The Bank is one of eight banks authorised to issue banknotes in the United Kingdom, but has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales and regulates the issue of banknotes by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

However, the limitations of the 1844 Act only affected banks in England and Wales, and today three commercial banks in Scotland and four in Northern Ireland continue to issue their own sterling banknotes, regulated by the Bank of England.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

In other cases, central banks may incorporate the word " Central " ( for example, European Central Bank, Central Bank of Ireland ); but the Central Bank of India is a ( government-owned ) commercial bank and not a central bank.

* 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £ 26. 5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.

It carries all the routing information needed to get a payment from one bank to another wherever it may be ; it contains all the key bank account details such as Bank Identifier Codes, branch codes ( known as sort codes in the UK and Ireland ) and account numbers and it contains check digits which can be validated at source according to a single standard procedure.

* The President appoints, on the advice of the Government, the Senior Professors and chairman of the council of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ; the governor of the Central Bank of Ireland ; the members of the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal ; the Ombudsman ; and the members of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

The Bank of North America played a major role in financing the war against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* Northern Bank, commercial bank in Northern Ireland

* Securities Markets Program, a monetary policy tool allowing the European Central Bank to purchase distressed government bonds of the European periphery ( Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Italy )

KBC Bank Ireland ( formerly IIB Bank ) and the Economic and Social Research Institute ( a think-tank ) have published a monthly consumer sentiment index since January 1996.

Numerous signs of Huguenot presence can still be seen with names still in use, and with areas of the main towns and cities named after the people who settled there, for instance the Huguenot District and French Church Street in Cork City, D ' Olier Street in Dublin named after a High Sheriff, and one of the founders of the Bank of Ireland.

Bank of Ireland

In the town's main street is the prominent and beautifully renovated Bank of Ireland known also as Harrison Hall.

After 1903 it became a recreational hall to commemorate Dr John Harrison ( who was a physician in Roscommon town ’ s workhouse, during the famine of the 1840s ) it was used as a dance hall, cinema and theatre before it was sold to the Bank of Ireland in 1972.

The Old Gaol is the second most prominent building in the town and faces the back of the Bank of Ireland now houses a modern shopping centre, the facade is all that remains of the original structure.

On her state tour to Russia, highlighting the importance of competence, she launched an unprecedented attack on the Central Bank of Ireland for their role in the financial crisis

The Central Bank of Ireland fined The Irish Times in 2008 after it admitted breaking market abuse rules.

World leaders counted among its graduates include the current President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Ma Ying-jeou ; former Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines, Renato Corona ; Chief Justice of Singapore-designate Sundaresh Menon ; former President of the World Bank Group, Robert Zoellick ; current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay ; and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.

They also controlled financial companies such as the Bank of Ireland and Goodbody Stockbrokers.

On 17 July 1942 at the fifth and final stage of the Dáil debate on the " Central Banking Bill ", he argued that the owner of the credit issued by the Central Bank of Ireland, should be the private property of the joint stock banker and not the property of the people of Ireland.

Upon receipt of an application which the Export-Import Bank is prepared to consider, the Export-Import Bank will inform the Department of Economic Affairs of the identity of the applicant, the nature of the proposed business, the amount of the proposed loan, and the general purposes for which the loan proceeds would be expended.

When the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application, it will so notify the Department of Economic Affairs and will indicate the interest rate and the repayment period which would be used under the proposed loan.

Within sixty days after the receipt of notice that the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application the Department of Economic Affairs will indicate to the Export-Import Bank whether or not the Department of Economic Affairs has any objection to the proposed loan.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

A special presentation was made to Mrs. Geraldine Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on the committee.

-- Alfred Hayes, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said Tuesday `` there is no present need for far-reaching reforms '' which would basically alter the international financial system.

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership ; World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies ; the International Monetary Fund ; and the World Bank.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.

The writer Arundhati Roy is famous for her anti-nuclear position and her activism against India's massive hydroelectric dam project, sponsored by the World Bank.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

RFMBT is the only merchant bank in The Bahamas and is a joint venture with Royal Bank of Canada.

Belarus is eligible for Export-Import Bank short-term financing insurance for U. S. investments, but because of the adverse business climate, no projects have been initiated.

The microfinance sector is also subject to supervision through the Central Bank as well as the responsible Ministry for Microfinance and Employment of Youth and Women.

Bulgaria is an industrialised upper-middle-income country according to the World Bank with a gross national income per capita of US $ 6, 280 in 2010.

Burundi is a member of various international and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the African Union, the African Development Bank and the Francophonie.