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Bank of Ireland Group plc (Irish: Banc na hÉireann) is a commercial bank operation in Ireland and one of the traditional Big Four Irish banks. Historically the premier banking organisation in Ireland, the bank occupies a unique position in Irish banking history.
The weakness of the paper currency in Ireland lead to pressure for the creation of a ‘National Bank’ to provide a stable currency. Eventually, the Bank of Ireland was created to fill this need. The Bank of Ireland was the first joint stock bank to produce notes intended for use throughout Ireland; its first issue was in 1783. [2]
Northern Irish banknotes are fully backed such that holders have the same level of protection as those holding genuine Bank of England notes. [2] The £20 note is currently the third largest of five denominations of banknote issued by the Bank of Ireland. [3] The £20 note of the Queen's University Belfast Series was first issued in 2007.
An Act to enable the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury of Ireland for the Time being, to sell, lease, convey, or dispose of the Parliament House in the City of Dublin, and all the Premises and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland. Citation: 42 Geo. 3. c. 87: Dates
The world's oldest bank is Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, while the world's oldest merchant bank is Berenberg Bank. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena was founded in its present form in 1624, but traces its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472. The Berenberg company was founded in 1590 and has operated continuously ever since with the ...
Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Danske Bank; First Active; ICS Building Society (previously Irish Civil Service Building Society) – investment shares acquired in 1984 by Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland as well as society savers but ran separately for a period until a legislative change after the 1987 General Election.
The Central Bank of Ireland (Irish: Banc Ceannais na hÉireann) is the Irish member of the Eurosystem and had been the monetary authority for Ireland from 1943 to 1998, issuing the Irish pound. It is also the country's main financial regulatory authority , and since 2014 has been Ireland's national competent authority within European Banking ...
It was the largest bank robbery in Ireland's history. Criminals engaged in the tiger kidnapping of a junior bank employee, 24-year-old Shane Travers, and forced him to remove €7.6 million (US$9 million) [1] in cash from the bank as his girlfriend and two others were held hostage. [2]