Another morale boost: spouses are often invited to bank functions.

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Karsten Jonsen is a research fellows at IMD, and Nikolas Kinley is head of leadership, GRB Functions at Barclays Bank.

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In recent years, the treasury ministry has started to reclaim functions the central bank had taken on in the 1970s.

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Having started in desktop publishing, it now offers to replicate the functions of a bank's in-house library and its junior analysts.

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Still, he has laid out plans to revert Citi back to the "silo" model, which calls for the bank's operating units to run more autonomously while supporting functions, like legal and IT, become more centralized.

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To accommodate Saddleback's continual growth, Warren used 79 different facilities for functions in the church's first 15 years--schools, bank buildings, recreation centers, theaters, restaurants, large homes, even a 2, 300-seat tent.

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As more functions are made available on mobile phones, more people are signing up for bank accounts, said Muya.

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Mr Rau has now admitted taking at least 44 flights in the bank's plane, but they were all, he says, to do with bank or government business, though he sometimes went on to visit family or friends or to attend functions as deputy national chairman of the Social Democrats.

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