Banks
The bank that shares a name with an area known for technology companies.
What is Silicon Valley Bank?
This benchmark interest rate was manipulated.
What is LIBOR?
In the UK, this is the amount protected under fscs.
What is £85,000?
In 1970 he publsihed a theory still taught in business schools today.
Who is Eugene Francis Fama?
The name of an informal value transfer system that means transfer or trust in English.
What is Hawala?
Its German name is: Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft.
What is Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)?
This "Futures Exchange" collapsed in 2022.
What is FTX?
In the US, this is the amount protected by the FIDC.
What is $250,000?
He is a well known investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Who is Warren Edward Buffett?
He will feature on the reverse of the new King Charles III £50 notes.
Who is Alan Turing?
The Gaelic name of this former Glasgow bank is: Banca Dhail Chluaidh.
What is Clydesdale Bank?
He operated a Ponzi scheme since the early 1970 until 2008.
Who is Bernard Lawrence Madoff ?
This is the current Bank of England benchmark interest rate.
What is 4.5%?
as of 11 May 2023, updates at: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/the-interest-rate-bank-rate
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the Big Bang in 1986.
Who is Nigel Lawson?
Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (11 March 1932 – 3 April 2023)
A mobile phone-based money transfer service, payments and micro-financing service, launched in 2007 by Vodafone and Safaricom, the largest mobile network operator in Kenya.
What is M-Pesa?
The first British bank in 150 years to fail due to a bank run.
What is Northern Rock?
Several high-profile companies in the UK have been fined by the Financial Conduct Authority for the widespread mis-selling of this product.
What is Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)?
The percentage of Brits who have a digital-only bank account in 2023, compared to only 9% in 2019.
What is 24%?
Source: https://www.finder.com/uk/digital-banking-statistics
US politicians instrumental in Wall Street reform and after whom a signicficant Act of 2010 was named.
Who are Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT)?
This open-source software was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin.
What is Ethereum?
The bank featured in the 1999 film Rogue Trader.
What is Barings Bank?
Jaimie Dimon described it as a "tempest in a teacup".
What is the JPMorgan Whale scandal?
The percentage of total UK economic output that, in 2021, the £173.6 billion from the financial services sector contributed to the UK economy.
What is 8.3%?
He was appointed Chair of the FCA on 8 July 2022 and took up the post in January 2023.
Who is Ashley Alder?
The year The Royal Bank of Scotland ceased regular production of £1 notes.
What is 2001?