First Bank of the Americas, for instance, has linked up with churches serving immigrants.
Ultimately they got a loan through City First Bank, a community development bank right in Washington.
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Wells Fargo is not the first bank to make changes, nor will it be the last.
Banks such as Texas First Bank and USAA pledged fee-free debit cards over Twitter.
For many Africans, their cell phone account is the first bank account they've ever owned.
Capital One was the first bank to issue credit cards without foreign transaction fees.
However, she suggested the 2015 date could either be a one-off or replace the first bank holiday in May.
Credito Italiano was Italy's first bank privatisation, at the end of 1993.
They are already on the line for last month's rescue of Korea First Bank, and face additional bills as other banking companies need emergency help.
The last time oil was this high was Sept. 26, 2008, the last trading day before the U.S. House rejected the first bank bailout bill.
In 2008 CMB became the first bank to obtain a license to operate in New York since Bank of China entered the market in 1981.
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Telluride is one of the most charming in skiing, so historic and Old West that it is home to the first bank ever robbed by Butch Cassidy.
The action by 2, 800 staff (nearly half the workforce) at SC First Bank Korea is ostensibly over a merit-pay scheme, which would be at odds with Korean seniority-based traditions.
For 88% of Equity's customers, the bank was the first bank at which they ever opened an account, and more than three-quarters of Equity's loans are unsecured by collateral.
He says banks can't be trusted to deliver this information, because the first bank to do so might look the most expensive bank in town and could lose lots of business.
"The first bank started surcharging in 1996 and within three years the other banks had followed, " Tracy Shelton, a lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group, told BBC News.
If you draw a loan from one bank and keep your deposits in another bank, you use the deposits in that bank to pay off the loan to the first bank.
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But in England, the first bank to fall over was Northern Rock, brought low firstly, by offering mortgages on too generous terms (125% of valuation and so on) and by their funding model.
But the news, far from reassuring anyone, sparked a run on Northern Rock, Britain's first bank run since the 1860s, and caused all manner of wild worries about the whole British banking system.
The source told CNN that Abdulmutallab's father -- who recently retired as chairman of First Bank PLC, one of Nigeria's premier banks -- had his concerns raised by a text message from his son.
Lamido Sanusi, a risk-control officer who will take over next January as the head of Nigeria's oldest bank, First Bank, is disappointed that regulators are not tougher in insisting on transparency and disclosure of information.
And designated community banks, such as First Bank of the Americas in the heart of Chicago's Hispanic district, are supported by the Treasury when they offer low-cost services, such as basic loans, aimed at previously unserved populations.
In 2009, Elie retained Ifrah, who was also working for Pokerstars, Full Tilt and a bank in Utah known as Sun First Bank, to obtain information regarding the legalities of processing financial transactions related to online poker, according to the complaint.
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The liquidation of the IBRC bank (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) in Ireland in February 2013 was a watershed moment in so far as it was the first bank in the eurozone that was resolved where senior bondholders, albeit small in numbers, were wiped out in their entirety.
Gone are the days of the Clydesdale Bank when it had a reputation of being the businessman's bank, when it looked after its customers and sometimes staff too, when it could make profits without effort, when it could afford to innovate and to effectively become the first bank with an online counter system.
Last year the Kenyan authorities licensed two Islamic banks, Gulf African Bank and First Community Bank, both backed by Gulf investment.
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One of those start-ups, Saigon National Bank, was the first national bank chartered and owned by Vietnamese-Americans.
Previously, non-banks in the U.S. would have to negotiate a contract with a chartered, regulated banking entity like Choice Bank Limited in Belize or First Covenant Bank in Georgia or MetaBank in Iowa for their prepaid card issuing.
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