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  2. Category:Banking terms - Wikipedia

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    Serviceability (banking) Shaba Number; Sharia and securities trading; Shell bank; Single-tier banking system; Soft count; Soft probe; Sort code; Stale-dated check; STAR (interbank network) Stated income loan; Stock statement; Stop payment; Structural moving average model; Structuring; Substitute check; Substitute checks in the United States ...

  3. History of banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Second Bank of the United States opened in January 1817, six years after the First Bank of the United States lost its charter. The predominant reason that the Second Bank of the United States was chartered was that in the War of 1812, the U.S. experienced severe inflation and had difficulty in financing military operations. Subsequently ...

  4. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000. Ke – Is used as an abbreviation for Cost of Equity (COE). Ke is the risk-adjusted, theoretical rate of return on a Company's invested excess capital obtained through external investment s.

  5. Banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States. The central banking system of the United States, called the Federal Reserve system, was created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.

  6. Category:History of banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of banking in the United States" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also pre-literary history. The period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominin apes (c. 3.3 million years ago) and the invention of the earliest forms of writing (c. 5,000 years ago), the latter of which marks the beginning of conventional history. The distinction between prehistory and history – i.e. between those ...

  8. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    1816 – The Second Bank of the United States was chartered for 20 years. Difficulties financing the government during and after the War of 1812 overcame the resistance to central banking that lead to the expiration of the First Bank of the United States' charter five years earlier. 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange Board was established. [216]

  9. Glass–Steagall legislation - Wikipedia

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    Sen. Carter Glass (D–Va.) and Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D–Ala.-3), the co-sponsors of the Glass–Steagall Act. The sponsors of both the Banking Act of 1933 and the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932 were southern Democrats: Senator Carter Glass of Virginia (who by 1932 had served in the House and the Senate, and as the Secretary of the Treasury); and Representative Henry B. Steagall of Alabama ...