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Crédit National c. 1919 – Paris, FR – July 2010

Feb 10th, 2013
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45 Rue St. Dominique © Frank H. Jump

Credit National – Pour faciliter la reparation des dommages causes par la guerre.
National Credit – To facilitate the repair of damage caused by the war.

The national credit was a French bank created by special law on October 10, 1919  at the nexus of the private sphere and the sphere of influence of the French State involved in the payment of war reparations and financing of small and medium enterprises. It has always been in the private sector and its employees have never had the status of civil servants, despite employment contracts and organization benefitting the public. – Wikipedia (FR)

The BFCE (French Foreign Trade Bank) founded Natixis in the spirit of privatization with a merger in 2006 of Natexis and Ixis. Apparently I caught this sign after the Natixis sign was taken down.  May 2008 © Google Maps

DC Bank Planks with Gaia Son – World Bank Group – International Monetary Fund

Jul 25th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

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Walking through our nation’s capitol last night after midnight, we took the opportunity to see the stars. Opposite both of these powerful and pervasive banking institutions, homeless people slept on benches in sidewalk parks.

New Paltz Savings Bank – Main Street – USA

Jun 9th, 2012
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Another local bank gets gobbled up by the larger predator fish.

Featured Fade – Sterling National Bank – Fading Ad Underneath – Nick Hirshon

Apr 5th, 2012
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Queens Blvd & 71st © Nick Hirshon

I’m learning from you to snap these signs during their potentially brief time of exposure. Crews recently tore down a row of small businesses along Queens Boulevard between 71st Road and 71st Drive. They exposed the blue ad on the bottom of the photograph. Looks like there’s something beneath it, too, but I couldn’t see it from the street. – Nick Hirshon

Prudential Savings Bank – Flatbush Avenue – Kings Highway – Flatlands, Brooklyn

Feb 2nd, 2012
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Kings Highway - East of Flatbush Avenue © Frank H. Jump

Kings Highway - Previously posted on Mar 10th, 2009 © Frank H. Jump

Flatbush Avenue - South of Kings Highway - © Frank H. Jump

Flatbush Avenue - South of Kings Highway - © Frank H. Jump

Bank of A. Levy, Inc. – Oxnard, CA

Nov 4th, 2011
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Residuals (?) Over Four Million Dollars © Frank H. Jump

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Third National Bank & Trust Co. – Scranton, PA

Sep 15th, 2011
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Abacus Federal Savings Bank – Chinatown, NYC

Sep 3rd, 2011
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Abacus Federal Savings Bank (國寶銀行) is a Chinese American bank in the United States founded in December, 1984 by a group of business leaders from the Chinese community in New York City. The founders’ original purpose was to provide banking services to immigrants and local residents of lower Manhattan. As the Chinese immigrant population grew in the 1980s and 1990s, the Bank retained its original mission, but expanded its size and scope. It now has 6 branches covering New York , New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Besides the traditional banking services, it also offers insurance and securities through its subsidiaries. Abacus is federally chartered. Its mortgage and other services extend to all states in the United States. – Wikipedia

Northeastern National Bank Overpass Has Been Painted Black – William Scranton former Governor of PA

Sep 1st, 2011
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William Warren Scranton was Governor of PA from 1963 – 1967. Although Scranton was originally from Madison, Connecticut, it was by chance he was born there at his family’s vacation home.  Much of  Scranton’s political and business careers centered in  Scranton, Pennsylvania for which his ancestors were the founders and patriarchs. Scranton was president of Northeastern National Bank & Trust Company as well as serving on the boards of directors of  high profile American corporations such as A&P, IBM, The New York Times, Pan American Airways, and the H.J. Heinz Company.Scranton also had affiliation with the Trilateral Commission and was asked to chair the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest after the Kent State shootings in 1970.¹

Sender Jarmulowsky – Banker – Canal Street, NYC

Aug 7th, 2011
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Between 1880 and 1910, approximately 1.1 million Jews fled from oppression in Eastern Europe and sought refuge in New York City’s Lower East Side. Amongst them was Alexander “Sender” Jarmulowsky, an entrepreneur from the Russian province of Lomza. Jarmulowsky was ordained as a rabbi, but after marrying Rachel Markels, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, he moved to Hamburg and established a trans-Atlantic shipping firm. In the early 1870s, Jarmulowsky immigrated to New York City, where he founded S Jarmulowsky’s Bank in the Lower East Side. Before long, Sender was known as the “East Side J.P. Morgan.”

A well-respected Talmudic scholar, Sender was an important patron for the Jewish Orthodox community in particular. He was one of the principal investors in the Eldridge Street Synagogue, for which he served as the first president. He also helped to organize the Association of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, and the Zichron Ephraim Synagogue.

However, Jarmulowsky was no modern Medici. He was both accountable and accessible to his customers. In this pre-regulatory period, small businessmen and low-income laborers were nervous about handing over their meager savings. Indeed Jarmulowsky experienced bank runs in 1886, 1890, 1893 and 1901, and responded by paying one hundred cents on the dollar to each anxious accountholder. He was famously honest and fiscally conservative, and known to grant loans based on personality as much as credit worthiness, a somewhat unconventional, albeit successful, strategy. Equally unusual was his decision to make his wife, Rachel, a partner in the bank. – PLACE MATTERS

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