** Atlas Bank, bank in Pakistan

** TIPH-2, from 1997 ( West Bank ) – 12 out of 37 soldiers from 6 countries

** Bank Holiday, if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3 ( Scotland )

** Da Afghanistan Bank

** Afghanistan International Bank ( AIB )

** Kabul Bank

** Azizi Bank

** Pashtany Bank

** President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Ri Kwang-gon ( since April 2009 )

** The most important state owned companies are: Republica AFAP ( Pension Fund ), AFE ( Railways ), ANCAP ( Energy ), ANCO ( Mail ), Administracion Nacional de Puertos ( Ports ), ANTEL ( Telecommunications: Telephony, Mobiles ( ANCEL and Data ANTELDATA )), BHU ( Mortgage Bank ), BROU ( Bank ), BSE ( Insurance ), OSE ( Water & Sewage ), UTE ( Electricity ).

** Anti-globalization protests in Prague ( some 15, 000 protesters ) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.

** African Development Bank ( AfDB ) founded.

** Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

** Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U. S. history ($ 17. 3 million, mostly in small bills ) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo.

** The Jodrell Bank Radio telescope opens in Cheshire, UK.

** Twenty-eight nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank.

** The Bank of England is nationalized.

** In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank ( now part of the LaSalle Bank ) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.

** An Israeli gunman kills 7 Palestinians, leading to bloody riots in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.

** European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) founded.

** Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1, 400.

** Eugene R. Black, Sr., American banker, former president of the World Bank ( b. 1898 )

** ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the most widely used of the three, and used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains ( with a few exceptions ).

** ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.

** ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script ( writing system ) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-Latin scripts.

** 7bit – up to 998 octets per line of the code range 1 .. 127 with CR and LF ( codes 13 and 10 respectively ) only allowed to appear as part of a CRLF line ending.

** 8bit – up to 998 octets per line with CR and LF ( codes 13 and 10 respectively ) only allowed to appear as part of a CRLF line ending.

** add, subtract, multiply, or divide the values of two registers, placing the result in a register, possibly setting one or more condition codes in a status register

** SDLC included much more powerful error detection and correction codes than earlier protocols.

** It enabled terminals and 3705 communications processors to send " frames " of data one after the other without waiting for an acknowledgement of the previous frame-the communications cards had sufficient memory and processing capacity to " remember " the last 7 frames sent or received, request re-transmission of only those frames which contained errors that the error detection and correction codes could not repair, and slot the re-transmitted frames into the right place in the sequence before forwarding them to the next stage.

** Country calling codes

** ZIP codes

** ISBN codes for books

** ISSN codes for periodicals

** Telephone numbers, addresses and international postal codes

** DRG codes for FY2005, also referred to as version 23

** DRG codes for FY2010, also referred to as version 27

** Reserved code elements under ISO 3166-1 " Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes ", available on request from ISO 3166 / MA

** Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations — list of alpha-3 and numeric codes ( a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list )

** Appendix D – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes — comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes

** Country codes — comparison of ISO 3166-1 country codes with other country codes