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Caja Vital
Caja (meaning "box" in Spanish) can refer to: * ''Caja'' or ''caixa'', a Savings bank (Spain), Spanish savings bank similar to a credit union * Caja project, a former Google project for reducing security risks in HTML, CSS and JavaScript * Caja del Rio, a mesa in New Mexico, USA * Caja vallenata, a drum similar to a tambora * Caja China, see Nochebuena * Caja (software), Caja, the official file manager for the MATE (software), MATE desktop environment People * Isidoro Caja de la Jara (died 1593), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop of Mondoñedo * Attilio Caja (born 1961), Italian professional basketball coach * Caja Heimann (1918–1988), Danish film actress * Jerome Caja (1958–1995), American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savings Bank (Spain)
In Spain, a savings bank ( es, caja de ahorros or informally just ''caja'', ca, caixa d'estalvis, gl, caixa de aforros, informally caixa, eu, aurrezki kutxa) is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposit account, deposits and granting loans. Spanish banks fall into two categories: Privately owned banks (''bancos'') and government owned banks (''cajas''—literally pay office, or pay desk). The original aim was to encourage thrift among the very poor, but they evolved to compete with and rival commercial banks. Over time, most cajas colluded with regional political establishments to create a self-serving system of unscrupulous financing for regional governments provided by politically stuffed savings banks' boards which, in turn, thrived in what has been defined as "a culture of greed, cronyism and political meddling". This system was exposed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. As a result, out of the 45 cajas in existence at the start of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
