Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability and has a place in the history of the sport among the very best in this role, being named the 3rd greatest goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS behind Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks.

Because of the large amounts of funds that move through the Reserve Banks every day, the System has policies and procedures to limit the risk to the Reserve Banks from a depository institution's failure to make or settle its payments.

Ghana through the Banking ( Amendment ) Act 2007 has include the awarding of General Banking license to qualified Banks and this allows Offshore Banks to operate in the country.

Banks launched Mullan's book in Dublin, Derry and at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke in the Summer of 2006 and has described Mullan as ' my greatest fan '.

A later claim of a live individual sighted in 1852 on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland has been accepted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ).

In turn, she has influenced Booker prize winners and other writers, such as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell — and notable futurism and fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks.

However, since 1997 it has been increasingly common for governments of the larger nations to bypass Investment Banks by making their bonds directly available for purchase over the internet.

The band is loosely modelled on Pink Floyd or Fleetwood Mac although Banks has said, in a newspaper piece, that the character Weird was in part modeled on Fish, the ex-Marillion singer and lyricist.

Iain Banks has given his own Culture name as " Sun-Earther Iain El-Bonko Banks of North Queensferry ".

Banks has said " Inversions was an attempt to write a Culture novel that wasn't.

Banks ensures that the Luskentyrian theology ( in which Isis fervently believes at the start of the book ) has coherence and consistency, even as events cause her to start to doubt.

Banks has called it:

Recently, the amount of forest on Banks Peninsula has increased from a minimum of about one percent of its original forest cover.

He has strongly urged me not to leave his Ministers in peace until they have introduced a bill for the expedition to Chatham Island .’, Lavaud stated in reply that he thought it better for the penal settlement to be at Banks Peninsula, because of the remoteness of the Chathams and the lack of suitable anchorage there.

Banks has noted that he spent much time playing the Civilization computer game ( appearing to refer to the first version of the game series ) before writing the book and that it was one of the inspirations for the concept of the ' Outside Context Problem ' central to the novel.

Banks himself has described the actions of some of the Minds in the novel as akin to " barbarian kings presented with the promise of gold in the hills ".

Banks has said it is the last of his old material that he has to rewrite.

The project involved over-wintering the Amundsen in the Banks Island flaw lead in the Southern Beaufort Sea, the first time this has ever been done.

IAS 39 and IAS 40: Implementation of these standards has been held in abeyance by State Bank of Pakistan for Banks and DFIs

Tyrrell County due its close proximity to the Outer Banks has been designated as part of the IBX-Inner Banks

It was independently described as Ornithorhynchus paradoxus by Johann Blumenbach in 1800 ( from a specimen given to him by Sir Joseph Banks ) and following the rules of priority of nomenclature it was later officially recognised as Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

Other science fiction authors have devised their own variants of Niven's Ringworld, notably Iain M. Banks ' Culture Orbitals, best described as miniature Ringworlds, and the ring-shaped Halo structure of the video game Halo.

The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.

* The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks, mentions Mornington Crescent as a game created by the fictional company Wopuld Ltd., described as being " based on the map of the London underground with a complicated double-level board ".

DeWar's tales of Lavishia clearly parallel The Culture as it is described in Banks ' other novels.

The term is coined by Banks for the purpose of this novel, and described as follows:

Banks, themselves, are often described in terms of markets, as " transducers of trust " between lenders ( who deposit money ) and borrowers ( who take it out again ).

Commentators have argued that for storyline purposes, the Star Trek directive is broken almost as much in that franchise as intentional intervention occurs in Banks ' universe, but the Star Trek characters have to be described as trying to not intervene, whereas Banks can let his characters act purposefully.

The Blue-winged Kookaburra was first collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, but was initially overlooked and confused with the Laughing Kookaburra, and was finally officially described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1826, its specific name commemorating the British zoologist William Elford Leach.

While in China, Abel collected specimens and seeds of the plant that carries his name, Abelia chinensis, described by Banks ' botanical secretary Robert Brown, " with friendly partiality ".

The list was described by science fiction author Iain M. Banks as " amazing " and " genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF ".

" Afterglow " was composed by Tony Banks, who described it as a spontaneous piece that was written in about the same amount of time as it takes to play it and somewhat resembles " Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas "; it became a staple on Genesis tours for over 10 years, from the 1977 Wind & Wuthering Tour until the 1986 / 7 Invisible Touch Tour.

The ship has been described in reviews as " psychopathically righteous ", and as a good example of Banks ' not letting technological terms and SF-staples stand in the way of describing interesting characters.

The Thomsen River on northern Banks Island has been described as the most northerly multi-species river in North America.

Banks had approached Beck and Nolan to help him record an album of Burt Bacharach covers, but the trio had been sidetracked into recording a bizarre cover of Motörhead's " Ace Of Spades " ( in which they described themselves as having " replac ( ed ) Lemmy's timeless vocal with David's crooner voice and transform ( ed ) the heavy metal trash into a dark deranged groove ").

This is described by Isabella Varley, Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, a resident of Oldham Street, in her book The Manchester Man.

This means that in the UK the Direct Debit, invented by a number of British Banks in the first place, and now run as a separate entity, may with fairness almost be described as a restrictive practice, even though banks say that it operates outside their control, it was set up by them and is used at arms length to their advantage.

Grevillea banksii was first described by the botanist Robert Brown, who gave it its epithet in honour of Sir Joseph Banks.

This was further developed by Iain M. Banks in his Culture series, which features about 1 / 100th ringworld – size megastructures called Orbitals that orbit a star rather than encircling it entirely.

Given its dimensions ( 10, 000 kilometers in diameter ) it is more like Banks ' Culture Orbitals ( though much smaller ) than Niven's behemoth.

They are similar to the Orbitals in Iain M Banks ' Culture novels, and author Larry Niven's Ringworld concept.