Visitors from the academic world come on a regular basis to discuss their latest work, to present surveys of what is happening on the research front or to directly collaborate with ECB staff as co-authors of research papers.
One of the key objectives of bank nationalization in 1969 and 1980 was to spread the banking habit through opening branches in hitherto un-banked areas. The post nationalisation decades witnessed rapid spread of bank branches in hitherto un-banked areas and banking has since increased in scale and complexity. 3.