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Abu Dhabi: During the late 1960s and 1970s, people in Abu Dhabi kept money in their cellars and would take bundles of banknotes neatly tied up to the banks once every few months, recalls an expatriate who retired from his job at a bank recently after four decades in service.
"They didn't count currency notes or coins themselves but trusted the cashier to credit the money to their accounts," says V.P. George, from Kerala, India, who joined Standard Chartered Bank in Abu Dhabi on August 27, 1968, as a clerk... [Read full story]
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