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.
At present the two banking giants in Spain are the BSCH (Banco de Santander y Central Hispano), which resulted from the merger of the Santander, Central and Hispano banks, and the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria), which is again the product of two major banks including the originally state-owned Argentaria.