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  2. Standard Bank - Wikipedia

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    54,767 (2016) Website. www .standardbank .com. Standard Bank Group Limited [2] is a major South African bank and financial services group. It is Africa 's biggest lender by assets. [3] The company's corporate headquarters, Standard Bank Centre, is situated in Simmonds Street, Johannesburg.

  3. Standard Chartered - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 90% of its profits come from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East .

  4. Financial institution - Wikipedia

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    A financial institution, sometimes called a banking institution, is a business entity that provides service as an intermediary for different types of financial monetary transactions. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial institution: [1] [2] Investment institution – investment bank, underwriter, and other different types ...

  5. Banking in India - Wikipedia

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    The Reserve Bank of India, India's central banking authority, was established in April 1935, but was nationalized on 1 January 1949 under the terms of the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948 (RBI, 2005b). [31] In 1949, the Banking Regulation Act was enacted, which empowered the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to regulate ...

  6. Online banking - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. 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 ...

  7. Neobank - Wikipedia

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    The term neobank has been in use since at least 2016 to describe fintech-based financial providers that were challenging traditional banks.There were two main types of company that provided services digitally: companies that applied for their own banking license and companies in a relationship with a traditional bank to provide those financial services.

  8. 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 BC in Assyria, India and Sumer. Later, in ancient Greece and during the Roman Empire, lenders based in temples gave loans, while accepting deposits ...

  9. Digital banking - Wikipedia

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    Description. A digital bank represents a virtual process that includes online banking, mobile banking, and beyond. As an end-to-end platform, digital banking must encompass the front end that consumers see, the back end that bankers see through their servers and admin control panels, and the middleware that connects these nodes.