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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.

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.

Bankwest

Bankwest, also known as the Bank of Western Australia, is an Australian bank headquartered in Perth that the Commonwealth Bank bought from HBOS in 2008 for $2.1 billion.

Banliang coin

The banliang coin (半两钱) was the principal copper coin of Qin and early Han China, first issued around 378 BC and replaced by the wuzhu coin.

Banma Zhixing (斑马智行)

Banma Zhixing (斑马智行), formally Banma Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai-based provider of smart cockpit operating systems for cars, founded in 2015 by Alibaba and SAIC Motor.

Banner land system

Banner land (旗地) was land in Qing-dynasty China held by the Eight Banners, the Manchu ruling group's military-household organization, and cultivated under rules restricting its sale to non-Banner owners.

Banner Ridge (Banner Ridge Partners)

Banner Ridge Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded by Anthony Cusano and Christopher Driessen that invests in distressed, special situations, and credit strategies.

Bannock War

The Bannock War was an 1878 armed conflict between the Bannock people, joined by Shoshone and Paiute allies, and the United States Army across southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.

Banns of marriage

Banns of marriage: public church announcements of an intended marriage (from 'ban'), required on three Sundays; prescribed churchwide at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, still used by Anglican and Catholic churches, replaced by common licences in some cases.

Banorte

Banorte (Banco Mercantil del Norte) is one of Mexico's top three banking groups by assets, founded in Monterrey, publicly traded, and controlled by the Hank González family since 1992.

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) is the cantonal bank of the Swiss canton of Vaud, founded in 1845, majority-owned by the canton, and the second-largest Swiss cantonal bank.