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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, also known as Banca MPS, is an Italian bank founded in Siena in 1472, described as the world's oldest bank.
Banca Popolare di Sondrio
Banca Popolare di Sondrio is an Italian bank founded in Sondrio, Lombardy, in 1871 as one of the first popular cooperative banks, acquired by BPER Banca in 2025.
Banca Transilvania
Banca Transilvania is a Romanian commercial bank headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, founded in 1993 by Romanian entrepreneurs and listed in Bucharest; it holds the largest share of Romanian banking assets, 21.98% in 2025.
Bancha Ongkosit
Bancha Ongkosit (บัญชา องค์โฆษิต), born 1951, is a Thai businessman, a former advertising executive who founded KCE Electronics in 1982, a Bangkok maker of printed circuit boards for cars.
Banchan (반찬)
Banchan (반찬, 飯饌) are Korean side dishes served with rice and soup, graded in 3 to 12 cheop on a bansang table; types include kimchi, namul, jorim, jeon, bokkeum, and gui, with a traditional free-refill custom.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, also known as Grupo BBVA, is a Spanish multinational bank created by the 1988 merger of Banco de Bilbao and Banco de Vizcaya.
Banco BPM
Banco BPM is an Italian commercial bank headquartered in Milan, formed on 1 January 2017 from the merger of Banco Popolare and Banca Popolare di Milano, and one of Italy's largest banking groups.
Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve
Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve, a Mexican protected atoll reef 30 km off Quintana Roo in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; declared 1996, UNESCO MAB 2003, Ramsar 2004, managed by CONANP with lobster and conch cooperatives.
Banco Comercial Portugues
Banco Comercial Português, also known as Millennium bcp, is Portugal's largest private-sector bank, the only one listed in Lisbon, which rebranded all its operations by 2006.
Banco Davivienda
Banco Davivienda is a Colombian commercial bank, the country's second largest by assets, operating in Colombia, Central America, Panama, and Miami under Grupo Bolívar, with about 26 million customers.
Banco de Oro
Banco de Oro, also known as BDO Unibank, is a Philippine universal bank owned by the SM Group since 1976 and the country's largest bank by assets, loans, and deposits.
Banco de Portugal
Banco de Portugal is the central bank of Portugal, headquartered in Lisbon. Founded in 1846, it issues banknotes, supervises banks, and has been a Eurosystem member since 1998.
Banco de Rescate de Potosí
The Banco de Rescate de Potosí was a state-sanctioned bank at Potosí, Bolivia, that bought raw silver from miners and delivered it to the mint.
Banco di San Giorgio
Banco di San Giorgio was a Genoese public bank founded in 1407, considered the first bank of deposit and credit in Europe, operating until 1805.
Banco do Brasil
Banco do Brasil, also known as Bank of Brazil, is Brazil's oldest active bank, founded in 1808, majority controlled by the federal government and Brazil's largest agricultural lender.
Banco Garantia
Banco Garantia was a Brazilian investment bank in Rio de Janeiro, founded by Jorge Paulo Lemann in 1971, that dominated Brazilian markets until its 1998 sale to Credit Suisse.
Banco Macro
Banco Macro is an Argentine commercial bank built by the Brito and Carballo families from the mid-1980s into one of the country's largest private banks.
Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social
The Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) is Brazil's federal public development bank, the principal instrument of the government's investment policy for economic and social development.
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, founded in 1893, is Puerto Rico's largest bank, with about $59.8 billion in assets and branches in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Banco Sabadell
Banco de Sabadell is a Spanish bank founded in 1881 in Sabadell, Catalonia, now Spain's fourth-largest by assets with about €200 billion and a leading position in SME financing.
Banco Safra
Banco Safra is a Brazilian commercial and private bank headquartered in São Paulo, created in 1972 by brothers Joseph, Moise, and Edmond Safra and controlled by the Safra family.
Banco Santander
Banco Santander, also known as Grupo Santander, is a Spanish commercial bank founded in 1857, with a major presence in Spain, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States.
Bancolombia
Bancolombia is a Colombian commercial bank, the largest in the country with 22.32% of banking-sector assets in December 2024, formed on April 3, 1998, when Banco Industrial Colombiano merged with Bank of Colombia.
Bancroft (TV series)
Bancroft is an ITV British crime thriller (2017–2020) created by Kate Brooke, starring Sarah Parish as DCI Elizabeth Bancroft, a ruthless detective hiding her role in a 27-year-old murder; two four-part series filmed around Bolton and Manchester.
Bancroft Davis
Bancroft Davis (John Chandler Bancroft Davis, 1822–1907) was an American diplomat, Court of Claims judge, and ninth Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions (1883–1902), editing United States Reports volumes 108–186 and serving in the Alabama claims arbitration.
Bancroft Gherardi Jr.
Bancroft Gherardi Jr. was an American electrical engineer, vice-president and chief engineer of AT&T from 1920 to 1938, who helped open transcontinental telephone service in 1915.
Bancroft Roman villa
Bancroft Roman villa, formerly Bradwell Villa, is an excavated winged-corridor Roman villa in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, built about AD 100, burned about AD 180, rebuilt about AD 275, with mosaics, two bath suites, a walled garden, fishpond and nearby temple mausoleum.
Band 53/n53
Band 53/n53 is a 3GPP TDD spectrum band in the 2.4 GHz range (2483.5–2495 MHz) owned by Globalstar and used for terrestrial LTE and 5G private networks.
Band Aid (band)
Band Aid is the British charity supergroup formed by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in November 1984 to record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for Ethiopian famine relief, spawning Live Aid, four chart-topping re-recordings, and the Band Aid Charitable Trust.
Band Aid 30
Band Aid 30: 2014 Bob Geldof-organized re-recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for West African Ebola relief; 312,000 first-week UK sales, number 1 in 69 countries, over £1.9m in early grants, and wide criticism of its lyrics.