While BNP Paribas, the leading French bank, the only foreign bank active in Iran, the nature of its activities in that country is sufficiently important to merit investor attention.
The Louisiana Bank is active as a correspondent for other banks.
Meantime, the NFL replaced Bank of America by signing up Barclaycard US as an issuer of its co-branded credit cards (Bank of America is still active with some individual NFL teams, and remains the offical bank of Major League Baseball).
The risk is that a large emerging markets central bank embarks on active selling of dollars into the market.
Considered by many a bank with real growth potential, the bank has been active in acquisitions over the last year as they have participated in a couple of deals with distressed banks using FDIC-assistance.
Food bank staff and volunteers established active dialogue and relationships with over 400 farms across the country.
Beijing-based Bank of China has become increasingly active as a lender to U.S. property developers since late 2009, joining scores of well-capitalized Chinese investors who have helped fuel a commercial real-estate recovery in U.S. cities.
The Journal's analysis found that Bank of America was among the most active banks in reducing its debt at reporting time.
The bank has about 1.5 million active accounts and offers a range of banking products to retail customers only, including credit cards, savings, personal loans, general insurance and travel money.
HSBC, the most active underwriter of "dim sum" bonds overall, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, for instance, have formed teams dedicated to developing their offshore yuan services in London.
She was active in developing micro-finance two decades before Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank shared the Nobel Peace prize for microcredit.
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Big banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo have begun offering free trades to active investors.
The Bundesbank downplayed the move and said it was not because the bank expects a worldwide crisis or because it wants to become more active in the gold market.
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Deal flow for the first part of last year made it one of the most active angel groups in the U.S. , according to David Bank of Impact.org in the Huffington Post.
In 1988 bank regulators from the richest countries agreed that the capital of internationally active banks should, with a few variations, amount to at least 8% of the value of their risky assets.
Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) on an active day trades 400 million shares.
It is impressive that only one Chinese bank can exceed that level so easily, within one year, without PR or active marketing in-branch.
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French banks, which were still very active in Vietnam, tended to be the recipients of the money, which flowed to the Bank of France.
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Whereas online brokers once fought to attract fidgety, active traders, today they are jostling to bring in long-term investors, who might bank, trade and invest under one roof.
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Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit said at a recent Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference that there were opportunities for the bank to pick up share in trade finance, where French banks have traditionally been active and are now pulling out.
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