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2QUESTION 1

Which company’s ticker symbol on the NYSE is “C”?

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3ANSWER 1

CITIBANK

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4QUESTION 2

On March 18, 1852, in New York City, two persons and others signed articles of association for a joint stock company to do a banking and express business in distant California. Rushing for gold and silver in the West, overland by pony and stagecoach, coming through for miners, merchants, farmers and ranchers, building on the frontier, offering “Ocean-to-Ocean” service by 1888, X. grew with the nation and is part of American History. Identify x.

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5ANSWER 2

Wells fargo

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6QUESTION 3

Economic historians usually attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929. This day is known as……..

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7ANSWER 3

Black tuesday

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8QUESTION 4

Name the first Indian woman CEO of a Foreign Bank.

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9ANSWER 4

Tarini VaidyaKBC Bank India & South Asia

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10QUESTION 5

identify

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11ANSWER 5

Rakesh jhunjhunwala

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12QUESTION 6

An IIM A pass out, she became a contender for the managing director and CEO's position. at ICICI Bank in 2009. She was up against the equally high profile and meritorious Chanda Kochhar - and Kochhar was eventually selected. She is now the MD and CEO of one of the major banks in India. Who is “she” and what is the name of the bank

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13ANSWER 6

Shikha Sharma

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14QUESTION 7

Born in Bhopal to a South indian family. He graduated from IIT Delhi with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He completed his pgdba at iim a in 1987. he received his phd at mit in 1991 for his thesis titled “essays on banking”. He recently acquired a very important post in the north block. Name the person.

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15ANSWER 7

Raghuram rajan

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16QUESTION 8

Who is known as the “orcale of omaha”?

And his famous quote is "Rule No.1: Never loss money, Rule No.2: Never forget the Rule

No.1"

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17ANSWER 8

Warren buffet

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18QUESTION 9

A Company has looked east and roped in General Motors veteran Karl Slym as its managing director, name the company.

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19ANSWER 9

Tata motors

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20QUESTION 10

Infosys recently announced about an acquisition of a consulting firm. Name the firm.

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21ANSWER 10

lodestone

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22QUESTION 1

There was an argument about CRR among two dignities. It was also in the news recently. Name the 2 person involved in the Argument.

QUESTION 11

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23ANSWER 11

Pratip Chaudhary and KC Chaoudhry

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24QUESTION 1

These two deutsche bank towers have a very crafty name. the two aspects of every financial transaction.Guesses please.

QUESTION 12

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25ANSWER 12

Debit & credit

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26QUESTION 1

A Company very recently have converted the warrants issued along with non-convertible debentures (NCDs) in August 2009 into equity shares, Name the Company.

QUESTION 13

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27ANSWER 13

HDFC

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28QUESTION 1

In India where is the Paper for the currency manufactured?

QUESTION 14

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29ANSWER 14

Security paper Mill at Hoshangabad, Madya Pradesh

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30QUESTION 1

Which is the only country having paper currency and have no coins and it introduced cheque only in 1997?

QUESTION 15

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31ANSWER 15

vietnam

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32QUESTION 1

What is an unusual service offered by Bank of Baroda at Tirupati?

QUESTION 16

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33ANSWER 16

Only bank in India to sell Prasada

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34QUESTION 1

This international organization of central banks fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks. It is responsible for framing the famous BASEL norms.

QUESTION 17

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35ANSWER 17

Bureau of international settlements (BIS)

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36QUESTION 1

This Indian company floated an issue of this controversial financial instrument in 2008 and collected a sum of around Rs 19000 cr till 2011. The company claims this issue was a private placement and not a public offer. Which company am I talking about and name the instrument.

QUESTION 18

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37ANSWER 18

Name : Sahara Instrument : ofcd

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38QUESTION 1

identify

QUESTION 19

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39ANSWER 19

Mohammad yunis

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40

The books, Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor, which is as "the greatest book on investing ever written", introduced the world to Mr. Market - the best investment analogy in history.The author of this book is the mentor of Warren Buffet. Name this person.

QUESTION 20

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41ANSWER 20

Benjamin graham

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42

The banking space has seen considerable growth through the ATMs, (approximately 87000 ATMs at present) but the same has been restricted principally to the urban/metro areas. Tier III to VI unbanked/under banked areas have not witnessed much ATM presence. RBI has decided to permit non-banks to set up, own and operate ATMs to accelerate the growth and penetration of ATMs in the country. What are such ATMs called ?

QUESTION 21

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43ANSWER 21

White label atm

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44

X was born on 29 July 1953, at Paneli Moti, Rajkot district, in a Gujarati Jain family. His early childhood was spent in Kandivali, Mumbai, where his father was a small-time businessman. Later, the family moved to Raipur, Chattisgarh. X studied in s.s kalibadi Higher Secondary School, in Raipur.He briefly worked for New India Assurance Company, until he decided to trade in the Stock Market of BSE and [NSE]. He went on to create one of the biggest scams in indian stock market history.

QUESTION 22

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45ANSWER 22

Harshad mehta

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46

What are fannie mae, ginnie mae and freddie mac?

QUESTION 23

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47ANSWER 23

Fannie mae - Federal National Mortgage Association

Freddie mac - Federal Home Loan Mortgage CorporationGinnie mae - Government

National Mortgage Association

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48

What are spiders diamonds Ishare?

QUESTION 24

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49ANSWER 24

Exchange traded funds (ETFS)S&p 500 – Spiders

Dow Jones industrial average dia – diamonds

Blackrock - ishare

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50

The Man Who Broke the Bank of England because of his US$1 billion in investment profits during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.

QUESTION 25

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51ANSWER 25

George soros

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52

Parent company of Standard & poors?

QUESTION 26

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53ANSWER 26

Mcgraw hills

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54

This bank came into existence because of a merger between Algemene Bank Nederland and Amsterdamsche and Rotterdamsche Bank.Name the bank.

QUESTION 27

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55ANSWER 27

ABN-AMRO

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56

Up – bullsDown – bears

No significant movement - ??

QUESTION 28

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57ANSWER 28

Chicken market

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Significance?

QUESTION 29

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59ANSWER 29

Occupy wall street

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60

It traces its history to the 1850s, when four Gujarati and one Parsi stockbroker would gather under banyan trees in front of Mumbai's Town Hall. The location of these meetings changed many times, as the number of brokers constantly increased. The group eventually moved to its current place in 1874 and in 1875 became an official organization known as 'The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association'. What?

QUESTION 30

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61ANSWER 30

Bombay stock exchange

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