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Bankers Trust New York Corp
Bankers Trust New York Corporation 280 Park AvenueNew York, New York 10017U.S.A.(212) 250-2500 Public Company Incorporated: 1903 as Bankers Trust CompanyEmployees: 12,751Assets: $57.94 billionStock Index: New York London Bankers Trust New York Corporation, a multibillion-dollar bank holding... Read more |
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Consortia
C ONSORTIA Warren I. Cohen As generally found in world affairs, consortia are multinational cooperative ventures designed to cope with some common problem, ostensibly apolitical. The best-known consortia, the socalled China consortiums, were banking... Read more |
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BayBanks Inc
BayBanks, Inc. 175 Federal StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02110U.S.A.(617) 482-1040 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1928 as Old Colony TrustTotal Assets: $10.2 billionEmployees: 5,571Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 6712 Bank Holding Companies; 6022 StateCommercial Banks;6211 Security Brokers &... Read more |
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Beneficial Corp
Beneficial Corporation P.O. Box 911Wilmington, Delaware 19899U.S.A.(302) 798-0800Fax: (302) 781-3044 Public Company Incorporated: 1929 as Beneficial Finance CorporationEmployees: 8,500Sales: $1.81 billionStock Exchanges: Boston Midwest New York Philadelphia PacificSICs: 6141 Personal Credit... Read more |
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Anthony Joseph Drexel
Anthony Joseph Drexel , 1826-93, American banker and philanthropist, b. Philadelphia. He entered (1838) at an early age the well-known banking firm of Drexel and Company, founded by his father, Francis Martin Drexel, an Austrian immigrant. Anthony became a partner, and later under his dominant... Read more |
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discount
discount in banking and investment, fee for lending money, which the banker deducts from the loan when it is given. Thus, with a $1,000 loan at a 6% discount, the borrower receives $940 and repays $1,000. Unlike a discount, interest is paid periodically. Central banks, as in the U.S. Federal... Read more |
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Bank for International Settlement
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), based in Basel, Switzerland, is the oldest international financial institution in the world and the principal center for international central bank cooperation. Known as the... Read more |
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Economic Crises
ECONOMIC CRISES ECONOMIC CRISES. Historians have identified many types of economic crises in the early modern or preindustrial period: financial, general long-term crises, regional, the permanent crises of lower-class poverty, and short-term crises of famine or of famine combined with temporary... Read more |
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob (b. Potsdam, Germany, 10 December 1804; d. Berlin, Germany, 18 February 1851) mathematics. The second son of Simon Jacobi, a Jewish banker, the precocious boy (originally called Jacques Simon) grew up in a wealthy and cultured family. His brother Moritz, three years... Read more |
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Jacob Henry Schiff
Jacob Henry Schiff 1847-1920, American banker and philanthropist, b. Frankfurt, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1865 and became a partner in a brokerage house in New York City. At the age of 38 he was head of the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb and Company. Schiff became associated with... Read more |
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Doha Bank adjudged as Best Commercial Bank in the Middle East by Banker...
...Summary: Doha Bank, one of...largest private commercial bank in the...awarded the "Best Commercial Bank in the Middle East 2009" by the prestigious Banker ... |
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BRIEFING - ASIA BANKING - JUNE 29, 2011.
...exclusive news, commercial intelligence...QNB NAMED BEST BANK AT BANKER MIDDLE EAST INDUSTRY AWARDS DOHA - Qatar National...Bank in the Middle East and ... |
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