France's long-suffering taxpayers can only hope that this rise encourages the French state to keep at least one of its 1995 promises: to privatise the bank before the end of the century.
In a century the bank has speeded up the production of this vital piece of information by four weeks.
In the first half of the 20th century foreign investment was largely in the form of bank deposits and government bonds.
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Though the scale of its network was not new the Bardi and the Peruzzi, the great Italian banking houses of the early 14th century, had more branches and probably more power the Medici bank was the most international of its time.
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Well joining me to discuss what banks do for us and what they should do in the 21st Century - I have Stuart Cliffe from the National Association of Bank Customers, Rory Murphy who's joint general secretary of the banking union UNIFI - and Tim Sweeney of course director general of the British Bankers Association.
Morgan, the bank that came to dominate finance in America by the end of the 19th century.
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The secrecy of Swiss bank accounts dated back to the Middle Ages but was made law in the early 20th century with the passage of the Banking Law of 1934.
On the first working day of the year, however, the highly influential Bank of England lowered its key lending rate from a century-high 7%.
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The Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 pact aimed at reining in carbon emissions, aimed to limit that increase to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) by 2100 -- but a November report by the World Bank warned that trends point more toward an increase twice that big by the end of the century.
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