This term is probably used more frequently to someone acting as banker in a game of cards or some other game, than to a person engaged in banking activities as a profession. In What’s Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies, a speaker philosophizes...

A bank accepting deposits from another bank located in another area to provide local services for it. Many banks internationally have this arrangement to be able to make payments in different currencies. In the USA, the UNIT BANKING system necessitated...

A banker or bank is a financial institution that acts as a payment agent for customers, and borrows and lends money. In some countries such as Germany and Japan banks are the primary owners of industrial corporations while in other countries such as...

[Part 1 of 4] ABN Amro Bank Canada Box 114, TD Centre Amex Bank of Canada 101 McNabb St. Banca Commerciale Italiana of Cda. Box 100, 130 Adelaide St. W., #1800 Banco Central Hispano-Canada 141 Adelaide St. W., 3rd Fl. Bank of America Canada...

Last month Premier Community Bankshares, Inc., parent company of Marathon Bank in Winchester, filed a registration statement with the securities and Exchange Commission for a best efforts public offering of 250,000 shares of common stock, to be underwritten by Norfolk, Va.-based McKinnon & Company,...

Before a judge, Valley Hospital's HR administrator said she fired a former union steward for telling lies about patients missing medications and sitting in their own excrement. Joan Wells , the fired nurse , said she was scared to tell hospital officials exactly when and...

In a surprise move, the maverick founder of Commerce Bancorp, a New Jersey bank that has grown into a powerhouse on the East Coast, announced his retirement Friday.His company also said it has entered into an agreement with the Comptroller of the Currency to stop...

Services offered by savings and loan banks, credit unions, and mutual savings banks are beginning to merge. A history of these types of financial institutions are also examined.