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History. 1919 – Credito Italiano established Banca Unione di Credito in Switzerland. 1947 – The Fiat Group acquired the entire share capital to make BUC its house bank. 1984 – BUC established a subsidiary in Zürich. 1990 – BUC established a representative office in Argentina. 1991 – BUC established a subsidiary in Geneva.
At the end of 2001, Canada's credit union sector consisted of 681 credit unions and 914 caisses populaires, with more than 3,600 locations and 4,100 automated teller machines. By the end of 2019, consolidation reduced this number to 251 credits unions and caisses populaires outside Quebec, according to the Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA).
v. t. e. An offshore bank is a bank that is operated and regulated under international banking license (often called offshore license), which usually prohibits the bank from establishing any business activities in the jurisdiction of establishment. Due to less regulation and transparency, accounts with offshore banks were often used to hide ...
CIBC Caribbean's head office, Warrens, St. Michael. CIBC Caribbean is a financial services company based in Barbados and the Caribbean subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The bank was founded in 2002 as FirstCaribbean International Bank through the merger of the Caribbean operations of Barclays Bank and CIBC, and in ...
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. [1] The bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade after opening, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries and assets in excess of US$ 20 billion, making it the ...
The Bank of Nova Scotia (French: Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse ), operating as Scotiabank (French: Banque Scotia ), is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. One of Canada's Big Five banks, it is the third-largest Canadian bank by deposits and market capitalization.
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) is the primary financial services regulator of the Cayman Islands and supervises its currency board.. The CIMA manages the Cayman Islands currency, regulates and supervises financial services, provides assistance to overseas regulatory authorities and advises the Cayman Islands government on financial-services regulatory matters.
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.