Another legal issue that has surfaced concerns the 476 million reichsmarks lent against its will to Germany by the Greek National Bank during the war.
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Her family, including her uncle Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, were major shareholders in an Austrian sugar refinery but their savings were plundered from a Swiss bank during the war.
Across a bridge from Vitoria, in Vila Velha, another community bank has also declared a war on rubbish.
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By financing dams, highways and steel mills, the World Bank would hasten recovery from the war and, over the long term, would help less developed nations achieve rapid growth.
But after a frustrating year, most of that money has gone home: no major deals have emerged (although Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, is in a bidding war for the Regent Hotel in Bangkok).
But with the new government having announced the biggest round of budget cuts since World War II, the Bank still expects the resulting slowdown in spending to bring inflation down over the next two years.
It may also reflect collaboration, which is now common in such war zones as the West Bank city of Nablus.
There's a risk that the Bank will always be fighting the last war and thus - possibly - paving the way for the next one.
Ethiopia, where Mr O'Neill will wind up his visit by attending the annual meeting of the African Development Bank, is scarred by a recent war with Eritrea.
When he personally helped the Allies create institutions like the World Bank, at the end of World War II, he was trying to make sure we wouldn't get into such a mess again.
Until the failure in November last year of Hanwa Bank, a middling regional bank, no Japanese bank had gone bust since the second world war.
The Cassa di Risparmio kept its cross-border contacts during the cold war, says Roberto Verginella, the bank's chairman, and it was encouraged by the Croatian central bank to open the Zagreb subsidiary.
So, will someone please tell me why we still have the continued misinformed and misguided war on banks at a time when bank lending is so much needed to keep the fragile economic recovery going?
This covered not only money deposited by German Jews in Swiss banks that was never reclaimed, but also bullion of doubtful origin that the Swiss National Bank had bought from the German Reichsbank during the war.
Last month, Mr Weidmann raised the spectre of a global currency war, suggesting the erosion of central bank independence around the world threatened to unleash a race to the bottom as politicians pushed central banks to replace inflation targets with measures that could serve to weaken currencies.
This market has been assured from the highest authority, credible or not, that the European Central Bank (ECB) sees no risk of a currency war and that it must be avoided.
The region has been cut off from the central bank in Khartoum, the capital, by two decades of war.
In recent years, the bank has expanded its activities in other countries that have lately experienced war, such as Bosnia, Timor-Leste, and Liberia.
Her family, major shareholders in an Austrian sugar refinery before World War II, had their savings plundered from a Swiss bank by the Nazis.
He said the "tripartite" system of financial regulation - in which responsibility was divided between the Treasury, the Bank of England and the FSA - had "failed us in war and in peace" and told MPs the government's Financial Services Bill would toughen regulation.
But Greece claims that it has never been repaid for a loan of 476 million reichsmarks that the Greek National Bank was forced to hand to Nazi Germany interest-free during the war.
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Not because of war, because of the social welfare system, aging populations and bank debt.
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Chase did create a new federal bank regulatory system and printed federal money for the first time since the Revolutionary War.
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The deal faltered mainly because Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, which had provided two-thirds of Krupp's DM15 billion war chest, got cold feet.
In 1994, Israel and the PLO signed a historic agreement giving Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip their first measure of freedom since the 1967 Middle East war.
The United Arab Emirates has promised to deposit money in the Central Bank, and Saudi Arabia, which fell out with Jordan during the Gulf war over its forgiving stance towards Iraq, has promised to resume its once-huge handouts.
During the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 Ben-Gurion forbade the army to conquer the West Bank.
In March, the normally optimistic World Bank said global economic output will contract this year for the first time since World War II, and that international trade will decline the most it has in 80 years.
Some leaders have urged the meeting to begin the process of launching a new global agreement to stimulate prosperity, similar to the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 that created the post-war system of fixed exchange rates and established the IMF and the World Bank.
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