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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 (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.

Oct 22, 2026

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.

Banks of the Trinity

Banks of the Trinity is Cody Johnson's tenth studio album, a 16-track country record released June 26, 2026 on COJO Music/Warner Records Nashville, produced by Trent Willmon, featuring Luke Combs and Brothers Osborne and themed on his East Texas childhood.

Banks Peninsula

Banks Peninsula (Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū) is a 1,165 sq km volcanic peninsula near Christchurch, New Zealand, formed by the extinct Lyttelton and Akaroa shield volcanoes, named by Cook in 1770, and site of the 1840 French settlement at Akaroa.

Banksia

Banksia, genus of Australian Proteaceae shrubs and trees named for Joseph Banks in 1782; about 170 species, cone-like flower spikes, serotinous woody follicles, fire-adapted, many threatened by habitat loss and Phytophthora dieback.

Bankstown

Bankstown: former local government area in south-western Sydney, NSW, named for Sir Joseph Banks; 77 sq km, 203,202 residents (2015); merged with Canterbury on 12 May 2016 to form Canterbury-Bankstown.

Banksy

Banksy is the pseudonym of an anonymous British street artist, reportedly Robin Gunningham, born around 1972-1974 near Bristol, known for stenciled political murals, the self-shredding Love is in the Bin, Dismaland, and the Oscar-shortlisted film Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Banksy statue

Banksy statue, the Waterloo Place 'Blinded by the Flag' sculpture: unauthorized fibreglass statue of a suited man blinded by a flag, installed 29 April 2026 in London, confirmed by Banksy on Instagram, held by Westminster Council pending a permanence decision.

Sep 19, 2026

Banku music

Banku music is a genre term coined by Nigerian singer Mr Eazi for his signature sound, a fusion of Ghanaian highlife grooves and bounces with Nigerian chord progressions, plus R&B, hip-hop, and pop.