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The Key To Intermittent Fasting
By Craig Ballantyne | 07/16/2013 | 2
Hey, this is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining.com and here with another Turbulence Training podcast. This time we have a special guest on who's a nutrition expert and he is I guess you could say like the half-trainer or the half-nutritionist of many of the Turbulence Training transformation contest winners because they've used his program and it's Brad Pilon from Eat. Stop. Eat. So Brad, welcome to the call.
Brad: Thanks for having me, buddy.
Craig: So your program has been used by so many people that have won the contest, so many of them, I mean not just people getting third place but people winning the contest and the people getting second place in the same contest. But now you're telling us it's gotten even better so what version of Eat. Stop .Eat. are you on now?
Brad: I'm on version 6. So Eat. Stop. Eat. was released in early 2007 and I think I've just been about almost yearly updates of it. This is a fairly large one we've done this time, incorporating a whole lot of information to really kind of bring to the forefront some of the things people have been asking about when it comes to fasting because it's gotten so popular over the recent year or two.
Craig: So what would those things be?
Brad: For most part what people have been really asking about is the gender differences in fasting. Is fasting the same for men as it is for women? So I really delved into the research on short periods of fasting and women or men, and really tried to look and see if there in fact were gender differences. There were some things that definitely had to be addressed in the book so that's been included in.
I've also gone over the idea of a longer fast. There are a lot of questions. People like to go to extremes so when I say a 24-hour fast once or twice a week, naturally people start asking about a 36-hour fast, a 48-hour fast, can you do the 24-hour fast back to back, etc. So I really explained the research behind longer fasts. While a 72-hour fast doesn't sound that long, I mean it's still considered short-term fasting, I think what I had to remind people in this copy of Eat. Stop. Eat. was that that's actually three times longer than I recommend.
So while it still sort of sounds less than a week, a lot of things happen when you fast for triple the length that I was originally suggesting. So I covered off the concept of the longer fast and just kind of explained to people why I really don't advocate them nor do I use them in Eat. Stop. Eat.
And the last thing I covered and it was probably a really important oversight in the first couple editions of Eat. Stop. Eat. was I actually finally explained why Eat. Stop. Eat. was set up the way it was. So Eat. Stop. Eat. was one or two 24-hour fasts per week and those fasts are about between two days. I finally explained why for me it makes the most sense for the most people to do their fast and then have anywhere from two to six days of normal everyday eating. So that's all now included in this version of Eat. Stop. Eat.
Craig: Interesting. We're going to get into some various fasting lengths and talk about that because there have been a lot of different ones out now but it just happens that Ramadan, I believe, has started right now and it is summertime for the first time that I've ever known it to be so it's very difficult for a lot of people to be doing that. Is there anything that you've learned about Ramadan fasting because that tends to be one of the most popular versions of fasting that is studied in the scientific literature, anything that you just want to share with people that are interesting facts
Brad: Yeah, well Ramadan's very interesting because it's a month straight of fasting during the daylight hours. In areas like in Canada where I live, the days and nights can vary considerable depending on the season. So right now, being in the summer, you're looking at upwards of 16 to 18 hours of straight fasting and the interesting thing about Ramadan is we're not just talking about not eating. These are dry fasts so not only do you not get any food, you don't get water, you don't get coffee, no pop, no beer, no nothing. You're abstaining for the entire day.
So Ramadan poses a very interesting thing for us to study because what it gives us is an amazing history of health and safety data for fasting but you have to be careful with how you interpret Ramadan fasting because in fact there is no fluid intake, and not only is there not fluid intake but during the month of Ramadan what you do find is that people largely increase the amount of food they eat at night. People practicing Ramadan would tend to stay up into the evening hours to eat and now, especially during summer, they will get up early to eat before the fast begins.
But it's very interesting because you get lots of very good data from the practice of Ramadan but you always have to remember to apply that data properly since the most of us who are fasting for health and aesthetic reasons aren't doing it through dry fasts.
We're still taking in lots of water, most of it black coffee or other things, during our fasts. So while they're very similar, we shouldn't get caught in thinking they're the exact same thing. I've tried a dry fast and it's not something I would do on purpose, for me.
