Bank & Financial

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U.S. Banker January 2002 Robert A. Bennett	Put the Reins on Passion Lenders and investors were so caught up in Enron's philosophy that they were blind to reality...
U.S. Banker January 2002	Beware the Syndicators Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., which syndicated billions of dollars of loans to Enron, should have known the truth about Enron’'s condition, and should not have had to depend on outside accountants or on the various rating agencies...
U.S. Banker January 2002	A Win for the Fed Even the Fed can make mistakes, as many Greenspan critics are only too happy to point out. But some mistakes can be happy ones -- and that's the good news from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston...
U.S. Banker January 2002	BNP Getting Serious Baudouin Prot, director and chief operating officer of BNP Paribas, is breaking into a gallop...
U.S. Banker January 2002	Banks Look Smart -- by Contrast Sometimes banks don't look so dumb -- at least compared with some hot-shot stocks, ranging from Enron to the once high-flying dot-com companies. A litmus test may be how much companies pay for naming rights to sports arenas...
U.S. Banker January 2002	Self-Cleansing Imagine what it must be like working in subprime lending, dealing all the time with financially desperate people. Well, Bank of America is well on its way toward washing its hands of this dirty business, reducing its risk and raising its ethical standards...
U.S. Banker January 2002 Mark Bruno	IBM Moving Along with Identrus The business-to-business billing and payments industry isn't small change. Mark Greene, general manager of IBM's global banking, is well aware of this, and knows that IBM stands to make a pretty penny by getting the B2B payments business going...
U.S. Banker January 2002 Mark Bruno	Bank of Montreal jumps at chance for U.S. purchase When Credit Suisse First Boston came along looking to hawk CSFBdirect, its online brokerage, Toronto-based Bank of Montreal was ready to start making offers...
U.S. Banker January 2002 Mark Bruno	Successful Net Banker Gives Up the Reins It's very unusual when a CEO admits that he may no longer be the right man for the job, especially in banking. But D.R. Grimes, CEO of NetBank, says he will be stepping down after it completes its merger with Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group...
OCC Bulletin January 4, 2002	Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Interim Guidance on Compliance with the USA PATRIOT Act...
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