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‘A bank can be owned.’

[⟨det bank.n⟩ owned.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

LONDON (MarketWatch) – German state – owned bank KfW told a press conference Thursday that it’s agreed not to disclose the price it’s getting from Lone Star for its 91 % stake in IKB Deutsche Industriebank.
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In Wikipedia:

In 1857, the Arnot family gained control of the bank and operated a private family bank until 1903, when the bank again became publicly owned.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Koji Tanami, the governor of the state – owned bank, known as JBIC, and Rajendra Pachauri, who heads India’s Energy and Resources Institute, will take part in the signing ceremony in Tokyo, the bank said in an e – mailed statement today.
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In Wikipedia:

The bank was originally privately owned, but was brought under state control through The Law of the Reorganization of Central Banking.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A publicly – owned bank lent the money to farmers at 5 % interest.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A major state – owned Chinese bank on Wednesday denied accusations in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles that it transferred money to terrorist groups and said it would fight the case.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

HANOI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – HSBC Holdings Plc’s (HSBA. L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) (0005. HK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has won approval to open a fully owned bank in Vietnam, it said in a statement.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He wrote:? [W] hen the banks have failed the public interest so badly and still even now continue to pursue so single – mindedly their commitment to privatise their gains whilst socialising their losses, would not a publicly owned bank be the most effective way of changing the current corrosive financial culture of short – termism, lower investment, house price inflation, and insider enrichment at the expense of systemic fragility for everyone else?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And his first line of dialogue when he was unmasked – said to the manager of the mob – owned bank, played superbly by one of my favorite actors, William Fichtner – was as unforgettable as he is as a character, and also as the actor who plays him.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

One South Asian American businessman, a structural engineer with his own consulting firm in Alameda county (San Francisco), was able to get an unsecured line of credit only after an Asian American loan officer at another white owned bank told him that he would be eligible.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“The only thing you can say about today’s intervention is that the overnight rate is now better,’ ’ said Jan Misch, a money – market trader in Stuttgart at Landesbank Baden – Wuerttemberg, Germany’s biggest state – owned bank.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Stephen Fleming has been named president and chief executive officer of RCB Corp. and River City Bank, the largest locally owned bank in the Sacramento region.
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In Wikipedia:

The bank is publicly owned.
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In Wikipedia:

Hoare & Co, England’s oldest privately owned bank, has had its place of business here since 1690.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

PORTSMOUTH and # 8212; Linda Archambault has joined Optima Bank and Trust, the Seacoast’s only locally owned commercial bank, as operations officer.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

By 1790 Hamilton and his bankers had created a privately owned central bank and converted the public debt (interest – free) into interest bearing bonds, payable to the bankers.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

State – owned bank is said to seek a consortium to buy a stake in the U.S. concern The head of Korea Development Bank said early today that the state – owned lender is in talks to acquire troubled U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

By 1816, another privately – owned U.S. bank was started with $ 35 million in assets – only $ 7 million of that was owned by the government.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In China, the ICBC deal, announced Thursday, calls for the state – owned Chinese bank to put up $ 5.5 billion – China’s largest overseas investment ever? for a 20 % stake in Standard Bank (JSE: SBK), South Africa’s biggest lender.
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Queried on 2013-06-20.