Craig: Right and there's actually a few people in the NFL that now do Ramadan fasting as well. I remember they had something on the Pittsburgh Stealer player a couple of years ago. Do you remember that at all?
Brad: Yeah, absolutely. We've got NFL players, NHL players. We've got people who practice Ramadan in just about every major sport and they work around it. The conservation of fluid is something they kind of have to be careful of so for hot games, etc., but in terms of performance, it's not like you'd watch a game and be like oh, it's Ramadan, that's why he's playing so poorly.
You don't notice and that's one of the exciting things, that you have to research on Ramadan and not only athletes, football players, and hockey players, but you also have data from power athletes and that's really the data for us, as people who enjoy the lifting of heavy things and putting them back down, to realize that during periods of fasting they do maintain their strength. It's especially important because again they're doing a dry fast, right? We're still well-hydrated.
Craig: Yeah, very interesting stuff.
Right now, I'm playing around with this 16-8 ones and it's very easy if you eat dinner a couple of hours before bed and then you sleep your regular seven or eight hours, then you get up, and then you only have a few hours to go after that, and especially with green tea it makes the day go by, those final few hours go by quite easily. That's kind of what the article in Men's Journal that you were quoted in. A lot of the guys were practicing that in that article as well but yours is 1 x 24 so compare how that is against seven days a week of 16-8. Do people find that it's easier to use your program? Is there any data on differences in results of people who've tried 16-8 and then come back to your program?
Brad: If you compare the programs, they're very similar. In terms of total time fasting with let's say 2 x 24 as the more extreme version of what I practice, if you include the overnight fast of a typical person being around eight or ten hours, the total time spent fasting per week is less with my program but not by much. We're talking about 80% of what you'd be fasting for 16-8.
16-8 sounds pretty scary to a lot of people. What you've touched on, which is perfect, is really when done properly, it's just an extension of the night-time fast, right? You stop eating a little bit earlier before you go to bed and then when you wake up, you sort of take a brief pause and don't start eating right away and bang, you're only about two or three hours away from the full 16. So it tends to be pretty easy to do.
What we found is that depending on a couple of factors, which one people tend to gravitate towards. If you're a person who needs a lot of flexibility, then the benefit of a 1 x 24 or 2 x 24, so my method, is that you have flexibility when you choose to fast since it's not every day.
It's once or twice a week. So if I was planning on fasting tonight but a big dinner came up, I don't have to freak out. I can just postpone my fast or do it earlier, depending on which is more convenient for me. Whereas the 16-8 is a bit more regimented. You're trying to accomplish a fast every single day.
Now they both have the advantage of that feeling of a small win. With dieting, a lot of people describe traditional dieting as kind of the slow inevitable march to a failure. You're eventually going to slip up. It's sort of negatively reinforces bad habits when you do slip up. You kind of think, "I'm just not strong enough for this." Both 16-8 and the 1 x 24 or 2 x 24 fasting allow you to have that small win, that kind of like
"Yeah! Nailed it. I can do this and I'm done," the difference being really in the amount of regiment.
So if you're a person who needs flexibility, then the 1 x 24 tends to suit you better than the 16-8 but if you're a person who just thrives on regiment, then obviously the 16-8 is better for you.
You tend to run into a little bit of issues with people who have started to have difficulty with the fasts. In that case, they're having difficulty with the length of fasting then perhaps 16-8 is better. But if they're having difficulty with the frequency of fasting and need a couple of days of just normal eating in between, they go 1 x 24. The key with intermittent fasting is to make it work for you. What you're looking for is a type of fasting that just feels right and when it starts to not feel right, you change it.
So doing a 1 x 24, a 2 x 24, let's say you were doing a dinner to dinner fast, if it's working quite, no, this doesn't feel right, you don't really look forward to your fasting and more it's become kind of a chore, you switch to lunch to lunch and maybe everything changes and it's better. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe what you want to do is switch to a shorter fast with 16 x 8 and do it daily or maybe five times a week with the weekend off, that sort of thing.
