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Česká spořitelna (literally "Czech Savings Bank") is a Czech bank, headquartered in Prague.Despite being organized as a joint-stock bank, it is the heir to a long history of savings banks in the Czech Republic, going back to the establishment of Böhmische Sparkasse in 1825.
[5] Prior to acquiring its bankrupt competitor Investiční a poštovní banka in 1999, ČSOB was the fourth-largest bank in the Czech Republic. The acquisition of Investiční a poštovní banka, at the time the third-largest Czech bank, brought an additional 3.3 million customers and a network of 179 branches. [6]
Salomon started his banking career in 1997 at GE Capital Multiservis, where he held the roles of chairman of the board of directors and CEO. [3] By 2000, he took on the position of Director of Retail Banking and became a member of the board of directors at GE Capital Bank, overseeing sales and marketing. [4]
These included GEORGE 1, GEORGE 2, GEORGE 3, and GEORGE 4. Initially, the 1900 series machines, like the Ferranti-Packard 6000 on which they were based, ran a simple operating system known as Executive , which allowed the system operator to load and run programs from a Teletype Model 33 ASR based system console .
Montagu Norman (1871-1950) was instrumental in the formation of Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank in 1922. The Anglo-Austrian Bank opened a branch in Prague in 1880. [2] Following the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy in late 1918, more than 50% of the bank's assets were in what became Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and 45 percent of its capital was held by Czechoslovak shareholders. [3]
Slovenská sporiteľňa is the largest commercial bank in Slovakia.It provides comprehensive banking services to more than 2 million clients via the largest distribution network with 400 retail outlets.
GEORGE was an early computer built in 1957 [1] by Argonne National Laboratory, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann. (The name "GEORGE" is apparently not an acronym. It may have been derived from the sentence, "Let George do it," which was said when a person didn't want to do something himself). [2]
The all-stock deal valued St.George at A$18.6 billion (US$17.5 billion), or A$33.10 a share, a premium of 28.5% to the closing price of St.George shares on 9 May in Australia. St.George shareholders received 1.31 Westpac shares for each St.George share and owned 28.1% of the new entity.