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1971 The State Bank of Bangladesh was founded by nationalization of the private shares in the eastern section of the State Bank of Pakistan. [4]1972-1974 Through this three years period after independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the government had taken over 786 industrial undertakings.
Nationalization may produce other effects, such as reducing competition in the marketplace, which in turn reduces incentives to innovation and maintains high prices. In the short run, nationalization can provide a larger revenue stream for government but may cause that industry to falter depending on the motivations of the nationalizing party.
The National Bank Act (ch. 58, 12 Stat. 665; February 25, 1863), originally known as the National Currency Act, was passed in the Senate by a 23–21 vote, and was supplemented a year later by the National Banking Act of 1864. The goals of these acts was to create a single national currency, a nationalized bank chartering system, and to raise ...
Furthermore, there was a great resentment against class banking in India, which had left the poor (the majority population) unbanked. [2] After becoming Prime Minister, Gandhi expressed the intention of nationalising the banks in a paper titled, "Stray thoughts on Bank Nationalisation" in order to alleviate poverty. [3]
During the First World War (1914–1918) through the end of the Second World War (1939–1945), and two years thereafter until the independence of India were challenging for Indian banking. The years of the First World War were turbulent, and it took its toll with banks simply collapsing despite the Indian economy gaining indirect boost due to ...
The bank received a 50-year monopoly and was the Ethiopian government's fiscal agent as well as the sole issuer of currency. 1925 Lloyds Bank transferred to NBE the branches in Cairo and Alexandria that it acquired with its purchase of Cox & Kings in 1923 and from the Bank of British West Africa.
The Central Government entered the banking business with the nationalization of the ... 1969 amounted to 50 crores. ... for 90% of the banking sector. A year later ...
[13] [14] On 22 July 1969, an eight-judge bench of Supreme Court gave interim order restraining the government to remove banks chairmen and giving the direction to the banks under Banking Companies Act 1968, despite Attorney-General Niren De's argument that nationalization is a policy decision and not subject to court scrutiny. [9]