Fasting is an incredibly flexible, incredibly useful tool but it is merely a tool, which means you're allowed to manipulate it and make it fit your life and balance into the type of things that you're into with your life. So if you need more recovery time, 1 x 24. If you're working along at 16 x 8 and everything feels great, you stay. You just keep track of it all.
We'll end it here for today. I hope you can join us tomorrow for part 2 or click here to listen to the call.
Looking forward to your success,
Craig Ballantyne, CTT
Certified Turbulence Trainer
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As the FTX indictments unfold, Pawel Kuskowski, CEO of Gatenox, talks to top US and UK criminal lawyers Anthony Metzer KC, Eric Lewis, Adam Kaufmann and Philip Kazantzis about recovering assets from the FTX scandal.
Comparisons are made to the Madoff ponzi scheme and a discussion follows onto Sam Bankman-Fried's extradition and sentencing.
Adam Kaufmann is a former prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney's office where he was the Chief of the Investigation Division. Eric Lewis is currently the chair of an international litigation boutique where both he and Adam carry out complex financial fraud and asset tracing. They are both based in New York and Washington. Philip is a barrister based in England working just outside London. He is a sole practitioner and has great expertise in dealing with fraud trials and confiscation proceedings in the UK. Anthony is a senior barrister and a King's Counsel has expertise in extradition and asset recovery.
The discussion started off by hypothetically estimating what can be recovered in the assets lost, defrauded or stolen in the process for coming to FTX. Answering the question as to what one can do if their funds are part of the FTX broadcast, Eric says that it is a complicated situation because it looks like at least eight billion dollars of customer funds were funnelled out of FTX into Alameda and that they have made some very large and risky bets which may be lost. Nonetheless, the primary question arising at this standpoint is what priority do the customers have under their contracts? These are personal assets and not deposits in a bank which would mean they are treated as a debt. If someone lost money as an FTX customer, they could at least file lawsuits (either class actions or seek first priority for deposits).
However, unless they can find counterparties or complicit parties who can be sued for participating in the fraud, no one can tell how much is going to be recovered. This is very different from the Madoff situation where most of the money was traceable.
Eric thinks there are going to be very large losses because funds were transferred to other entities like Alameda. Since there is a disconnect between where the funds were put and who ultimately benefited from it, the funds are going to be difficult to recover.
When Adam shared his thoughts on recoveries of these funds in the US, he mentioned that people are ultimately going to be very disappointed that the total pool of recoverable funds won't be enough. The media has focused on incredible houses and real estate properties which may get hundreds of millions of dollars in recovery in different jurisdictions but considering billions were lost, a recovery of 100-150 million dollars is really not going to go very far. Compared to Madoff, he states that in that case, a lot of money was clawed back from the feeder funds.
FTX-Alameda trading had an exposure to a risky crypto investment with Terra, so when Terra crashed, Alameda was exposed. Adam also says that to cover it up, they dipped into FTX funds to try to prop up terra. That money is probably gone and unfortunately equivalent to billions of dollars of account holder money that is most likely not recoverable.
On the possibilities of going after some of the entities involved, the problem with going down this route is that if there was insider or internal fraud, then these entities may simply say, 'How can you come after me? There's all of this internal fraud'.
In the UK, crypto would be treated as property but because FTX was not a registered company with the Financial Conduct Authority, they sit outside regulation. If FTX was regulated, there would be a limited amount of cover from the Financial Conduct Authority. The difficulty though is if there are no assets or a very limited amount of assets, there is nothing left to freeze.
Would it therefore be a good idea to throw more good money after bad one?
Anthony adds that these are difficult assets to trace and the traditional way in England and Wales is to seize assets. Money or stocks which can be traced can be sought to be restrained and recovered, but the difficulty with cryptocurrency is that it has an ethereal quality which is very hard to trace, however, not impossible.
However, as with the HSBC scandal, the massive resources expanded by the United States in relation to a very large fraud is probably not something that would be matched in the United Kingdom.
The discussion concluded with the speakers agreeing that more interesting things are yet to come out from the FTX case. However, what needs to be understood is who put the money and supported the entire project.
