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Bank Technology News December 2003 Holly Sraeel	Branches Are Back. Is This Banking's Big Break? Identity theft may be grabbing headlines, but most banks are heavily focused on branches, particularly in understanding what types of activities are conducted by customers while there.
FDIC FYI December 10, 2003 Steven Burton	A Portfolio Perspective for Evaluating the Adequacy of the Insurance Funds FDIC economists have teamed up with prominent members of the academic community to develop a state-of-the art approach to measure risks posed to the bank (BIF) and savings association (SAIF) insurance funds.
OCC Bulletin December 10, 2003	Burma Designated a Primary Money Laundering Concern Proposed rules imposing special measures against the Country of Burma and Myanmar Mayflower Bank and Asia Wealth Bank
Registered Rep. December 10, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Securities Revenues Fall in Third Quarter Securities firms showed profits of $3.0 billion in the third quarter of 2003, a 45 percent decline from the second quarter, according to the Securities Industry Association. A significant drop in trading revenue was responsible for the profit hit.
Registered Rep. December 9, 2003 John Churchill	Following the Money Trail It's a testament to the increasing complexity of the advisory business: Many advisors -- people whose very living depends on their ability to track the ebbs and flows of money -- are having trouble understanding whether they're being paid correctly by their own firms.
Registered Rep. December 9, 2003 Will Leitch	Raymond James Audits Itself In the wake of last week's news that regulators have recommended "enforcement action" against Raymond James Financial for failure to offer clients breakpoints, the Florida-based brokerage has called for an all-hands-on-deck audit of its mutual fund trading.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Suddenly, A Monster Wachovia Securities has gradually, then all of a sudden, emerged as a monster brokerage firm. But Wachovia management insists that its Richmond roots aren't the only difference between it and its New York-based rivals.
U.S. Banker December 2003 John Engen	An Investor's Kind of Guy M&T Bank chief Robert Wilmers' penchant for bank buys hints at his willingness to take risks. Yet it is his bank's disciplined execution and annual returns that have made billionaire Warren Buffett and other shrewd investors believers in Wilmers' block-and-tackle game.
FDIC FYI December 8, 2003	Estimating the Capital Impact of Basel II in the United States We use 19 years of financial data from all FDIC-insured commercial banks to develop a range of values for the key Basel II risk parameters that banks might be expected to use over time. This allows us to estimate average capital requirements under the A-IRB approach under a range of economic conditions.
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 Paula Dwyer	Breach Of Trust The mutual-fund scandal was a disaster waiting to happen. An inside look at how the industry manipulated Washington
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