In fact, it is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
Even factoring in the U.K.'s role as a global banking center, that debt load was 380% of GDP, the second-highest in the world.
In the case of Thailand, the opening of an offshore banking center for foreign banks, intended to increase capital inflow, proved far too successful.
Beyond ostentatious wealth, Dubai has become a major banking center.
"While it's important to treat your internship as a job interview, it's also important to make it a learning experience coupled with self-exploration, " says Holly Stroupe Vestal, a human resources consultant for Bank of America's Banking Center Channel, who was hired full time after her own internship.
Charlotte has become quite the banking and financial center.
The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.
For example, Bank of America has ATMs and online banking services at the Staples Center.
Ord might make it, because despite its relative isolation and small size, it's a regional center for government, banking, shopping, entertainment and health care.
Merrill Edge provides access to investment guidance in person at banking centers or through a call center, as well as an online self-directed investing platform.
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They are "a symbol of economic health and a vibrant community, " says Jennifer Tescher, head of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, a research group that focuses on people without a banking relationship.
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The rescue package has to pass through the Senate Banking Committee, and its chairman, Christopher Dodd (D-CT), is at the center of the debate.
Many consumers believe, mostly correctly, that they are better off working with specialist firms for retail banking, investment and insurance rather than expecting their local bank teller, or the voice in a brokerage call center, to steer them to the best products.
Microseconds away (as the e-mail flies) is the International Finance Center, with an IT occupancy of 5% (that does not include a large number of banking and finance companies that work closely with the dotcoms).
The four-day trading hiatus since the twin towers of the World Trade Center imploded on Tuesday morning has been the longest break in the U.S. since the special banking holidays ordered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
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