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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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•  Shambhala

  In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala is a mythical kingdom hidden somewhere in Inner Asia. It is mentioned in various ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra and the ancient texts of the Zhang Zhung culture which predated Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet. The Bön scriptures speak of a closely related land called Olmolungring.

  

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•  Vinica, Veľký Krtíš District

  Vinica is a village and municipality in the Veľký Krtíš District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.

  

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•  Turdho

  Turdho is a town that is located in Lower Jubba region of Somalia.

  

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