What was the name of the first bank chartered by the United States Congress, in 1781?
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Bank of North America
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What was the name of the first bank chartered by the United States Congress, in 1781?
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Bank of North America
What U.S. law repealed the Glass-Steagall Act's separation of commercial and investment banking in 1999?
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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
What is the name of the international committee that sets global banking regulations, based in Basel?
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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
What was the original name of Citibank when it was founded in 1812?
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City Bank of New York
Which American bank was founded in 1904 as the Bank of Italy?
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Bank of America
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What U.S. law repealed the Glass-Steagall Act's separation of commercial and investment banking in 1999?
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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
What is the name of the international committee that sets global banking regulations, based in Basel?
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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
What was the original name of Citibank when it was founded in 1812?
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City Bank of New York
Which American bank was founded in 1904 as the Bank of Italy?
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Bank of America
Which bank was formed by the merger of Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan in 2000?
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JPMorgan Chase
What was the name of the monetary system that fixed exchange rates to the US dollar from 1944 to 1971?
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Bretton Woods system
Which U.S. law, enacted in 1994, allowed banks to branch across state lines?
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Riegle-Neal Act
What interest rate do banks charge their most creditworthy customers?
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Prime rate