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unusual facts about Ministry of Finance



Bank Simpanan Nasional

BSN was incorporated on 1 December 1974 under the Ministry of Finance at that time, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

Indian Railway Accounts Service

At the Apex level, the Financial Commissioner for Railways represents the Ministry of Finance on the Railway Board and also functions ex-officio as Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Railways in financial matters.

Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2

The pioneer LED street lights installation program was a collaboration between the Ministry of Works and Ministry of Finance, as well as the Public Works Department as the implementing agency and Philips Malaysia as the contractor.

Rafidain Bank

This project will cover basic retail banking and trade finance but advanced banking functions such as ATM networks, Card Management and internet banking will be considered by the Ministry of Finance in later stages.

Richard Werner

He was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan; and he was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Monetary and Fiscal Studies at the Ministry of Finance.

Suchart Chaovisith

He transferred to the Ministry of Finance in 1972, where he held a number of positions.

Svein Gjedrem

He graduated in political economy from the University of Oslo in 1975, worked as a consultant in the Central Bank of Norway from 1975–1979 and in the Ministry of Finance from 1979 to 1998.


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Abdul W. Haqiqi

Upon completing his studies in the United States, Haqiqi served in Afghan government positions including senior adviser to Mohammad Daoud Khan's Vice President and assumed the role of the President of State-Owned Enterprises in the Ministry of Finance.

Alexander Nedoshivin

Aleksandr Mixaylovich Nedoshivin (March 14, 1868, Kazan - ?) was 27 years a tax specialist at the Ministry of Finance in Imperial Russia, later a lawyer for 10 years.

Augustin Frédéric Kodock

Following independence in 1960, he became Deputy Director of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance in 1961; he was then posted in Douala for about six months as Director of External Economic Relations and subsequently was Director of Economic Orientation.

Bank of Israel

The Bank of Israel was founded on August 24, 1954, when the Knesset passed the Bank of Israel Act, which ceded the currency issuing and regulatory functions of the Ministry of Finance to the newly formed Bank.

Ben Mezrich

In 2007, Mezrich published Rigged (ISBN 0-06-125272-7) which recounts a largely fictional account of the formation of what would eventually become the Dubai Mercantile Exchange by two young visionaries, one in the New York Mercantile Exchange and the other in the Dubai Ministry of Finance.

Bsous

Habib Abou Sakr - ex-Director General - Ministry of Finance - Lebanon

Chișinău Botanical Garden

In 2005, the botanical garden received 700,000 lei from the Moldovan Ministry of Finance and was able to change its heating system, reducing heating costs

Civil service of Japan

In the early postwar period, the scarcity of capital made it possible for the Ministry of Finance and MITI to exert considerable influence over the economy through control of the banking system (see Monetary and fiscal policy).

Cornelius Mwalwanda

He is the current Deputy Minister of Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in the Cabinet of Malawi under Minister Ken Lipenga.

Eastern Region MRT Line

On 11 July 2012, a speech by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Transport, at Downtown Line 3 (DTL3) Tunelling Works Ceremony, announced that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) are starting architectural and engineering consultancy studies for the Eastern Region Line, which will eventually connect to the Thomson Line.

Economic survey of India

A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performance on major development programs, and highlights the policy initiatives of the government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term.

Estanislao Rodríguez-Ponga

In 2000 was appointed as Director General de Tributos in the Ministry of Finance, whose Ministry was Cristóbal Montoro.

Finance Secretary

The Ministry of Finance is composed of five departments: the Department of Economic Affairs, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Expenditure, the Department of Financial Services and Department of Disinvestment.

Financial Guard

Guarda Fiscal, a former Portuguese special military force, under the authority of the Ministry of Finance

Gulf International Bank

Three remaining stakes of 0.438% are each held by Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, the Ministry of Finance of Oman and the Emirates Investment Authority.

Hubert Detremmerie

He served as a member of the Advisory Board to the Belgian Ministry of Finance for Financial Institutions and Markets, the Council of Labor, the King Baudouin Foundation, and the Belgian National Counsel for the Cooperation Among Labor, Business and Government.

Jan O. Karlsson

Following the election in 1982 when the Social Democrats returned to power he was made state secretary at the Ministry of Finance.

Jihad Azour

Azour's involvement in government began in 1999 as project director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Project at the Ministry of Finance, and as senior advisor to the Minister of Finance with Georges Corm (until October 2000) and Fuad Siniora (October 2000 – October 2004).

Jochen Wermuth

Yevgeny Yasin, ex-Minister of Economics wrote in his article in a book about Russian economic reforms that Jochen Wermuth, head of the Economic Expert Group under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, was the first to warn of a potential default of the Russian Government in a memo in the fall of 1996 which he forwarded to Chernomyrdin.

Mongolian Revolution of 1921

The leaders of the East Urga group were Soliin Danzan (1885–1924), an official in the Ministry of Finance, and Dansrabilegiin Dogsom (1884–1939), an official in the Ministry of the Army.

Peter McLachlan

In 1973, McLachlan moved to Lisburn, to work as a civil servant at the Ministry of Finance.

Rwanda Stock Exchange

The RSE is operated under the jurisdiction of Rwanda's Capital Market Authority (CMA), previously known as Capital Markets Advisory Council (CMAC), which in turn reports to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning(MINECOFIN).

Shankar Prasad Sharma

Formerly a member of the government of Nepal, Dr. Sharma held numerous positions such as Deputy Chairman at the National Planning Commission in Nepal (1999–2006), Chief Advisor in Ministry of Finance, Alternate Governor of Nepal for the International Monetary Fund and Senior Economist in Institute of South East Asian Studies (1986–1993).

The Westin Paris – Vendôme

It occupied a full block, the former premises of the Ministry of Finance, (burned in 1871) which had been designed by François-Hippolyte Destailleur in 1817, following the Bourbon Restoration.

Turnour Prize

Notable winners of the Turnour Prize include Deshamanya C.A. Coorey, former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury, Sir Thomas De Sampayo, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and Professor Osmund Jayaratne former President of the Colombo Campus, University of Sri Lanka.

Ulrike Schaede

She has lived in Japan for a total of more than six years, has held a position at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance and METI, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Yoshimi Watanabe

Watanabe opposed the appointment of Haruhiko Kuroda as president of the Bank of Japan, saying that he would prefer to see a president come from a background other than the Ministry of Finance; he instead supported Heizo Takenaka for the position.