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  2. History of credit unions - Wikipedia

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    Credit unions are not-for-profit financial cooperatives. In the early stages of development of a nation's financial system, unserved and underserved populations had to rely on risky and expensive informal financial services from sources like money lenders, ROSCAs and saving at home. Credit unions proved they could meet demand for financial ...

  3. Union Bank of Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    Union Bank of Switzerland ( UBS) [a] was a Swiss investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland. The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998 to become UBS. This merger formed what was then the largest bank in Europe and the second largest bank in the ...

  4. MUFG Union Bank - Wikipedia

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    A branch in Los Angeles, California. Union Bank was an American national bank with 398 branches in California, Washington and Oregon. It was owned by MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation and was acquired by U.S. Bancorp in December 2022. It was headquartered in New York City and had commercial branches in Dallas, Houston, New York and Chicago, in ...

  5. Online banking - Wikipedia

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    Online banking, also known as internet banking, virtual banking, web banking or home banking, is a system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website or mobile app. Since the early 2000s this has become the most common way that customers ...

  6. Credit union - Wikipedia

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    A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution. They may offer financial services equivalent to those of commercial banks, such as share accounts ( savings accounts ), share draft accounts ( cheque accounts ), credit cards, credit, share term certificates ( certificates of deposit ), and online banking.

  7. European Central Bank - Wikipedia

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    Early years (1998–2007) Wim Duisenberg, first President of the ECB. The European Central Bank is the de facto successor of the European Monetary Institute (EMI). The EMI was established at the start of the second stage of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) to handle the transitional issues of states adopting the euro and prepare for the creation of the ECB and European System of ...

  8. Union Bank of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Union Bank is a large commercial bank, serving individuals, small and medium-sized companies, as well as large corporations and organizations. In July 2009, it was rated the 556th largest bank in the world and the 14th largest bank in Africa. [2] As of Mar 31, 2018, the bank's asset base was estimated at NGN1, 381 billion (US$4.1billion).

  9. Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union - Wikipedia

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    Other EU members. The economic and monetary union (EMU) of the European Union is a group of policies aimed at converging the economies of member states of the European Union at three stages. There are three stages of the EMU, each of which consists of progressively closer economic integration. Only once a state participates in the third stage ...