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  2. National Automated Clearing House - Wikipedia

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    National Automated Clearing House, introduced by National Payments Corporation of India, is a centralised clearing service that aims at providing interbank high volume, low value transactions that are repetitive and periodic in nature. Offering credit and debit service to corporates, banks, and financial institutions, the service, aimed at ...

  3. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    The history of banking began with the first prototype banks, that is, the merchants of the world, who gave grain loans to farmers and traders who carried goods between cities. This was around 2000 BCE in Assyria, India and Sumer. Later, in ancient Greece and during the Roman Empire, lenders based in temples gave loans, while accepting deposits ...

  4. Clearing (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In trading, clearing is necessary because the speed of trades is much faster than the cycle time for completing the underlying transaction. It involves the management of post-trading, pre-settlement credit exposures to ensure that trades are settled in accordance with market rules, even if a buyer or seller should become insolvent prior to settlement.

  5. Clearing Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The Clearing Corporation (TCC, former CCorp) is "a Delaware corporation owned by 17 stockholders (which include banks Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, as well as inter-dealer brokers ICAP and GFI Group and German derivatives exchange Eurex), many of whom represent the world-wide derivatives marketplace participants and market makers."

  6. Cheque clearing - Wikipedia

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    Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.

  7. St. Clair's defeat - Wikipedia

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    40 wounded. 656 killed or captured. 279 wounded. St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, [3] was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy of Native Americans, as part of the ...

  8. The World Bank Group's Uncounted

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    The World Bank Group is the globe’s most prestigious development lender, bankrolling hundreds of government projects each year in pursuit of its high-minded mission: to combat the scourge of poverty by backing new transit systems, power plants, dams and other projects it believes will help boost the fortunes of poor people.

  9. 1992 Indian stock market scam - Wikipedia

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    The 1992 Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Mr Harshad Mehta and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange. That scam caused significant disruption to the stock market of India, defrauding investors of over ten million USD. Techniques used by Mehta involved having corrupt officials signing fake cheques, misusing ...