Bank of America joined the field last month with its Accolades card, issued on the American Express network.
It left responsible community banks to compete with non-banks and other non-bank institutions in an unlevel playing field, often irresponsible and often unregulated competitors.
It includes dangerous carve outs for payday lenders, debt collectors, and other financial services operations, and hurts the ability of community and local banks to compete by creating an unlevel playing field with their non-bank competitors.
Since the creation of Bank Mandiri, the consultants have had a field day, and they are boasting of the progress they have made.
The Commission said it would submit proposed regulation by the middle of the year on inter-bank fees aimed at ensuring a level playing field for all card providers.
The balloon which crashed was one of at least nine which took off in a field north of Luxor, on the west bank of the Nile, at dawn on Tuesday.
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Of the 40 million money transfers from the U.S. to Mexico each year, the four biggest banks in the field--Citibank, Wells Fargo, Harris Bank and Bank of America--handled just 1.2 million.
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.
While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
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The group moved on to a field in Beausale, near Kenilworth, just before the May Day Bank Holiday.
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The 13 families moved on to a field in Beausale, near Kenilworth, just before the May Day Bank Holiday last year.
Ex-Im Bank financing has been used in recent years largely to level a global playing field made uneven by the market-distorting practices of other nations, and yet it has been subjected to much more intense criticism by free-enterprise proponents in Washington than the quasi-socialist practices of European governments subsidizing Airbus.
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These competitive ball field warriors are especially prone to sales pitches with more allure than a bank CD or balanced portfolio.
Grameen Bank has been a source of ideas and models for the many institutions in the field of micro-credit that have sprung up around the world.
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Lessons include in-school visits from local entrepreneurs and field trips to Junior Achievement centers where kids learn financial lessons such as opening a bank account.
These funding mechanisms will take into consideration the work done in this field so far by others and will align its functioning with other initiatives by the World Bank and EC, providing parallel co-financing and further enhancing the innovation potential of the programme.
Because the company is a leader in its field of water and waste-water treatment in China, it has enjoyed access to bank financing in the past, and has even been able to raise capital in the United States by selling its shares on NASDAQ.
With help from the World Bank, Hajee co-founded Nuru Energy and in 2009 the company started testing its products in the field.
That in turn means that the competitive playing field will be tilted even more to the disadvantage of the likes of the Co-Operative Bank and the Coventry, Skipton and Newcastle building societies than was already the case.
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