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Registered Rep. January 27, 2004 John Churchill	New Rule Makes Clearing Your Record Harder Brokers can expect a new rule that will make removing customer complaints and disciplinary actions from their public records much more difficult.
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Laura Cohn	Brits Get Into The Swing Of Plastic Consumers are piling up debt. Will the credit-card binge bring a backlash?
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	New Micropayment Standard Gets a Boost The PayCircle consortium's Java-based standard completes its specification for mobile payments.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2004 Bill Mann	A Lesson in Supply and Demand A small merchant bank makes a classic case for producing only when winds are blowing your way.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2004 Bill Mann	Providian's Quality Control The credit card company finds deadbeat payers not so appealing these days.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2004 Seth Jayson	Circuit City Flees Financing The electronics retailer takes another step toward trimming down, selling its private-label credit card business to Bank One.
Registered Rep. January 20, 2004 David A. Gaffen	UBS Adds HNW Reps in San Fran, Atlanta UBS Securities, which has been one of the most aggressive recruiters of the last year or so in the retail brokerage business, continued its hiring efforts, recently bringing on two large producers from Goldman Sachs.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	eBay in Reverse While no one will ever label investing in certificates of deposits sexy, you can't blame Washington Mutual for trying. The bank is teaming up with eBay to auction off hundreds of six-month CDs through a new website.
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Gail Edmondson	The Milk Just Keeps On Spilling At Parmalat Evidence is emerging that many investment bankers in Italy, Germany, and London harbored doubts about Parmalat's numbers for years, suspicious of its superheated growth. Why did many big banks keep floating its debt?
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Frederik Balfour	Will China's Bank Bailout Do The Trick? Beijing is pumping new billions into state-owned giants, but it's unclear whether that will be followed by real reforms.
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