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Banking A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

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United States Code In the law of the United States, the Code of Laws of the United States of America (variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States, United States Code, U.S. Code, U.S.C., or USC) is the official compilation and codification of the ...

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Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after ...

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Taxation A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, o ...

* : Crimes And Offenses * : Foreign Banking * : Export-Import Bank of the United States * : Farm Credit Administration * : Agricultural Marketing * : Regional Agricultural Credit Corporations * : Adjustment and Cancellation of Farm Loans * : National Agricultural Credit Corporations * : Local Agricultural-Credit Corporations, Livestock-Loan Companies and Like Organizations; Loans to Individuals to Aid in Formation or to Increase Capital Stock * :

Federal Home Loan Banks The Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks, or FHLBank System) are 11 U.S. government-sponsored banks that provide liquidity to the members of financial institutions to support housing finance and community investment. Overview The FHLBank System wa ...

* : Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation * : Savings Associations * : National Housing * : Federal Credit Unions * : Federal Loan Agency * :

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is one of two agencies that supply deposit insurance to depositors in American depository institutions, the other being the National Credit Union Administration, which regulates and insures cr ...

* : Bank Holding Companies * : Bank Service Companies * : Security Measures for Banks and Savings Associations * : Credit Control * : Financial Recordkeeping * : Tying Arrangements * : Farm Credit System * : Federal Financing Bank * : National Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers * : Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler's Checks * : Real Estate Settlement Procedures * : Emergency Mortgage Relief * : Home Mortgage Disclosure * :

Community Reinvestment The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, ''et seq.'') is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to he ...

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National Consumer Cooperative Bank The National Cooperative Bank is a congressionally chartered cooperative bank in the United States created by the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act of 1978 (Pub.L. 95-351). National Cooperative offers banking products and services to cooperat ...

* : Foreign Bank Participation in Domestic Markets * : Depository institution Management Interlocks * : Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council * : Appraisal Subcommittee of Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council * : Right to Financial Privacy * : Depository Institutions Deregulation and Financial Regulation Simplification * : Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank * : Multifamily Mortgage Foreclosure * : Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure * : Alternative Mortgage Transactions2 * : International Lending Supervision * : Expedited Funds Availability * : Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership * : Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud Crimes * : Truth in Savings * : Payment System Risk Reduction * :

Government Sponsored Enterprises A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a government entity which is established or nationalised by the ''national government'' or ''provincial government'' by an executive order or an act of legislation in order to earn profit for the governme ...

* : Community Development Banking * : Financial Institutions Regulatory Improvement * : Homeowners Protection

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Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

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