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• the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries?
• the Gwangtonggwan in Seoul is the oldest continuously-operating bank building in Korea?
• the Madras Bank, India's oldest Western-style banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford, the Agent of Madras at the time?
• Stockholms Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's first private banks? (pictured is Alida Rossander, an early employee)?
• Lillian Too, renowned feng shui expert, was once chief executive officer of a bank, and has written over 80 books since her retirement?
• Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the privatization of the country's largest bank?
• Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
• Girdap, established in Ruse in 1881, was the first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria?
• IKB Deutsche Industriebank was the first European bank to announce substantial losses from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis?
• architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank?