Poorer households tend to put their money, if they have any spare, into bank and building-society accounts, where they do not escape the taxman.
The rest of it from the beach forward was out--that was the old bank building and it actually withstood more than it--now just the vault is left, and it's just unbelievable.
Large-short positions that have been building in some big-bank stocks could be a warning flag to investors who saw a nice performance in the financial sector last year and are trawling for their next big winner.
Exactly what is most crucial in the process of nation-building the Bank's experts do not say.
The group confirmed it also plans to extend its legal services across all 330 high street branches of the Co-operative Bank and Britannia Building Society.
In its final stage, it transformed itself into an investment bank by building a corporate-finance arm to sell its hundreds of holdings, several of which have been floated in London and Stockholm.
But many of Turkey's complaints, such as over settlement-building in the West Bank, are hardly controversial.
Barack Obama has given up trying to force Mr Netanyahu to halt settlement-building in the West Bank.
The Co-operative bank merged with the Britannia building society, which has its headquarters in Leek in Staffordshire, in 2009.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the present prime minister, strikes a deal not only with Hamas but responds to Mr Abbas's pleas for a freeze on Jewish settlement-building in the West Bank with a surge in construction.
From its inception, the World Bank, which occupies an imposing thirteen-story building off Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks west of the White House, has represented a peculiar blend of idealism and Realpolitik.
It is discussing schemes with the BOE to reduce bank funding costs and lower credit costs for house-building and infrastructure spending.
Even in Dubai, where the sky is still alarmingly full of cranes and half-finished towers, one Western bank is contemplating building a new office for itself because existing buildings are not up to scratch.
Some are dilapidated but others have been spectacularly restored, including the former Bank of Indochina building, which now houses a fine-dining restaurant with an excellent view across the square.
That in turn means that the competitive playing field will be tilted even more to the disadvantage of the likes of the Co-Operative Bank and the Coventry, Skipton and Newcastle building societies than was already the case.
It so happens that this will more or less coincide with the expiry of Mr Netanyahu's ten-month freeze on building settlements in the West Bank.
The house-price measures compiled by the Halifax bank and the Nationwide building society are designed to avoid distortions caused by variation in the type of property being sold.
The next morning, many of the building's shops and a first-floor bank remained closed.
Luxury developers try to set aside sums that will give allow for a well-appointed home that reflects the building without breaking the bank.
When its profitability dipped last summer, according to its SEC filings, Inktomi was forced to exercise a purchase option--in essence to repay Deutsche Bank for the loan on the building.
In a note to investors Friday, Bank of America analyst Scott Craig said Apple will begin building a third-generation iPhone in May.
They are especially concerned that Mr Netanyahu should extend his freeze on the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank after the promised ten-month period elapses in September.
The bank started out as Equity Building Society in 1984, a mortgage financier for low-income Kenyans.
He pointed to planning reforms and cutting red tape as examples of how the government was boosting growth - but vowed not to repeat the mistakes of the past on bank regulation when building the "new" economy.
He's replaced the division's management and is winding down the mortgage services business "very radically" but adds that he still sees some "good development opportunities in the U.S." One is the Hispanic community, building on HSBC's status as Mexico's fourth-largest bank (it bought Banco Internacional there in 2002) and the largest in Central America.
The union representing workers at the Britannia building society has said it is "disappointed" that the Co-operative bank is to drop its name.
The bank, which often has avoided dealing with larger private-equity firms, also recently sold an office building in Dublin to Kennedy Wilson, a Beverly Hills, Calif.
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They have been sited at the authentic French chateau-styled Yates building, the 1874 Victoria Building with its Italianesque style, the former NatWest Bank building and the Chaucer buildings.
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No one would have imagined Kendall making his weekly drop-off at the mailbox outside the all-cash building (to keep the doormen from noticing the deposit envelopes addressed to the Kewanee bank).
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