The service operates much like a savings bank which is important, because plenty of Kenyans do not have bank accounts.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

After the end of the Bank of the United States, there was little control of any kind over the state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The central bank said it would buy up to an additional seven hundred fifty billion dollars in mortgage-related securities.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Ireland's bank bailout and government spending have expanded this year's deficit to more than thirty percent of gross domestic product.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

The World Bank estimates that developing nations will need between two hundred seventy and seven hundred billion dollars in financing.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to 1.5% - its lowest ever.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

This week,Bank of America said it received a letter from investors holding almost fifty billion dollars in mortgage-backed securities.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

That bill would not create an independent consumer agency, but instead a new office at the Federal Reserve, the central bank.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

During the struggle over the bank bills, the Whigs did not forget the other parts of Senator Clay's legislative program.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

In the nineteen eighties, governments and lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund changed market policies.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

International banking lawyer Ernie Patrikis, a former vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, explains why.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Ben Bernanke led the central bank through extraordinary efforts to contain the worst economic crisis since the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

He wanted no limits of any kind on the power of a national bank to open offices anywhere in the country.

VOA: special.2009.01.29