Watch the whole discussion: FTX asset recovery process from a legal perspective
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Argentina is the fourth largest Spanish-speaking country (after Mexico, Spain & Colombia), but the dialect is slightly different from the Spanish you will hear in other parts of Central or South America. At the beginning of the 20th century, Argentina received a wave of Italian immigrants that greatly influenced the language. As they settled, a new tongue evolved. When traveling through Argentina, it would be helpful to learn to speak like the porteños – the "people of the harbor".
The most easily identifiable sound is the "sh." A porteño, instead of pronouncing words with "ll" as "y", pronounces them with a "sh" sound. Pollo (chicken) would be "posho" instead of "poyoh".
Another important difference is the usage of "vos" instead of "tu" (you) when speaking. Known as "voseo", Argentina is one of the few Spanish-speaking countries that use it. Other countries that use it, are neighboring Uruguay, El Salvador, and Honduras.
While traveling through Argentina, you will also come across their special slang, called "lunfardo". It originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the lower class segments of Buenos Aires. It contains elements of not only Spanish and Italian but also Portuguese and other languages. A common way to speak in "lunfardo" is to reverse the syllables of a certain word. For example, café, becomes "feca" and tango becomes "gotan".
Other popular words that are not in reverse are:
guita – money
mina – young woman, girl (comes from the italian femmina)
mango – an Argentine peso
While Spanish is the dominant language in Argentina, there are many other languages spoken in Argentina. They include Italian (second most spoken language in Argentina), Quechua (mainly spoken by Bolivian immigrants who settled in Northern Argentina) and Guaraní (mainly spoken in the province of Corrientes).
Today, there is a lot of access to language learning. If you are a carrier of a smartphone, we recommend downloading the Duolingo app. Duolingo offers lessons in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and more. If you don't have a smartphone with access to language apps, we recommend taking a "Spanish for Travelers" class at your local community center, or with a software program such as Rosetta Stone. Many travel guidebooks include brief language sections. Study up before you go to familiarize yourself with basic Spanish. With some studying and a little bit of practice, you may be able to show off your language skills with the locals!
In most hotels and tourist destinations, the staff will be English-speaking and all of our guides are English-speaking.
A few phrases for meat lovers in Argentina:
bien jugoso – rare
jugoso – medium-rare
a punto – medium
bien cocida – well done


At the end of last week we got the list of eighteen films that are eligible for consideration in the Best Animated Film category at next year's Oscars. Many films on the list were expected entries, but there were a couple unknowns. One of those is Ignacio Ferreras' film Wrinkles, which adapts the graphic novel of the same name by Paco Rosa.


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I grew up in Menomonie, WI where I first fell in love with exercise and weight lifting in high school. I was never a very big kid, so for me it was a way to better myself for sports. After seeing the results at a young age, I was absolutely hooked. My passion for sports (in particular football) took me to UW-Eau Claire to pursue a degree in Kinesiology. My eyes were again opened to a whole new way of exercising when I played football for UW-EC, and put on close to 50 pounds in a year (...I think mostly muscle... some of it was the cafeteria). When I was done playing, I realized weighing what I did was not the right fit for me, and that is when I was first truly introduced to high intensity interval training (HIIT) training. I lost about 40 pounds, and got in the best shape of my life. That was the moment I knew I wanted to train people, so you could see results, so you could have success, so you could find out so much about yourselves just like I did.
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Terrängen runt Nuevo Mexiquito är huvudsakligen en högslätt. Nuevo Mexiquito ligger uppe på en höjd. Den högsta punkten i närheten är La Colmena,  meter över havet,  km söder om Nuevo Mexiquito. Runt Nuevo Mexiquito är det tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är San Francisco del Rincón,  km nordväst om Nuevo Mexiquito. I omgivningarna runt Nuevo Mexiquito växer huvudsakligen savannskog.

Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är maj, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juli, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är april, med  mm nederbörd.

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Today we're going to talk about protecting your home from subterranean termites and a little about community responsibility.
There are several species of termites in Southern California that property owners and managers need to watch out for. Drywood termites are the most common in our area, with subterranean termites right behind them.
What are subterranean termites? Do they pose a threat to SoCal property owners and managers?
