There have been a number of fatal dam breaks in the United Statest. 1977: The Kelly Barnes Dam, an old earthen dam in Georgia, gave way in the middle of the night. Internal erosion probably caused the failure. Thirty-nine people were killed at a small bible college below the dam.
The types of financial institutions include commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, brokerages, investment firms, management investment companies and non-bank financial institutions including credit unions, payday lenders and savings and loans institutions.
Insights Winter 2010 80 introduction Institutions that operate in the banking and thrift indus-tries typically own and operate various categories of com-mercial intangible assets. For purposes of this discussion, we will define the banking and thrift industries to include the following types of financial institutions: commercial