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Fast Company December 2008 Jennifer Vilaga	Mercy Corps: The Bank of Banks The Oregon-based antipoverty group Mercy Corps bought a struggling Balinese bank and reopened it as a wholesale outfit exclusively serving microfinance institutions.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Anthony Malakian	Fall Mergers Have Yet To Yield Big Campaigns Since September three mammoth institutions, Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual and Wachovia, were purchased by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, respectively; it will be up to the banks' marketing teams to make sense of these developments for consumers.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Glen Fest	Workout Analytics Taken to Loan Level Banks and servicers are broadening portfolio analytics to include more loan-level details and more predictive analytics around consumer behavior.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Anthony Malakian	Another Bank's Unhappy Clients Are Prime Prospects Competition for deposits is only going to get fiercer. Given this reality, it's imperative banks perfect ways to snare consumers when they have the chance - and a great opportunity is when a person dissatisfied with their current bank visits another bank's Web site.
U.S. Banker December 2008	Hank's Group Think The Troubled Asset Relief Program was supposed to purchase toxic securities from banks to stabilize their finances. But in short order, given the difficulty valuing those assets, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and company switched gears and chose to take equity stakes in big banks.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Anthony Malakian	Golden Pacific De Novo Has Statewide Aspirations This might not seem like the most opportune time to open a de novo. But Kirk Dowdell, the CEO of Golden Pacific Bancorp, isn't planning to open just one bank, he envisions a whole fleet of community banks scattered throughout California.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Anthony Malakian	FirstBank Highlights Its Sec***ty It's not often a bank with $8 billion in deposits focuses an ad campaign on its online and mobile security features, but with its young clientele that's exactly what FirstBank is doing.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Michael Sisk	Will Retail Deposits Be Uncapped? The law capping national retail deposits at 10 percent is likely to be overturned this year, allowing the nation's big banks to grow even bigger through M&A.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Michael Sisk	First Niagara Articulates Its TARP Tactics With $9 billion in assets and 114 branches in the Buffalo, NY area, First Niagara Bank falls into that grey area between community bank and super-regional, exactly the size some say will be squeezed by the financial crisis and the government's intervention through the Trouble Asset Relief Program.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Anthony Malakian	Death, Taxes, and Opportunity In a Down Market At the end of every calendar year, tax, investment and succession planning are topics of intense interest for wealth management teams and their high-net-worth clients. This year, they have a particularly long list of topics to discuss.
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