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Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
world currency
AUKSINAS (Lithuania) - means "golden" or "gulden". Auksinas derives fromlithuanian "Auksas" which means "gold". Currently "Litas" is used in Lithuaniawhich has no particular or direct meaning or translation other than similarity withthe name of the country "Lietuva" (Lithuania; Litauen; Lituanie; Lituania).
COLON (Costa Rica, El Salvador) - derives from last name of Christopher Columbus -Cristobal Colon.DRACHMA (Greece) - means "handful".
ESCUDO (Portugal) - means "shield", referring to the coat of arms on the originalcoin.
FORINT (Hungary) - comes from the city of Florence, where golden coins were mintedfrom 1252 called fiorino d'oro. In Hungary, florentinus (later forint), also a gold-basedcurrency, was used from 1325 under Charles Robert.
FRANC (Frank, Frang) (France, Switzerland, Luxembourg) - first issued in1360, as a gold coin. Gets its name from its original Latin inscription - FrancorumRex, which means "King of the Franks", - the title given to kings of France in the1300s.
GUILDER (Gulden, Florin) (Netherlands) - from the same root as "gilded", theguilder was originally a gold coin. It was first introduced from Florence in the13th century. Florin - another nickname for Guilder means "flowers".
KORUNA (Czechia, Slovakia) - means "crown".
KRONA (Kroner, Kronor) (Iceland, Sweden, Norway etc.) - means "crown".KUNA (Croatia) - means "marten". Marten skins were used as money.
LIRA (Lire) (Italy, Turkey) - from the Latin word libra, which means "pound".
MALOTI (Kingdom of Lesotho) - Maloti is plural for Loti, currency of Lesotho,a kingdom in Southern Africa.
PESETA (Spain) - means "little peso", and was created in the 18th century as a"companion" coin to the Spanish peso.
PESO (Mexico) - means "weight". It was introduced by Spain in 1497, thenadopted by Mexico and other Latin American countries in the late 19th century.
POUND (English) - named for its weight in Sterlings, - the unit of currency inMedieval England. The first pound coin was issued in 1642.PULA (Botswana) - Pula means ‘rain’ in Setswana, but "pula pula" does notmean a lot of rain. It means luck, prosperity, health.RIYAL (Saudi Arabia) - borrows its name from the Spanish real, meaning "royal".
ROUBLE (Russia, Belarus etc.) - means "cut-off", a term that dates back to thedays when portions of silver bars were literally cut-off from the bars and used ascoins. The rouble was first issued as a silver piece in 1704.
RUPEE (Rupiah) (India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mauritius etc.) - comes from theSanskrit rupa, which means "beauty" or "shape".TAKA (Bangladesh) - the word "taka" is derived from the Sanskrit "tanka" which wasan ancient denomination of silver coin. Taka currency name was also used in North India.YEN (Japan) - borrowed from the Chinese yuan, which means "round", anddescribes the coin. First issued in 1870.YUAN (China) - means "round" and describes the coin.ZLOTY (Poland) - means "golden".
COLON (Costa Rica, El Salvador) - derives from last name of Christopher Columbus -Cristobal Colon.DRACHMA (Greece) - means "handful".
ESCUDO (Portugal) - means "shield", referring to the coat of arms on the originalcoin.
FORINT (Hungary) - comes from the city of Florence, where golden coins were mintedfrom 1252 called fiorino d'oro. In Hungary, florentinus (later forint), also a gold-basedcurrency, was used from 1325 under Charles Robert.
FRANC (Frank, Frang) (France, Switzerland, Luxembourg) - first issued in1360, as a gold coin. Gets its name from its original Latin inscription - FrancorumRex, which means "King of the Franks", - the title given to kings of France in the1300s.
GUILDER (Gulden, Florin) (Netherlands) - from the same root as "gilded", theguilder was originally a gold coin. It was first introduced from Florence in the13th century. Florin - another nickname for Guilder means "flowers".
KORUNA (Czechia, Slovakia) - means "crown".
KRONA (Kroner, Kronor) (Iceland, Sweden, Norway etc.) - means "crown".KUNA (Croatia) - means "marten". Marten skins were used as money.
LIRA (Lire) (Italy, Turkey) - from the Latin word libra, which means "pound".
MALOTI (Kingdom of Lesotho) - Maloti is plural for Loti, currency of Lesotho,a kingdom in Southern Africa.
PESETA (Spain) - means "little peso", and was created in the 18th century as a"companion" coin to the Spanish peso.
PESO (Mexico) - means "weight". It was introduced by Spain in 1497, thenadopted by Mexico and other Latin American countries in the late 19th century.
POUND (English) - named for its weight in Sterlings, - the unit of currency inMedieval England. The first pound coin was issued in 1642.PULA (Botswana) - Pula means ‘rain’ in Setswana, but "pula pula" does notmean a lot of rain. It means luck, prosperity, health.RIYAL (Saudi Arabia) - borrows its name from the Spanish real, meaning "royal".