Yes they do! In fact subterranean termites are in plague proportions in central and southern parts of California. Older urban areas of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Reno, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Fernando Valley and San Diego are particularly vulnerable.
When a termite infestation takes hold of a property, it's like a ticking bomb. At any moment the devastation can become apparent. To make matters worse, adjacent properties can be affected as well.
Left unchecked, that initial infestation will spread to the surrounding structures in a relentless fashion as the colony of termites matures and swarms. What affects one structure will, in time, potentially affect all surrounding structures.
So defend your home against subterranean termites. Keep alert for signs of infestation. Don't put off termite treatments, but prioritize protecting your home. After the initial treatment, make sure you maintain a yearly service contract. And talk to your neighbors about the need for them to protect their homes as well.
Of course the best action you can take is to get a free termite inspection from a professional termite control company.


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If you are a Friends of Skagit Beaches member or volunteer, you've probably heard of the Trail Tales project. Just in case you haven't, I suggest you take a walk along the Tommy Thompson trail along the waterfront in Anacortes and you will quickly come across the interpretive signs that bring the history of the waterfront to life.
I have been fascinated by how this project came to fruition. How did the idea behind the Trail Tale signs become a tangible and valued tourist attraction? Betty Carteret was happy to sit down with me and share how this project came about.
Trail Tales is the story of how one person envisioned an idea and created a tangible legacy for her community. I want to share this story because too often we just don't know what to do with great ideas. How did Betty, the woman with the vision of what Trail Tales could be, go from dreamer to doer?
Point 1: Coming from different parts of the world, we can bring fresh ideas to a new community.
Betty came to Anacortes in 2005. She grew up near Williamsburg, VA, a world-renowned hub of historical interpretation for the American Revolution. She says that living in a community that celebrated its history and made it the center of their local economy taught her how engaging and educational interpretive programs could be. Williamsburg, one of many east coast colonial historic sites, preserves the history of the town while educating visitors from around the world about life lived over 200 years ago. Whatever your own ancestry is, it is impossible to wander through Williamsburg and the surrounding historic sites without having a deeper connection to the past. In Anacortes, Betty could see beyond the marinas, boatyards, and businesses to the history of the community. She saw a story worth sharing with local residents and visitors to the area, a way to combine enjoyment of the shoreline with a learning experience.
Point 2: You never know where an idea may lead you.
Another piece of Betty's experiences also fed into the idea behind Trail Tales. In researching interpretive programs, she came across the United Nations Voices project. This multimedia project used billboards, voices, print and cellular phones to engage the public in a campaign to better understand the plight of underrepresented communities. Betty saw how different mediums could be used to engage people with learning. This informed her decision to create both a physical interpretive experience on the shoreline with a website for those who prefer and online experience.
Betty on the trail
Point 3: Ideas are like seeds – they need roots before they sprout.
Friends of Skagit Beaches arose out of a need for members of the Skagit County Beach Watchers program to raise funds to support their volunteer work. Betty was part of that founding process and served as the first president of the board for this small non-profit. Friends had limited funds but a mission that drew many like-minded individuals to the table. As Friends grew and expanded its presence in Skagit County, they looked for impactful projects to support.
For Betty, the shorelines of Skagit County were, in her words, not seen – at least not with the historical perspective she brought from her old hometown. She saw the legacy of the past for both the First Nation tribes and colonizing settlers fading even as the Department of Ecology (Ecology) completed a major waterfront clean-up that redefined the waterfront of Anacortes.
These seemingly unrelated ideas didn't come together until Betty attended an informational meeting for the Washington Department of Ecology Public Participation Grant program in 2010. What would it take, she wondered, to create a series of interpretive signs that engaged the public in the stories of the waterfront? Betty explored the idea with Ecology and they loved the idea. It was innovative and was seen by Ecology as a positive way to engage the public in understanding and participating in the decision process of their important shoreline cleanup program called the Anacortes Baywide Cleanup. Ecology had never received a grant application that proposed to use interpretive methods, including signs, walks, website, and films, as a way to promote public participation.
Point 4: Collaboration can make the original idea stronger.
