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CUA (company)
Great Southern Bank (formerly Credit Union Australia or CUA) is a customer-owned bank based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. As of 2013, it is the largest customer-owned financial institution in Australia. It offers banking and insurance services to 420,000 Australians. Overview Great Southern Bank is a mutual bank. It is Australia's largest customer-owned banking organisation with over 40 branches located around Australia, largely on the east coast. The contact centres are located in Sydney and Melbourne. It is also a member of the Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA), adhering to a Customer Owned Banking Code of Practice Great Southern Bank has two fully owned subsidiary companies – CUA Health Ltd (Health Insurance) and Credicorp Insurance ltd (consumer credit insurance). On 26 May 2021, it was announced that CUA Health Ltd would be sold to HBF. History The earliest precursor to Great Southern Bank was officially founded in 1946. It was created through the amalg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Credit Union
A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is a member-owned nonprofit organization, nonprofit financial cooperative. Credit unions generally provide services to members similar to retail banks, including deposit accounts, provision of Credit (finance), credit, and other financial services. In several African countries, credit unions are commonly referred to as SACCOs (Savings and Credit Co-Operative Societies). Worldwide, credit union systems vary significantly in their total assets and average institution asset size, ranging from volunteer operations with a handful of members to institutions with hundreds of thousands of members and assets worth billions of US dollars. In 2018, the number of members in credit unions worldwide was 274 million, with nearly 40 million members having been added since 2016. Leading up to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, commercial banks engaged in approximately five times more subprime lending relative t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutual Savings Bank
A mutual savings bank is a financial institution chartered by a central or regional government, without capital stock, owned by its members who subscribe to a common fund. From this fund, claims, loans, etc., are paid. Profits after deductions are shared among the members. The institution is intended to provide a safe place for individual members to save and to invest those savings in mortgages, loans, stocks, bonds and other securities and to share in any profits or losses that result. History The institution most frequently identified as the first modern savings bank was the " Savings and Friendly Society" organized in 1810 by Rev. Henry Duncan of the Ruthwell Presbyterian Church in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Duncan established a friendly society to create a cooperative depository institution in order to enable his poorest parishioners to hold savings accounts accruing interest for sickness and old-age. Another precursor of modern savings banks were the ideas of Friedrich Wilhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banks Established In 1946
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 banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways functioned as a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had their roots in the anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Banks In Oceania
This is a list of banks in Oceania Australia Central bank *Reserve Bank of Australia Major banks *ANZ Bank *Citibank Australia *Commonwealth Bank * HSBC Bank Australia *National Australia Bank *Suncorp *Westpac Local banks *BankSA * Bank of Melbourne * Bank of Queensland *Bankwest *Bendigo & Adelaide Bank *Community Bank * Elders Rural Bank *Macquarie Bank * ME Bank *St George Bank Defunct banks *State Bank of Victoria * State Bank of New South Wales *Advance Bank *Challenge Bank * Bank of Melbourne Fiji Central bank *Reserve Bank of Fiji Local banks *Bank of South Pacific *ANZ (Fiji) *HFC (Fiji) *Westpac (Fiji) *Bank of Baroda * BRED Bank (Fiji) New Zealand Central bank *Reserve Bank of New Zealand Local banks * ANZ Bank New Zealand *ASB Bank *Bank of New Zealand * Westpac New Zealand *Heartland Bank *Kiwibank *Rabobank New Zealand *SBS Bank * TSB Bank Foreign banks operating in New Zealand *Bank of Baroda *Bank of China *Bank of India *China Construction Bank *Citiban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