ROUBLE (Russia, Belarus etc.) - means "cut-off", a term that dates back to thedays when portions of silver bars were literally cut-off from the bars and used ascoins. The rouble was first issued as a silver piece in 1704.
RUPEE (Rupiah) (India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mauritius etc.) - comes from theSanskrit rupa, which means "beauty" or "shape".TAKA (Bangladesh) - the word "taka" is derived from the Sanskrit "tanka" which wasan ancient denomination of silver coin. Taka currency name was also used in North India.YEN (Japan) - borrowed from the Chinese yuan, which means "round", anddescribes the coin. First issued in 1870.YUAN (China) - means "round" and describes the coin.ZLOTY (Poland) - means "golden".
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Money Transfer
Bank wire transfers are often the most expedient method for transferring funds between bank accounts. A bank wire transfer is effected as follows:
The person wishing to do a transfer (or someone who he has appointed and empowered financially to act on his behalf) goes to the bank and gives the bank the order to transfer a certain amount of money. IBAN and BIC code are given as well so the bank knows where the money needs to be sent to.
The sending bank transmits a message, via a secure system (such as SWIFT or Fedwire), to the receiving bank, requesting that it effect payment according to the instructions given.
The message also includes settlement instructions. The actual transfer is not instantaneous: funds may take several hours or even days to move from the sender's account to the receiver's account.
Either the banks involved must hold a reciprocal account with each other, or the payment must be sent to a bank with such an account, a correspondent bank, for further benefit to the ultimate recip
The person wishing to do a transfer (or someone who he has appointed and empowered financially to act on his behalf) goes to the bank and gives the bank the order to transfer a certain amount of money. IBAN and BIC code are given as well so the bank knows where the money needs to be sent to.
The sending bank transmits a message, via a secure system (such as SWIFT or Fedwire), to the receiving bank, requesting that it effect payment according to the instructions given.
The message also includes settlement instructions. The actual transfer is not instantaneous: funds may take several hours or even days to move from the sender's account to the receiver's account.
Either the banks involved must hold a reciprocal account with each other, or the payment must be sent to a bank with such an account, a correspondent bank, for further benefit to the ultimate recip
Short history of online Banking
The precursor for the modern home online banking services were the distance banking services over electronic media from the early '80s. The term online became popular in the late '80s and referred to the use of a terminal, keyboard and TV (or monitor) to access the banking system using a phone line. ‘Home banking’ can also refer to the use of a numeric keypad to send tones down a phone line with instructions to the bank. Online services started in New York in 1981 when four of the city’s major banks (Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Chemical and Manufacturers Hanover) offered home banking services[1] using the videotex system. Because of the commercial failure of videotex these banking services never became popular except in France where the use of videotex (Minitel) was subsidised by the telecom provider and the UK, where the Prestel system was used.
The UK’s first home online banking services[2] was set up by the Nottingham Building Society (NBS) in 1983 ("History of the Nottingham". Retrieved on 2007-12-14.). The system used was based on the UK's Prestel system and used a computer, such as the BBC Micro, or keyboard (Tandata Td1400) connected to the telephone system and television set. The system (known as 'Homelink') allowed on-line viewing of statements, bank transfers and bill payments. In order to make bank transfers and bill payments, a written instruction giving details of the intended recipient had to be sent to the NBS who set the details up on the Homelink system. Typical recipients were gas, electricity and telephone companies and accounts with other banks. Details of payments to be made were input into the NBS system by the account holder via Prestel. A cheque was then sent by NBS to the payee and an advice giving details of the payment was sent to the account holder. BACS was later used to transfer the payment directly.
The UK’s first home online banking services[2] was set up by the Nottingham Building Society (NBS) in 1983 ("History of the Nottingham". Retrieved on 2007-12-14.). The system used was based on the UK's Prestel system and used a computer, such as the BBC Micro, or keyboard (Tandata Td1400) connected to the telephone system and television set. The system (known as 'Homelink') allowed on-line viewing of statements, bank transfers and bill payments. In order to make bank transfers and bill payments, a written instruction giving details of the intended recipient had to be sent to the NBS who set the details up on the Homelink system. Typical recipients were gas, electricity and telephone companies and accounts with other banks. Details of payments to be made were input into the NBS system by the account holder via Prestel. A cheque was then sent by NBS to the payee and an advice giving details of the payment was sent to the account holder. BACS was later used to transfer the payment directly.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
BANK SECRECY ACT
The Bank Secrecy Act was designed to help identify the source, volume and movement of currency and other monetary instruments transported into or out of the U.S. or deposited in financial institutions.
BANK WIRE
An electronic payment system for the transfer of money between banks. The payments are conducted on the Federal Reserve System's federal wire (Fed Wire) network. Also known as a wire transf
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