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U.S. Banker October 2006 Lee Conrad	Consumer Snag: How to Make Account Openings Easier Most banks are not sufficiently integrated with health plans to make the process of creating an health savings account a convenient experience for customers. But that can change.
U.S. Banker October 2006 Lee Conrad	New Industry Index Aims to Quantify The Progress of Corporate Payments Companies still make most of their payments with paper checks, but new VICOR-commissioned research suggests a major change is afoot. Restless bankers are more than ready.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2006 Rich Duprey	Advance America's Keystone Kops Pennsylvania sues the nation's largest payday lender.
Registered Rep. September 27, 2006 Angela Covo	Women on Wall Street Still Fighting Discrimination Less than 10 years after they settled the infamous "boom-boom room" case, Smith Barney is being sued for discrimination again. The new lawsuit doesn't include sexual-harassment charges, but does address the economics of gender discrimination.
OCC Bulletin September 25, 2006	Proposed Revisions to (1) Risk- Based Capital Rule Implementing the new Basel Capital Accord and (2) Market Risk Rule This bulletin briefly summarizes two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. The first NPR would implement new risk-based capital requirements for large or internationally active U.S. banking organizations. The second NPR proposes changes to the current risk-based capital charge for market risk.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Group Hug at Lazard The boutique investment bank announced management changes intended to foster greater cooperation between its two major European offices in Paris and London. Investors, take note.
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2006 McDougall & Malykhina	Financial Firms Are Struggling to Manage, Archive and Monitor the Exponentially Growing Volume of Corporate E-mail Many financial firms have been bitten by e-mail compliance woes. Learn how to get control of e-mail before you become the next victim of the e-mail beast.
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Jack Be Nimble CIOs and CTOs at larger financial organizations often wish that they could implement enterprisewide projects in a few months, rather than - because of their sheer size - over many years. With easier-to-manage business units, smaller peers can implement newer technologies much more quickly.
Wall Street & Technology September 20, 2006 Tim Clark	A Hard Act to Follow Amid dwindling commissions and a resurgence in the use of soft dollars, commission recapture is becoming harder to quantify for financial services firms.
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Tim Clark	The Quiet Market Explosion While most of the industry has been focusing on exotic investment products and emerging markets, the securities lending market has boomed into a $16 trillion business. But with rapid growth comes substantial risk.
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