Once they climbed the crazy mountain of Greek bureaucracy and reached the summit, they faced the quagmire of the bank, where the issue of how to confirm the credit card details of customers ended in the bank demanding that the entire website be in Greek only, including the names of the products.
Visa signed a multi-year deal with the State Bank of India to issue Visa debit products across the SBI franchise.
They offer the OKPAY Debit Card which is issued by CSC24Seven.com Limited, a financial institution licensed by the Central Bank of Cyprus to issue cards.
Meanwhile, the SNP MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Willie Coffey, is to ask the Scottish banks, the Royal Mail, the Royal Mint and the Bank of England to issue commemorative notes, stamps and coins in Burns' honour.
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In evidence to a Parliamentary committee, Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, said no issue was more important at the moment than the restoration of general bank lending.
And the waters were muddied last month when Deutsche Bank, one of the issue's lead managers, pondered buying the bank itself before apparently finding it too dear.
Lord Myners told the BBC's Today programme he was "not aware" of any Whitehall figures raising the issue with the Bank of England.
Bank of Ireland said the issue arose following the installation of anti-fraud measures, which resulted in the normal system response of an automatic refund failing for these particular transactions.
The Bank of England recognises this issue.
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The issue of bank executives' pay has drawn public, regulators' and politicians' ire.
Under the high Victorian Gold Standard, the Bank of England was allowed to issue banknotes over and above the actual gold-backing held in its vaults.
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"The issue of bank current account charges is a matter of real concern to the banks' customers, and raises wider questions about competition and transparency of pricing, " said Mr Fingleton.
My favorites here are a Wells Fargo Bank Convertible Preferred Issue (WFC L 1285) yielding 5.8% and a similar convertible preferred issue by Bank of America (BAC L 1198) that yields 6.05%.
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has discussed the issue of bank lending - or the reported lack of it - with representatives from the main banks, as well as the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor George Osborne.
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The one bank that was a bit more frank that access to liquidity is an issue insists that the Bank of England's new and unconventional scheme to provide cash - the Extended Collateral Term Repo - will rectify things.
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Right now, only two U.S. banks, Bank of America and Washington Mutual, issue covered bonds.
Today if a bank wants to issue a letter of credit (LOC), they come into our client portal to do that and submit their LOC app through our proprietary portal.
Parliamentary speaker Yiannakis Omirou, who also heads the small EDEK socialist party, said the issue of taxing bank deposits was not discussed during the meeting Thursday with President Nicos Anastasiades.
The first Scottish bank notes were issued in 1696 by the Bank of Scotland, but today three banks issue notes in the country.
The computer failure affected the entire Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) group, but Ulster Bank took longest to resolve the issue.
The amount of new gilts it would have had to issue a couple of years ago to set up the bad bank was prohibitively great.
At issue is the bank's portfolio of loans to a network of credit unions and leasing companies.
Any increase in the fees charged on small transactions could help banks that issue debit cards, such as Bank of America Corp.
Though the bank denied the reports, it postponed a planned issue of subordinated bonds with which it was to strengthen its capital.
So they wrote the rules for the new currency, then set up a new European Central Bank, independent of the commission and everybody else, to issue and manage it.
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank priced the two-tranche issue this week with yields of 2.81% for the eight-year loan and 3.22% for the 12-year loan.
Bank of America has 40, 000 people today working the Countrywide issue.
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That issue of the "collateral consequences" from bank spanking was cited by US Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer when explaining why the Department of Justice had chosen not to "fully prosecute" HSBC for its money laundering and sanctions breaching offences - and had instead put the bank on probation with a deferred prosecution agreement.
Also at issue is the size and readiness of the central bank's firepower in managing the currency: its stock of dollars.
The news this morning is that allegations of accounting fictions at Deutsche Bank are now a hot-button issue at the SEC.
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