Lincoln, who faces a primary runoff in June, inserted the proposal at the last minute earlier this year, catching many by surprise and unleashing a fury of bank industry lobbying.
Thousands of bank employees across the industry can only hope for such a gentle goodbye this year.
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Amid the bad publicity and a drought of bank lending, the industry's transaction volume fell by 95% from the peak in 2006 to the trough in 2010.
The weekend's unprecedented upheaval--culminating Sunday night in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America--bared the Achilles heel of the industry: Brokers finance their daily operations using funding that is apt to disappear quickly and with little warning.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the former chairman of Lazards Investment Bank, Ken Costa, said the finance industry had lost sight of the need to do good as well as make money.
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Some industry analysts believe Bank of America, Chase and Citigroup are considering buying Discover or starting rival payment networks.
The committee noted approvingly that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been pushing industry players to create a central clearinghouse for credit default swaps and other derivatives.
Carlos Gomes, an economist at the Bank of Nova Scotia, another Toronto bank, expects that the car industry's output will shrink by 1-2% this year, after surging by 6% in 2002.
One of the issues to be resolved by Sony in the course of its planning is whether it will enter the banking industry through establishment of a new bank or by taking over a failed bank.
John Campos, a former vice-chairman of a Utah bank, is the last individual accused of improperly facilitating payments for the online poker industry who remains scheduled to battle the government at trial in April.
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According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, that city's futures industry employs 151, 000 people, directly or indirectly, and is creating those jobs at a rate 50% faster than the Chicagoan average.
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Despite pressures on attendance and sponsorships in recent years, the sports industry can bank on the resiliency of television money and labor peace (the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball recently signed long term labor deals) to provide a steady backbone throughout the industry, Fitch thinks.
The goal is to separate the risky business of derivatives trading from the parts of a bank that take federally insured deposits and put an end to taxpayer bailouts of the financial industry.
About three-quarters of the industry is in government hands, with the listed but state-controlled State Bank of India commanding about a quarter of the market.
The success of Africa's telecom industry, said Mohsen Khalil, Director of Global ICT at the World Bank Group, had shown investors that in Africa they could "contribute to development and still make money".
The annual Bank of Scotland Agricultural Report found farmers who believe the industry to be prosperous or very prosperous fell to 11%.
"The outlook for activity remains favourable for the coming months, " a Bank of France spokesperson said, adding that the automotive industry remained a problem area.
Founded as a financial computer-services provider in 1988, ACS for the first few years focused on processing bank transactions, but the collapse of the Texas banking industry eliminated many of its customers.
The Confederation of British Industry's chief economic adviser chief economic adviser Kate Barker is to join the Bank of England experts responsible for setting interest rates.
As a result, the Confederation of British Industry, a big-business lobby, worries about underinvestment, and officials at the Bank of England grumble about firms' reluctance to lower hurdles.
Such an agreement would keep financial products and banks under the same regulator, a position supported by the Financial Services Roundtable, an industry group whose members include heavyweights like Bank of America, Citigroup and Nationwide.
While most of the financial activity that now takes place on smartphones involves people engaging in transactions with their bank, the credit-card industry has spent millions of dollars to issue new plastic with the contact-less chip that speeds the check-out process.
Mumbai is home to major financial institutions such as the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India, as well as Bollywood, the movie industry that produces around 1, 000 Hindi-language movies and musicals a year in Film City, a complex of studios, backlots and landscapes.
Christian Noyer, the governor of the Bank of France, echoed those concerns last week, warning that the tax risked "destroying entire segments of our financial industry" as well as having "highly counterproductive effects on government borrowing and the financing of the economy" if it wasn't designed carefully.
Example: A third of the bank's loans to Greece's shipping industry were nonperforming.
According to a research note released by Deutsche Bank last week, China should provide more than half of the industry's total gains over the next 10 years.
Industry lobby groups have been pressuring the Reserve Bank of India to cut monetary policy rates and are also pushing the government to speed up economic reforms to help improve business environment and boost growth.
While Deutsche Bank didn't disclose the terms of the share sale, industry officials said the deal's structure would likely involve a small number of big institutional money managers picking up the shares at a small discount to the stock's current trading price.
But they are also hoping that by working with the largest credit issuers, such as Citigroup, Chase Card Services, MBNA America, Bank of America and Capital One Financial, that a change in industry practices will have a trickle down effect to smaller lenders.
He is backed by a respected central-bank governor, Bodil Nyboe Andersen, and by the Confederation of Danish Industry.
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