As shareholders the Member States are represented on the Bank's main independent decision-making bodies – the Board of Governors and the Board of Directors.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

The system was rolled out across Australia in 2009 ; other systems being rolled out are Westpac Bank's MasterCard PayPass and Visa payWave branded cards.

Countries are categorized by the World Bank's most recent grouping by GNI (" Gross National Income ") per capita.

The Bank's member governments are shareholders which contribute paid-in capital and have the right to vote on its matters.

The World Bank's ( the IBRD and IDA's ) activities are focused on developing countries, in fields such as human development ( e. g. education, health ), agriculture and rural development ( e. g. irrigation, rural services ), environmental protection ( e. g. pollution reduction, establishing and enforcing regulations ), infrastructure ( e. g. roads, urban regeneration, electricity ), and governance ( e. g. anti-corruption, legal institutions development ).

Its owners are the Member States of the European Union, who subscribe to the Bank's capital – EUR 232 billion.

Architectural Window Manufacturing Corporation's plant and Boiling Springs Savings Bank's corporate headquarters are located in Rutherford.

Expenses and dividends paid are typically a small fraction of a Federal Reserve Bank's income each year.

Such a review would pose difficulties since evidence on how its most senior policymakers arrived at their decisions is destroyed as a matter of course, as are those of the meetings of the interim Financial Policy Committee, which was set up in 2011 as part of the Bank's greater responsibility for financial stability.

These are copies of a pair nicknamed " Stephen " and " Stitt " which have stood outside the Bank's Headquarters at 1 Queen's Road Central in Hong Kong since 1935.

The Hong Kong lions are named after yet another pair of lions that guarded the Bank's Shanghai headquarters on The Bund after it opened in 1923.

Top7 was featured as the RCSB Protein Data Bank's ' Molecule of the Month ' in October 2005, and a superposition of the respective cores ( residues 60-79 ) of its predicted and X-ray crystal structures are featured in the Rosetta @ home logo.

The Bulgarian National Bank's headquarters in Sofia are located on the central Battenberg Square.

Customers, be they personal, business or corporate, are the Bank's business partners.

Survey findings also corroborate the Reserve Bank's claim that consumers have changed their behaviour in order to avoid paying third-party ATM fees now that they are more aware that such fees exist.

Citi Private Bank's major competitors are JP Morgan Chase Private Bank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America's United States Trust Corporation, UBS Wealth Management, and HSBC Private Bank.

Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the Bank's Governor must write an open letter of explanation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer if inflation exceeds the target by more than one percentage point in either direction, and once every three months thereafter until prices are back within the allowed range.

On the first day of each meeting, the Committee studies data relating to the UK economy, as well as the worldwide economy, presented by the Bank's economists and regional representatives, and topics for discussion are identified.

Minutes of each meeting, which explain the reasons for the decision and list the votes of each member, are published on the Bank's website after a two-week delay.

Their views and expectations for inflation are also republished in the Bank's quarterly inflation report.

Gulf of Maine shelf waters are the Bank's primary source.

The Central Reserve Bank's target annual inflation is 2. 0 percent, with a tolerance of one percentage point upward and downward ; its policies are aimed at achieving that goal.

The Bank's services are available to individuals, corporate entities and government.

A second company was formed as part of the Army of the Potomac, and a third company joined General Bank's expedition in Louisiana.

In March 1991 the Auditor General of South Australia was appointed to conduct an inquiry to determine the causes of the State Bank's need for Government support.

By 1869, he succeeded Edwin Henry King as the Bank's General Manager with an annual salary of $ 8, 000, a position he held for the next ten years.

The IBRD is governed by the World Bank's Board of Governors which meets annually and consists of one governor per member country ( most often the country's finance minister or treasury secretary ).

In 1959, the World Bank's Board of Governors approved a U. S .- born resolution calling for the drafting of the articles of agreement.

The IDA is governed by the World Bank's Board of Governors which meets annually and consists of one governor per member country ( most often the country's finance minister or treasury secretary ).

In a debate on the proposed Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy at the Bank's 2006 Annual Meetings, shareholders directed Wolfowitz to undertake extensive consultations and revise the strategy to show how objective measures of corruption would be incorporated into decisions and how the shareholders ' representatives on the Bank's Board would play a key role.

The Payments System Board fills the role of deciding on the Bank's payments system policy and the Reserve Bank Board is responsible for all other monetary and banking policies of the bank.

During Zoellick's time at the World Bank, the institution's capital stock has been expanded and lending volumes increased to help member countries deal with the global financial and economic crisis ; assistance has been stepped-up to deal with the famine in the Horn of Africa ; a major increase in resources has been achieved for the institution's soft loan facility, the International Development Association ( IDA ), which lends to the poorest countries ; and a reform has been carried out to the World Bank's shareholding, Executive Board and voting structure, to increase the influence of developing and emerging economies in the World Bank's governance.

Abs was a powerful financier, who helped the museum purchase the work ; he was on the Board of Directors ; he was a Friend of the Museum ; at the time he was honorary president and member of Deutsche Bank's advisory board.

" Each bank has a nine member board of directors: three elected by the commercial banks in the Bank's region, and six chosen — three each by the member banks and the Board of Governors --" to represent the public with due consideration to the interests of agriculture, commerce, industry, services, labor and consumers.

The head of the Central Bank is the Governor, who is appointed by the Bank's Board of Directors.

Luis Alberto Moreno was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank during a special meeting of the Bank's Board of Governors at IDB headquarters in Washington, D. C. on 27 July 2005 and took office on 1 October 2005.

The Act also set out the responsibilities of the MPC: it would meet monthly ; its membership comprise the Governor, two Deputy Governors, two of the Bank's Executive Directors and four members appointed by the Chancellor.

He also has a high level of influence over the appointment of the Bank's Governor and Deputy Governors, and has the right of consultation over the appointment of the two remaining MPC members from within the Bank.

It additionally formalised the Bank's administrative powers of monetary and banking policy and exchange control and also stated the Governor was responsible for managing the Bank.

In his early career he was: Solicitor for the Handelsbank ( Commercial Bank ) of Stockholm ( 1914 ); head of Bank's Commercial Credit Department ( 1915 ); Assistant Manager and Solicitor of Stockholm Mortgage Bank for several years ; Governor of the Central Bank of Sweden ( Sveriges Riksbank, 1929 – 1948 ); Director of Bank of International Settlements ( 1931 – 1933 and 1937 – 1949 ).

The Bank's current Governor is Dr. Alan Bollard.

* 1848: The Governor withdrew Union Bank's right to issue bank notes and transferred these rights to the Colonial Bank of Issue ( CBI ).

In 1960, when the Reserve Bank of Australia was created to take over the Commonwealth Bank's central banking functions, Coombs was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank.