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•  World Bank

  World Bank is a term used to describe an international financial institution that provides leveraged loans to developing countries for capital programs. The World Bank has a stated goal of reducing poverty.

  

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•  Automated teller machine

  An automated teller machine (ATM) or automatic banking machine (ABM) is a computerised telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public space without the need for a cashier, human clerk or bank teller.

  

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•  Commercial bank

  A commercial bank is a type of financial intermediary and a type of bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking. It is a bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts and that accepts time deposits. After the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress required that banks engage only in banking activities, whereas investment banks were limited to capital market activities. As the two no longer have to be under separate ownership under U.S.

  

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•  Private bank

  Private banks are banks that are not incorporated. A private bank is owned by either an individual or a general partner(s) with limited partner(s). In any such case, the creditors can look to both the "entirety of the bank's assets" as well as the entirety of the sole-proprietor's/general-partners' assets. These banks have a long tradition in Switzerland, dating back to at least the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

  

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•  Merchant bank

  In banking, a merchant bank is a financial institution primarily engaged in offering financial services and advice to corporations and to wealthy individuals. The term can also be used to describe the private equity activities of banking. The chief distinction between an investment bank and a merchant bank is that a merchant bank invests its own capital in a client company whereas an investment bank purely distributes (and trades) the securities of that company in its capital raising role.

  

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•  Offshore bank

  An offshore bank is a bank located outside the country of residence of the depositor, typically in a low tax jurisdiction that provides financial and legal advantages.

  

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•  National bank

  The term national bank has several meanings: especially in developing countries, a bank owned by the state an ordinary private bank which operates nationally (as opposed to regionally or locally or even internationally) in the United States, an ordinary private bank operating within a specific regulatory structure, which may or may not operate nationally. In the past, the term "national bank" has been used synonymously with "central bank", but it is no longer used in this sense today.

  

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•  Bank vault

  A bank vault (or strongroom) is a secure space where money, valuables, records, and documents can be stored. It is intended to protect their contents from theft, unauthorized use, fire, natural disasters, and other threats, just like a safe. But unlike safes, vaults are an integral part of the building within which they are built, using armored walls and a tightly fashioned door closed with a complex lock.

  

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•  Savings bank

  A savings bank is a financial institution whose primary purpose is accepting savings deposits. It may also perform some other functions. In Europe, savings banks originated in the 19th or sometimes even the 18th century. Their original objective was to provide easily accessible savings products to all strata of the population.

  

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•  Postal savings system

  Many nations' post offices operated, or continue to operate postal savings systems, to provide depositors who did not have access to banks a safe, convenient method to save money and to promote saving among the poor.

  

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•  1751

  Year 1751 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

  

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•  G-Unit

  G-Unit is an American hip hop group originating from New York City. G-Unit emerged on the New York scene by independently releasing several mixtapes. The name of the group is short for Guerilla Unit as well as Gangsta Unit.

  

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•  Xi Serpentis

  Xi Serpentis (ξ Ser / ξ Serpentis) is a triple star system in the constellation Serpens. In the past, it was called by the traditional name Nehushtan, which refers to the bronze serpent of Moses. When King Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent, opponents of Hezekiah protested by memorializing the serpent among the summer stars, with Ophiuchus representing Hezekiah, and Serpens representing Nehushtan.

  

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•  Mohammad Al-Shalhoub

  Mohammad Bander Al-Shalhoub is a Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a Left-winger for Al Hilal. He has been a member of the Saudi Arabian national team since 2000 when he was just nineteen years of age, and was recently called up to the squad to participate in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

  

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