In the early 1900s, Maggie made a historical stride when she chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and became the first African American woman to open a bank in the United States and serve as ...

The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank Group today ...

It's true that the First National Bank was dominated by ... President James Madison authorized the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. Source: Federal Reserve of Philadelphia Foreign ...

But the Bank of the United States, like many of Hamilton's other ... Soon after he became the nation's first Treasury Secretary, he was already proposing a national equivalent.

The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the World Bank in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank today. As the only World Bank shareholder that retains veto ...