Anglo Irish Bank Corporation (Irish: Banc Angla-Éireannach) is a state-owned bank based in Ireland with its headquarters in Dublin. The company mainly deals in business and commercial banking, with the result that it has only a limited retail presence in the major Irish cities. It also has wealth management and treasury divisions. Anglo-Irish has operations in Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Isle of Man.

Bank of China Limited (BOC) often abbreviated as 中銀 or 中行) is one of the big four state-owned commercial banks of the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1912 by the Government of the Republic of China, to replace the Government Bank of Imperial China. It is the oldest bank in China. From its establishment until 1942, it issued banknotes on behalf of the Government of the Republic of China along with the "Big Four" banks of the period: the Central Bank of China, Farmers Bank of China and Bank of Communications. Although it initially functioned as the Chinese central bank, in 1948 the People's Bank of China replaced it in that role. Subsequently, BOC became a purely commercial bank.

Brewin Dolphin is one of the UK's largest independent private client investment managers. We have 41 offices across the UK and Channel Islands offering a wide range of financial services and we have over £23 billion under management. Our success is founded on our long track record of helping private clients, trusts, charities and pension funds to create and preserve wealth.

The bank was created in 1990 as a shell company within Merchant Bank (Ghana). In 1994 HFC Bank became a publicly traded company. In 1995 it became listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The stock of the bank is a component of the exchange's GSE All-Share Index. According to the bank's website, the bank issued the Ghana Stock Exchange's first-ever corporate bond, in 1996. HFC Bank provides mortgage financing, commercial banking and investment banking services.

Instinet Incorporated is a leading global financial services firm that operates the Instinet global agency brokerages and Chi-X® Global, which develops trading systems through subsidiaries around the world.

Grupo Santander is a banking group centered on Banco Santander, the largest bank in the Eurozone and one of the largest banks in the world (in terms of market capitalisation). It originated in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (LSE: RBS) is a British state owned banking and insurance holding company in which HM Treasury holds an 84% controlling share (economic interest; actual voting rights will not rise above 75% in order to retain stock listing). This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited. The group is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the world's largest company by assets.

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