Bank & Financial

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FDIC FYI February 13, 2002	The Twenty Five Largest Banking Companies: Taking Stock of 2001 Credit quality concerns at large banks took center stage in a year that saw the onset of recession, the September 11 attacks, the Argentine financial crisis and the bankruptcy of Enron, according to FDIC analyses released today...
Knowledge@Wharton	Speculate on This: What Motivates Investment Bankers? Investment bankers are in it for the money. This was the hardly startling conclusion of a recent survey by management professor Peter Cappelli and executive search firm Spencer Stuart...
FDIC FYI February 7, 2002	Subprime Mortgage Lending Faces the Test of a Slowing Economy Entry by FDIC-insured institutions into subprime lending as a targeted line of business was largely a phenomenon of the 1990s. These lending programs are now being tested by recession, in most cases for the first time...
OCC Bulletin February 5, 2002	Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering A proposed rule will affect correspondent accounts for foreign shell banks and recordkeeping and termination of correspondent accounts for foreign banks...
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave	Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives?
Salon.com February 4, 2002 Joseph Lamport	Wake up and smell the subterfuge What does it mean when Citigroup's ad campaign tells us to stop worrying about money? A trick!
U.S. Banker February 2002 Robert A. Bennett	Learning from Disaster Hibernia CEO J. Herbert Boydstun has made substantial progress in turning the $16.3 billion-asset bank around, and is becoming very unbanker-like in building what he would describe as a jungle sales culture...
U.S. Banker February 2002 John Hackett	Deposits Grow Despite Drop in Rates The stock market has driven depositors into the arms of banks, but will this love dissolve if the market comes back?
U.S. Banker February 2002 David Lo	Escape the Knife Bank marketers are spending as much -- or more -- than ever on retail ads despite an economy that's in the dumps...
U.S. Banker February 2002 Robert A. Bennett	Bank Trust Assets Defy Markets Despite the decline of stock markets in 2000, bank trust assets rose to a massive $19.2 trillion...
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