The private banking community seems wholly unconcerned with the prohibitions against self-dealing by investment fiduciaries.

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Banking giant Barclays had an "aggressive" and "self-serving" culture under its former boss, the new chief executive has told MPs.

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Greed, self-indulgence, and even treason are of course not new to the international banking and multi-national corporate worlds.

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Merrill Edge provides access to investment guidance in person at banking centers or through a call center, as well as an online self-directed investing platform.

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She said the exposure of the "sometimes self-serving relationships" between great pillars of society such as police, politics, media and banking served as a reminder that "with great power comes responsibility".

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The bill that has just passed the Senate Banking Committee, sponsored by Paul Sarbanes, the committee's Democratic chairman, would also end self-regulation for accountants.

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"While it's important to treat your internship as a job interview, it's also important to make it a learning experience coupled with self-exploration, " says Holly Stroupe Vestal, a human resources consultant for Bank of America's Banking Center Channel, who was hired full time after her own internship.

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