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Bankidas Asiya
Bankidas Asiya (बांकीदास आसिया) was a Charan court poet and historian of Marwar who served Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur and wrote the Bankidas ri Khyat, a chronicle of Rajasthan's history.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), was an Indian Bengali novelist born in 1838 whose Anandamath contains Vande Mataram.
Banking Act of 1935
The Banking Act of 1935 is a US federal law that shifted Federal Reserve monetary policy power to the Board of Governors and created the FOMC.
Banking crisis
A banking crisis is a situation where actual or feared losses across a country's banking system trigger runs, failures, and emergency intervention threatening the whole financial system.
Banking in China
Banking in China is the bank-centric, largely government-controlled banking system of the People's Republic of China, where six state-owned banks hold about 44 percent of commercial bank assets.
Banking in Germany
Banking in Germany is organized as a three-pillar system of private commercial banks, public savings banks with their Landesbanken, and cooperative banks competing for the same customers.
Banking in India
Banking in India, also called the Indian banking sector, is the system of banks supervised by the Reserve Bank of India, mixing public, private, and foreign banks.
Banking in Italy
Banking in Italy covers a bank-dominated system of about 130 institutions in which 12 significant banks hold 88 percent of assets, supervised by the ECB and Banca d'Italia since 2014.
Banking in Japan
Banking in Japan is the structure and regulation of a bank-dominated system holding nearly seven times GDP in assets at end-2023, one of the world's largest.
Banking in Switzerland
Banking in Switzerland, also known as Swiss banking, is the sector of roughly 230 licensed banks whose CHF 3.2 trillion in assets equals about 430% of GDP.
Banking in the United Kingdom
Banking in the United Kingdom is a concentrated sector dominated by five large banking groups, building societies, and challenger banks, with ring-fencing separating retail from investment banking.
Banking in the United States
Banking in the United States operates under a dual system of federal and state charters, with 4,267 banks holding $26.46 trillion in assets as of 2026.
Banking Regulation Act, 1949
Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (originally Banking Companies Act) is India's primary banking law, Act 10 of 1949, empowering RBI to license, inspect, direct, and wind up banking companies, extended to cooperative banks in 1966 and 2020.
Banking union (European Union)
The European Union's banking union is a set of EU-level institutions and rules for supervising, resolving, and insuring banks, built after the euro-area debt crisis to break the bank–sovereign doom loop.
Bankinter
Bankinter is a Spanish bank headquartered in Madrid, the fifth-largest in Spain, focused on corporate and SME lending, operating in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Luxembourg since 1965.
Banknote
A banknote, or bank bill, is a printed bearer instrument used as money, issued by a central bank and backed by the issuer's promise to pay.
Banknotes of the Australian dollar
Banknotes of the Australian dollar are polymer notes issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia in five denominations, and Australia pioneered the world's first full polymer series.
Banknotes of the Bangladeshi taka
Banknotes of the Bangladeshi taka are the paper currency of Bangladesh, first issued in 1972, with Bangladesh Bank issuing the high denominations and the government the 1-taka notes.
Banknotes of the Canadian dollar
Banknotes of the Canadian dollar are the notes issued by the Bank of Canada, the country's sole note issuer since 1935, in $5 to $100 polymer denominations.
Banknotes of the Japanese yen
Banknotes of the Japanese yen, also known as Japanese banknotes, are Bank of Japan notes (日本銀行券) issued by the Bank of Japan; the 2024 F-series carries world-first 3D holograms.
Banknotes of the Philippine peso
Banknotes of the Philippine peso, also called Philippine banknotes, are the paper and polymer notes issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in denominations of 20 to 1,000 piso.
Banknotes of the pound sterling
Banknotes of the pound sterling, also called sterling banknotes, are notes issued by the Bank of England and six authorized banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Banknotes of the Swiss franc
Banknotes of the Swiss franc are the paper currency of Switzerland, issued exclusively by the Swiss National Bank; the current ninth series was issued 2016 to 2019.
Bankroll Fresh
Bankroll Fresh (Trentavious Zamon White, born 1987), also Yung Fresh, Atlanta trap rapper; mixtapes Street Motivation, Life of a Hot Boy; "Hot Boy"; killed March 4, 2016.
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy: court-supervised legal process resolving debts of individuals or businesses unable to pay, via liquidation or repayment plans; U.S. chapters 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15; distinct from insolvency and from UK corporate insolvency.
Bankruptcy in the United States
Bankruptcy in the United States is a federal process under the Bankruptcy Code in which individuals, businesses, and municipalities gain debt relief through Chapter 7 liquidation or Chapter 11 and 13 reorganization.
Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, filed September 15, 2008, was the largest in United States history, with about $639 billion in assets, and worsened the financial crisis of 2007–2009.
Bankruptcy of Tunisia
The bankruptcy of Tunisia was the sovereign default of the Regency of Tunis, which missed a debt payment in 1867 and passed under an international financial commission in 1869.
Banks (singer)
Banks (Jillian Rose Banks, born 1988, Orange County, California) is an American alternative R&B/electropop singer-songwriter, known for the gold 2014 debut Goddess, the platinum single "Beggin for Thread", five studio albums, and an independent career since 2021.
Banks Island (банкс)
Banks Island (банкс) is the fourth largest and westernmost Canadian Arctic Island, in the Northwest Territories, area about 70,000 km2. Home to Aulavik National Park, huge lesser snow goose colonies, over half the world's muskoxen, and the sole settlement Sachs Harbour.