Betty continued to develop this idea within the parameters of the grant with Ecology. She knew that it was going to be important to Ecology for the public to not only see the history of the waterfront but also understand why the clean-up had been necessary. The story of the clean-up, a cautionary tale of how historic industries had no idea that their working practices were harming the natural environment, showed how we can clean up the toxic by-products, restore natural processes and habitats along the shoreline, and rejuvenate the marine environment. The City of Anacortes Parks & Recreation Department and Museum, the Samish Indian Nation, and Port of Anacortes all came forward as partners to help make the Trail Tales interpretive sign project a reality.
At the dedication of the second phase of signage around the Cap Sante Marina and Seafarers Park, Arianne Fernandez, Ecology's project manager for the Anacortes Baywide Cleanup, said that in her opinion, the Trail Tales project and waterfront signage was the best investment the Public Participation Grant Program had ever made. She further stated that "[the public] is going to forget why [Ecology] spent 10s of millions of dollars on this community . . . and look how beautiful it is now (Seafarers Park). You're going to forget in a couple of years and this (interpretive signs) doesn't allow you to forget why it was important. For us (Ecology) it's unique and it's critical . . . and we're bringing you in to show other projects how it's done."
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Point 5: Seeds of ideas can grow into amazing experiences.
Former Friends' Board member and Anacortes City Council member, Erica Pickett, said "Betty thinks big. The rest of us would have asked for a couple of thousand dollars and put up one sign but she went for an entire interpretive trail with dozens of signs, interpretive walks, and a website." The Trail Tales grant has spurred Friends to a whole new level of engagement and activity in our community and left a legacy along the shoreline that will benefit the community for decades to come.
The City of Anacortes just granted the Trail Tales project a lodging tax fund grant to reprint the map brochure and repair damaged signs, acknowledging the positive impact the project has had on tourism. The Trail Tales brochure is often the first one reached for at the visitor center and allows visitors to explore Anacortes and engage in a historical journey that is still being played out in the city today. There are links embedded in the sign brochure that take the viewer to a website filled with videos and information that bring the waterfront to life.
I've walked the Tommy Thompson trail many times and I've enjoyed reading about Fidalgo Bay – looking at what there is today while also studying the pictures from a not so distant past. Betty is right when she says that when an Anacortes resident understands the history of this waterfront it will make that person's experience living here richer. As someone who has only been here for the past few years, I think the experience reaches farther afield. Whether you have come from another place in this world or lived here your whole life; whether your ancestors were the settlers or indigenous tribes – the interpretive signs depict a universal cycle of development that some will celebrate and others will mourn. Either way, it is important to grapple with that. This is the power of interpretive education – all those experiences get to co-exist along with the ways in which certain agencies and non-profits, individuals and groups, have been working to restore the fundamental health of the nearshore environment.
Fidalgo Bay - in a not so distant past...
Visit the Trail Tales website or next time you're in town, stop in at the Visitors' Center and pick up a Trail Tales map to begin your exploration of the Anacortes shoreline.
What ideas have you been carrying around with you and what's one small thing you can do to help them find fertile soil? Drop us a line, maybe we can help!
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Top 10 Foreign Banks in India
We have covered a lot on Indian banks and their features in our different posts. This time we bring for you an exclusive list of Top 10 Foreign Banks in India having a strong presence in the Indian territory.
A lot of things changed with the advent of liberalisation policies that carried their ripple effect throughout the decade, shaping the economy of India as we know today. While it was certainly the first push towards private businesses, it also happened to be the first time India opened its arms to foreign investment. Today, let's look at few International banks that have established firm roots in India.
Top Foreign Banks in India
A pattern that you'll notice here, is that most of these banks were formed and established after Dr.Manmohan Singh's LPG policies, which is no accident given that there was a level of hostility not only towards foreign businesses, but toward any privately owned businesses.
So, we followed a particular form of a mixed economy with communism carrying a higher weight. Also, order no way indicative of ranking.
