愛爾蘭銀行

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1、 愛爾蘭銀行簡介

愛爾蘭銀行官方網站網址:http://www.boi.ie/

愛爾蘭銀行簡介

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　　愛爾蘭銀行是愛爾蘭領先的金融機構之一，資本超過2,000百萬愛爾蘭鎊。在1998年末，它預見到一個快速改變的環境能推動銀行重建它的業務流程和服務，而信息技術將成爲其要害因素。

　　銀行的信息技術策略獲得了一個未來的驗證的方法，基於Sybase的客戶/服務器的連結解決方案，並且使用PowerBuilder作爲客戶端GUI中的开發工具。

　　愛爾蘭銀行的核心是其零售部，它包括支持職員在內，在這個部門中有超過7,000個僱員爲它遍及愛爾蘭和英國的客戶提供一定範圍的金融服務。它全部的銀行業、外幣兌換和信用卡服務都是通過350個分行來提供的。

　　The Bank of Ireland (Irish: Banc na héireann), officially known as the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland is a commercial bank operation in Ireland, which is one of the ‘Big Four‘ in both parts of the island.

　　Historically the premier banking organisation in Ireland, today Bank of Ireland is number two to Allied Irish Banks（愛爾蘭聯合銀行）. The Bank occupies a unique position in Irish banking history. At the core of the modern-day group is the old Bank of Ireland, the ancient institution established by royal charter in 1783. Bank of Ireland is the oldest bank in Ireland. From the beginning, it was connected closely with the leading banking family in Dublin, the Huguenot La Touche family. A member of that family - David La Touche - was the first Governor.

　　The historic institution as well as being a commercial bank - a deposit-taker and a credit institution - was a Central Bank in embryo, much like the earlier established Bank of Scotland and Bank of England（英格蘭銀行）. Bank of Ireland operated the Exchequer Account and during the nineteenth century acted as something of a banker of last resort. Historically Bank of Ireland is a pillar of the Establishment, an Ascendancy institution. It has its historic peculiarities - such as the titles of the chairman of the board of directors (the Governor) and the title of the board itself (the Court of Directors).

　　The bank was formed by an Act of the Irish Parliament in 1782 to support public and commercial finances in Ireland. The headquarters of the bank until the 1970s was the impressive, Bank of Ireland building in Dublin. This building hosted the Irish Parliament before the Act of Union 1800.Today visitors can still view the impressive Irish House of Lords chamber within the building. The banks headquarters is now a modern building in Baggot Street, Dublin, but the Bank of Ireland in College Green remains a working branch. A little known fact is that when the headquarters was built, it caused the world price of copper to rise - such was the usage in the building.

　　In 1958, the Bank took over the Hibernian Bank Limited and in 1965 the National Bank of Ireland Limited, and rebranded them as Bank of Ireland.

　　Although the bank is headquartered in Dublin, it has operations throughout the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, particularly Northern Ireland, where it prints its own banknotes in Pounds Sterling. In Great Britain, the bank expanded largely through the takeover of the Bristol and West Building Society in 1996. It also provides financial services for the Post Office throughout the UK.

　　From the foundation of the Irish Free State until December 31, 1971, the Bank of Ireland was the banker of the Irish Government, but not the central bank. The central bank was only formed twenty years after the Irish Free State and is called the Central Bank of Ireland. In 1956 the Bank was authorised to operate the Prize Bond scheme, and continued to do so until 1989.

　　On 20 March 2005, Bank of Ireland announced 2,000 job cuts in a move to reduce its cost base, this coming despite profits in excess of