The Philippine peso was established on May 1, 1852, when the Banco Español-Filipino de Isabel II ( now the Bank of the Philippine Islands ) introduced notes denominated in pesos fuertes (" strong pesos ", written as " PF ").

She attended a private Roman Catholic school ; Her father, Carlos Preysler y Pérez de Tagle, was the executive director of Philippine Airlines and on the Board of Directors for El Banco Español de Manila ( Spanish Bank of Manila ), while her mother, María Beatriz Arrastia y Reynares, was the owner of a real estate company in Manila.

Under the act, all powers in the printing and mintage of Philippine currency was vested in the CBP, taking away the rights of the banks such as Bank of the Philippine Islands and the Philippine National Bank to issue currency.

It is also used by the Philippine National Bank.

Thailand triggered the crisis on 2 July and on 3 July, the Philippine Central Bank intervened to defend the peso, raising the overnight rate from 15 % to 32 % at the onset of the Asian crisis in mid-July 1997.

He originated a bank, the Banco de San Carlos-which is the precursor of today's Bank of Spain, a company to trade with the South American colonies and with Asia through the Philippine Islands-the Real Compañia de Filipinas, and an agricultural and hydraulic project known as the Canal de Cabarrus which is the origin of today's Canal de Isabel II, supplying the water to the city of Madrid, in the northeast of the Madrid Community-in the course of the Jarama and within the municipal boundaries of the towns of Torrelaguna, Patones, Torremocha del Jarama, Uceda and Caraquiz.

Among these are the Embassies of the USA, Canada, Japan and Korea, the Asian Development Bank, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Chevron and Shell.

* Philippine National Bank in the Philippines

Banknotes of the Philippine peso are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ( Central Bank of the Philippines ) for circulation in the Philippines.

Among the notable financial institutions with branches in various parts of the city are Bank of the Philippine Islands, Metrobank, Banco de Oro, RCBC, Robinsons Bank, Philippine Veterans Bank, and the Bank of Commerce.

However, the Cayman Islands still participates in some international organisations, being a full member of the Central Development Bank and International Olympic Committee, an associate member of Caricom and UNESCO, and a member of a subbureau of Interpol.

Diego Garcia is the largest land mass in the Chagos Archipelago ( which includes Peros Banhos, the Salomon Islands, the Three Brothers, the Egmont Islands and the Great Chagos Bank ), being an atoll occupying approximately, of which is dry land.

The Falkland Islands do not have a central bank but the Standard Chartered Bank has a single branch in Stanley that offers retail, commercial and wholesale banking facilities.

Together with nearby islands, all on Turks Bank, those two main islands form the two of the six administrative districts of the territory that fall within the Turks Islands.

east of the Turks Islands and separated from them by Mouchoir Passage is the Mouchoir Bank.

Mouchoir Bank is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands and falls within its Exclusive Economic Zone.

Norie, in his Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Florida, The Bahama Bank & Islands ( 1828 ) states: " Duck Key-Some two miles ( 3 km ) long, low, rocky, & covered with mangroves ; some small patches of good land with a little timber.

In 1997, a government-appointed tribunal led by Judge Brian McCracken first revealed that Haughey had received substantial monetary gifts from businessmen, and that he had held secret offshore bank accounts in the Ansbacher Bank in the Cayman Islands.

The System serves these territories as follows: the New York Bank serves the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands ; the Richmond Bank serves the District of Columbia ; the San Francisco Bank serves American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Popular, Inc., doing business as Banco Popular in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and as Popular Community Bank in the United States, is a financial services conglomerate that has been operating in Puerto Rico for almost 115 years and in the United States for over 52 years.

Approximately 80 % of the global population of the endangered Bank Cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus breeds on Mercury Island and in the Ichaboe Islands.

The Islands are volcanic in origin ; Saya de Malha ( 35 mya ) was the first of the Mascarene islands to rise out of the Indian Ocean due to the Réunion hotspot, followed by Nazareth Bank ( some 2, 000 yrs later ), Soudan Bank and Cargados Carajos.

The Bank of Barcelona, probably the oldest public bank in Europe, was established by the city magistrates in 1401.

* 1897 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.

* 1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $ 1. 4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

* 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.

* February 26 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $ 1. 4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Today, the bank is called the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company, and it is the oldest surviving African-American bank in the U. S. Other figures from this time included John Mitchell, Jr.

The Bank of South Carolina, the second oldest building constructed as a bank in the nation, was established here in 1798.

The Bank of Saint George is among the oldest in the world, as it was founded in 1407, playing an important role in the city ’ s prosperity from the middle of the 15th century.

) He would also go on to found the Wyandotte Savings Bank in 1871, which was housed in the Main Office building of the Eureka Iron Works ( which still stands at the southwest corner of Biddle and Elm ; though greatly remodelled it remains the oldest building in the city today ).

The Old State Bank, on the edge of downtown, is the oldest bank building in the State of Alabama, at 173 years old.

The Palmer State Bank opened in 1912 and was the oldest state bank in the Christian County.

The oldest is Citizens Bank, founded in 1909, and has ten locations in Macon County and surrounding areas.

Institutions of 1880s still in operation include " The Farmersville Times " which is the oldest newspaper in Collin County and the First Bank, as well as the two churches mentioned above.

Lawson is home to Ray County's oldest bank, Lawson Bank, founded in 1883.

Grameen Bank in Bangladesh is the oldest and probably best-known microfinance institution in the world.

* St. George's Church, third oldest church in the world located in Burqin, West Bank

With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the second oldest surviving bank ( the Bank of England having been established one year before ) in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to remain in existence.

Merchant banks in the United Kingdom came into existence in the early 19th century, the oldest being Barings Bank.

In mid December 2010, BMO announced its purchase of Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, which does business as M & I Bank, Wisconsin's largest and oldest bank, mainly doing business in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Arizona, along with the Indianapolis market.

A small arboretum at Bank Hall Gardens, Bretherton in Lancashire, contains a yew thought to be at least 550 years old, the oldest in Lancashire.

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

The Church of St. Mary in northwestern Iran for example, is considered by some historians to be the second oldest church in Christendom after the Church of Bethlehem in the West Bank.

The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest commercial bank in the Indian Subcontinent.