Bank & Financial

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BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Maria Bartiromo	Inside the Big Deal Between BlackRock and Barclays An interview with Barclays President Bob Diamond and BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Avinash D. Persaud	How to Save the Financial System Regulators Redistributing risk, rather than trying to eliminate it, is the key to strengthening the world's banks.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	E*TRADE Is Doing Better Than You Think The discount broker has a mixed May, and a plan to improve its finances.
Registered Rep. June 17, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	The Fiduciary Battle Continues, Now Under Federal Microscope Among other measures, the Obama administration proposed today that the Securities and Exchange Commission require that broker-dealers offering investment advice be held to the fiduciary standard rather than the suitability standard.
Bank Systems & Technology June 16, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Online Bill Pay Expected to Grow Through 2014 Forrester Research shows there is still room for growth in e-bill pay, but the battle will continue between biller director and aggregator models.
Registered Rep. June 15, 2009 Kristen French	Hedge Funds Bruised, But New Retail Products Abound So far this year, investors and advisors seem to have put the brakes on new hedge fund investments.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Morgan Housel	Credit Cards Are Dying Fast Some big banks are already logging credit card default rates well past what the Treasury's stress test assumed to be a worst-case scenario.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is the Fed the Next Citigroup? The Fed is undercapitalized in the way that Citigroup is undercapitalized, at least before it's magical transference of preferred to common shares.
Bank Systems & Technology June 16, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	PwC Purchases BearingPoint Commercial Services Practice The acquisition by PricewaterhouseCoopers of certain BearingPoint contracts in North America expands its reach into financial services.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Bank of America Is a Mess -- but Buy It Anyway? Or why bother? Bank of America is a huge company with a lot of unknowns, it's a very heavily followed stock, it has very opaque financials, and it has embattled leadership.
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