But for the last decade banks have been required to meet similar internal-control standards under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act.

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So as part of last August's Pension Protection Act it ordered the Internal Revenue Service to allow taxpayers to direct deposit some or all of their tax refunds into up to three accounts, including Individual Retirement Accounts.

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If the employee doesn't leap into action within a 60-day window and deposit that money into a new plan or IRA, the Internal Revenue Service will assess early-withdrawal penalties.

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He said president Obama was not talking of a full-scale break-up of the banks but wanted to "separate retail deposit-taking from large-scale proprietary trading, large internal hedge funds and large internal private equity funds and I agree with him".

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