Banking

Many retailers in Jakarta refuse to exchange purchases unless you can show them your ......

I saw a very good ..... advertised in the newspaper this week.

I must remember to fill in my tax ..... before the end of this week.

The term "dual banking system" means that both the California and the US governments ..... bank charters.

From a ..... combined outlay of estimated US$500m at the end of 2003, foreign investors have now committed as much as US$18bn to the Chinese banking sector in the past 12 months alone.

Singapore is also seeing a trend to establish global treasury centres; Singapore's infrastructure, political stability and favourable time zone, located centrally in the Asia-Pacific region, have greatly benefited multinational corporations in supporting a global cash ......

Alfa Bank (Ukraine) is part of the Russian financial and industrial ..... Alfa-Group; this Ukrainian bank cannot only rely on the support of its parent company in Russia, but is a rapidly growing and profitable entity in its own right.

Dubai Islamic Bank encountered a ..... in trying to acquire MNG Bank (transaction value estimated at US$160m), but Kuwait-based The International Investor (TII) succeeded in taking over Adabank (formerly owned by the UZAN group) for a total of TL45.1m (US$32m).

Adabank had been seized by the Banking Supervision and Regulation Agency (BDDK) in July 2003 as part of the Imar Bank investigations and was put up for public ..... by the Saving and Deposits Insurance Fund (TMSF).

Aside from these Participation Banks, a growing number of Islamic finance houses now have a ..... in Turkey; institutions such as Amlak Finance, Dubai Bank and the National Bank of Kuwait have established representative offices or formed partnerships in order to take an active role in the development of the sector in Turkey.