

Society for Worldwide Inter bank Financial Telecommunication

(IDB, GEF)

Finance s Crisis of Legitimacy

H. Banking and credit

E. Banking and insurance

Financial institutions such as the Zarai Taraquiati Bank of Pakistan (Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan), the First Women Bank Limited, other commercial banks and a number of public financial institutions extend credit to women.

Its banking sector was 10 times the GDP of the rest of the economy.

It circulated the Directive to all Jordanian agent banks in the Kingdom, to their branches abroad, to subsidiaries of Jordanian banks and to licensed banking companies.

At the end of 2004, there were 18 banks authorized to conduct banking business in Gibraltar.

In addition to the above, the Articles of Agreement establishing the IsDB require that, in contributing to the economic development and social progress of its member countries, the IsDB should operate within a framework of sound banking principles.

60 World Bank, Global Development Finance 2005.