One defendant, 32-year-old Ronald Uy, a Vice President and Branch Manager for JPMorgan Chase, allegedly provided advice on how to structure transactions in order to avoid bank reporting requirements.

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"Every developer is dusting off his old plans and getting ready to put them back into the planning system again, " says Sean Traverse-Healy, the vice-chairman of the eastern branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).

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"That's a very sensible step at the moment, " said Roderick Jones, a vice president of Concentric Solutions and a former special branch officer.

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Rob Aulebach, a senior vice president in Bank of America's consumer unit, says customers just aren't coming to the branch as often as they used to.

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