On 7 November 1917 the State Bank was disestablished and was succeeded by the People's Bank of the RSFSR (until 1922) and State Bank of the USSR (until 1991).

In effect, Vneshtorgbank renationalized United Georgian Bank, but the new owner was the Russian state.

ICICI Bank is one of the Big Four banks of India, along with State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda.

Only one German bank, the notoriously mismanaged Hypo Real Estate, which had already required massive state help, failed.

The public finance of Ecuador consists of the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE), the National Development Bank (BNF), the State Bank, the National Finance Corporation, the Ecuadorian Housing Bank (BEV) and the Ecuadorian Educational Loans and Grants.

Point five, which was preceded by confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels, was centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State property and an exclusive monopoly.

When most other Swedish banks followed Nordbanken s example and established their own bad banks, they did so without state participation.

The National (now Central) Bank was created in 1992 based on the Azerbaijan State Savings Bank, an affiliate of the former State Savings Bank of the USSR.

Almaty is home to BTA Bank, which is the largest bank in Central Asia, Kazkommertsbank and other major banks.

To protect China s central bank from local political pressure, reformist Premier Zhu Rongji, on my and others advice in the 1990 s, reorganized the People s Bank of China along regional lines, similar to the Federal Reserve s district banks.

The following year, Vneshtorgbank purchased a controlling stake in the privatized United Georgian Bank, Georgia s third largest.

The African Development Bank s capital was increased by 200 , as was the Asian Development Bank s.

Where the Bank of Japan has now led, the Fed should follow.

In September 1974, the country's first commercial trading bank, the Bank of Tonga, opened.

This would reestablish monetary sovereignty and create a normal central bank (like the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England) at the European level.

With dollar financing by the Federal Reserve available to large institutions, the Fed became the equivalent of a world central bank.

In 1963, the Bank of Libya took over from the National Bank and issued notes in the same denominations.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced a major trade package during his trip to Pyongyang last November, perhaps on the order of 10 billion. North Korea recently established the State Development Bank and Taepung International Investment Group (headed by a Korean Chinese businessman), charged with attracting foreign investment.

A Radioactive Bank to be Welcomed

Fighting the Fed

Grameen vs. Bangladesh

The Bank of England s Knockout Artist

The original name the Bank of Canada (commercial) was a private bank and was renamed the Canadian Bank of Commerce.

As of 2014 it is the second largest bank in India in terms of assets and market capitalization.

The Fed Under Fire

The Fed s Communication Breakdown

The Fed s Dollar Distraction

The BIS Bashers

Layla planned to rob a bank.

Crony Central Banking in Hong Kong

A New World s New Development Bank

In fact, Pecora examined only one commercial bank, National City Bank, prior to the enactment of Glass Steagall.

More recently, the state assumed the liabilities of rogue property developers by setting up a bad bank which could potentially saddle Irish taxpayers with a mountain of debt for decades to come.

Will China s Infrastructure Bank Work?

The Chinese Economy and Fed Policy

The Fed in Denial

Audit the Fed?

Blaming the Fed

The Fed vs. the Financiers

In order to understand the conflict, it is useful to compare the Fed s independence with that of the Bank of England and the European Central Bank.

The initiative to set up a bad bank in Sweden was taken not by politicians, but by the management of Nordbanken.

His staff leaked the contents of a conversation he claimed to have had with Paul Tucker, a senior Bank of England official, suggesting that the BoE had told Barclays to report inaccurate interest rate numbers.

Disasters have happened. In recent years we lost the gene bank, the seed bank in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can guess why.

The rest of Nordbanken, now known as Nordea, proceeded to become the largest bank in Scandinavia.

The Bank of England has moved from QE to CE (credit easing), and the Bank of Japan has repeatedly increased the size of its QE operations.