爱尔兰银行

若已有很大内容译为中文，可迳自移除本模板。

爱尔兰银行官方网站网址:http://www.boi.ie/

爱尔兰银行简介

爱尔兰银行是爱尔兰领先的金融机构之一，资本胜过2,000百万爱尔兰镑。在1998年底，它预见到一个迅速更改的环境能助推银行重建它的业务流程和服务，而信息技术将形成其要害原因。

银行的信息技术策略得到了一个将来的验证的方法，基于Sybase的客户/服务器的连结处理方案，而且运用PowerBuilder作为客户端GUI中的开发工具。

爱尔兰银行的核心是其零售部，它包含支持职员以内，在这个部门中有胜过7,000个员工为它遍及爱尔兰和英国的客户供应一定规模的金融服务。它全部的银行业、外币兑换和信用卡服务均为通过350个分行来供应的。

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 pmier banking organisation in Ireland, today Bank of Ireland is number two to Allied Irish Banks（爱尔兰联合银行）. 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（英格兰银行）. 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 impssive, Bank of Ireland building in Dublin. This building hosted the Irish Parliament before the Act of Union 1800.Today visitors can still view the impssive 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