1. Citi Bank
Famous for its tagline 'Citi never Sleeps', this happens to be not only one of the India's oldest banks, but happens to be globally one of the oldest functional banks. Established in New Yok in the year 1812, Citi expanded globally in the late 19th century and expanded to India in the year 1902, its first headquarters being Kolkata given the fact that it was at that time the centre of British stronghold.
However, it did not reserve its clientele, and currently has over 40 branches across multiple cities and over 700 ATMs.
2. Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Chartered Bank happens to be a British company, which is currently the largest international bank in terms of volumes of branches and ATMs. Currently, it has over a 100 branches across 40+ cities, and the bank employs hundreds of thousands of employees all over the country, the current count being somewhere around 87000 employees. The bank made its way to India in the year 1969.
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The bank's headquarters are in London, and in terms of services, it is very comprehensive along with providing the basic CASA services.
3. HSBC Bank
Talking of British banks, it is impossible to miss out on HSBC, another British bank established in Great Britain in 1865. Currently, the bank's global headquarters happen to be in London, while in India it operates in more than 50 branches and serves a clientele of more than 1 lakh customers. Its Indian headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra and services include retail as well commercial banking.
Moreover, HSBC happens to be the bank which opened the first ATM in India in the year 1987.
4. Deustche Bank
Deustche Bank is a German entity, established in the year 1980 in Germany. Also, we don't know who needs this, but its pronounced 'doy-cheh'. In terms of branches, Deustche is actually a bit smaller considering its 18 branches.
However, working in those 18 branches are more than a 100000 people serving more than half a million customers.
5. Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland, spoiler alert, is a bank from Scotland. It is, however, a prominent name in the Indian financial circles and has been operating in India for over 90 years, its first branch being opened in the year 1921.
Currently, the bank has over 10 branches providing services like foreign exchange, corporate banking, insurance, etc. It is but one of the most trusted banks globally, and is said to have over 700 branches.
6. DBS Bank
The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd, or DBS is a Singaporean multinational entity that serves millions of customers globally. The bank entered Indian markets for political reasons more than financial one. However, it has still managed to be one of the reliant banks in India.
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Its Indian headquarters are in Maharashtra, and the bank operates through 12 branches in India. Services include loans, credit cards, and being an international bank, a ton of NRI services.
7. Barclays Bank
Barclay's bank is another British bank, also one of the largest bank around the globe. It serves more than 5 million customers throughout the world, and the British bank has 7 branches in India. It is a well known fact among financial circles that it happens to be one of the top banks in terms of NRI services.
It is the largest and one of the oldest banks in the world, established in 1690 in England.
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8. Bank of America
Bank of America, established in America has its headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America. This is also one of the political strategy banks, which is to say it was mainly expanded in India to have smoother, cordial international relationship with, you guessed it, America.
The bank was functional in the year 1964, and as of today only has 5 branches in India. However, it is still globally one of the largest banks, serving 4.9 million customers.
9. Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait
Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait was established in the year 1971 in the kingdom of Bahrain and state of Kuwait (it's really not that complicated). The shareholders consist of people and the government of Bahrain. It has about 16 branches in Bahrain, and about 3-4 branches in India, and it isn't really that big of a bank in terms of volume.
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However, it is proclaimed that what it lacks in volume it makes up in quality of service, and provides services like credit cards, loans, fixed deposits, etc.
10. Doha Bank
Doha Bank is actually a much more new entrant to the Indian financial markets, being established only in 2014. However, the bank has made its name and made it well within the last 6 years, and is considered to be a major league player. It has three branches as of now, in Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi but has plans for expansion in the current decade.
Internationally, the bank operates in a ton of Asian and European countries.
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Foreign Banks in India
This was our list of leading foreign banks making a stronghold in the banking industry. Do you have any other foreign bank name to add here? Feel free to share in the comments.
With all this talk of international investment in India, it is important to say the least to be aware of the financial entities serving them.
Also learn, How to invest in international market from India?
So, what do you feel about foreign banks making a presence in the Indian market? Moreover, ever since becoming a global market place, knowledge has become the key in the financial sector. And, talking about banks and financial institutions seems to be even more interesting.
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Mr Subodh Singh
Very very top no. one bank is HSBC India. I am an Indian customer and impressed with its services.
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