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- ↑ @cnbvmx (7 February 2019). "#ComunicadoCNBV La CNBV autorizó el inicio de operaciones al Banco ING México🇲🇽. El sistema bancario mexicano…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ Carlos Marichal, "Banco de Londres y México" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996, vol. 1, p. 278.
