Last year, I started the National Diaper Bank Network, to help diaper banks start and thrive nationwide.
But this UK food bank network is now starting to help people they never expected to see.
Second Harvest, the largest food-bank network in the country, says that about half its 183 food-distribution centers have reported increased demand over the past year.
On the back of lending to budding entrepreneurs like Mr Chrek Heang, ACLEDA had the largest retail-bank network in the country within ten years of its launch.
The Trussell Trust, a food bank network, said it fed more than 350, 000 people in the year ending in March more than double the 128, 000 served in the previous 12-month period.
Adrian Curtis, food bank network director for the trust, said the increase in numbers using UK food banks reflected a rise in food and utility bills, people losing their jobs and having less disposable income, and greater awareness that food banks exist.
BBC: UK food banks used by record number, says Trussell Trust
The payment network charges the bank a very small transaction fee for using the network, but net they are essentially letting the bank make the most from the interchange fee, hence the banks are on the subsidy side.
For SinoPac, one clear benefit would be tapping ICBC's network of bank branches to raise its profile in China, analysts said.
The prosecution said however, the money disappeared through a network of offshore bank accounts.
With his backroom savvy, copious network and tidy bank balance, he is also a master of Thailand's old-style politicking.
The drug money network that Union Bank got caught up in is part of the wider drug cartel response to tighter money laundering restrictions at U.S. banks.
As a result, every type of company involved with a debit card transaction, from the middle-man payment processing service to the company that owns the processing network to the bank that issues the card stands to have reduced revenue than they would have had otherwise.
The bank already has the largest branch network in Spain, where the mortgage market was slowing even before the credit squeeze.
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On April 2011 the network of a local bank crashed, while the website of a major newspaper was brought down in June 2012.
The World Bank has a tele-medicine network, which conveys medical findings in the United States to hospitals in the farther reaches of Latin America.
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In previous attacks, the network of a local bank crashed in April 2011, while the website of a major newspaper was brought down in June 2012.
By contrast, Norwest, which aggressively pushes traditional retail products, such as mortgages and consumer loans, through a huge network of non-bank offices as well as bank branches, has a markedly different culture from Wells Fargo's.
Perhaps the Senate budget or the president's will be wiser about investing -- although neither is likely to think big enough about transport spending or an infrastructure bank or, better, a network of regional infrastructure finance institutions.
When Banespa is privatised, any buyer will gain a large and very liquid bank with a well-sited network of more than 550 branches in Sao Paulo state, Brazil's biggest financial and business market, says Paulo Zaghen, the central-bank director in charge of rescuing state banks.
The 16-digit account number stored in your card's magnetic stripe zooms across a leased phone line to the merchant's bank, zips under the Pacific to Visa's data center outside Tokyo and rides the Visa network to the data center of your issuing bank in Delaware.
It has 10, 000 ATMs, acquired in May of 2000, giving it the U.S.' largest network after Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
It has 10, 000 ATMs, acquired in May of 2000, giving it the nation's largest network after Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
JPMorgan, which has long coveted WaMu's deposit base and presence in California, Florida and other locations where it does not have a meaningful branch network, is getting the bank for a song.
Created by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the institute has announced support from the Omidyar Network and from the World Bank, to help collect evidence globally on the benefits of open data and train senior people who will lead open data initiatives in developing countries.
At issue is the bank's portfolio of loans to a network of credit unions and leasing companies.
"Just getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right isn't enough anymore, " says Masood Ahmed, head of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network.
In its statement on Thursday, Ulster Bank said it continued to keep its branch network under review "to ensure that we are operating in the correct locations for our customers".
Earlier this year, Citigroup bought a controlling stake in KorAm Bank, which increased its private-banking network there from a dozen branches to over 200, while Standard Chartered last month opened its first branch in Seoul dedicated to private banking.
For his bank, that means running much of its global network out of Hong Kong and London.
The ubiquity of Bank of America's heavily staffed nationwide branch network is what enables it to retain customers despite charging high fees and offering depositors low interest.
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