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			<title>Take to the Skies</title>
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<td colspan="2">In some exciting financial news, consumers will be able to collect lots of frequent flyer miles a wide range of credit card offerings now being made available. Spending money with airline credit cards is a great way of racking up frequent flyer miles.</td>
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<p>For seasoned travelers, having one of these cards is a must!</p>
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			<title>HSBC protects its online customers</title>
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<td colspan="2">In some exciting money news HSBC Bank Plc, a global leader in international finance and money management, has introduced enhanced security features on its online portal.</td>
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<div>This fabulous bank news means that HSBC has joined Santander, the Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest in offering online banking customers free copies of Trusteer's Rapport pass]]></description>
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			<title>007 Goes Green</title>
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<td style="text-align: left;" colspan="2" valign="top">In some exciting money news, the Calyon brand has found itself re-invented and re-energized lately.</td>
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<p align="left">In addition to a name change to Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, they are sporting the heavyweight celebrity pull of Sean Connery.This new brand ref]]></description>
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			<title>NCB Helping Families</title>
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<td style="text-align: left;" colspan="2" valign="top">American giant NCB Financial Group which consists of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank,</td>
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<p align="left">NCB, FSB and NCB Capital Impact has recently reported that it will be pouring some  $391 million into community development. This fantastic bank news has been welcomed by]]></description>
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			<title>LendingTree's New iPhone Application</title>
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<div>Money news doesn’t come much more exciting this with some exciting developments from LendingTree. In a move to provide an ever-increasing amount of technological innovation to its customers, Lending Tree has gone mobile.  <br /> Now customers can find all the latest bank news directly off their mobile phones. This is technology that provides customized, up-to-the-minute loan offers anonym]]></description>
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			<title>Money Magazine Starts to Tweet</title>
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<p>In some of the most exciting money news to come out of the hi-tech social media sector are reports that CNN Money Magazine is now on Twitter.Twitter is a free service that lets people stay in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to the one simple question: What's happening?CNNMoney.com is the world's leading business and finance website and the online home ]]></description>
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			<title>Get More From SallieMae</title>
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<p align="left">SallieMae is making headlines around the financial world with some exciting money news. It has been reported that they are now offering 1.25% APY with no monthly fees and no monthly minimums.They call it the Simple Way to Save. With this type of account comes a new era of online high-yield savings accounts by Sallie Mae. In terms of bank news this is the crème de la crèm]]></description>
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			<title>POPmoney Bursts Onto the Scene</title>
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<p>In some exciting new money news, POPmoney makes its debut as the new person-to-person (P2P) electronic payments service. It is offered by banks and it allows customers to easily send secure email and mobile payments to anyone.If your bank offers POPmoney, you can send and receive money directly through your online and mobile banking site. If your bank does not offer POPmoney, you can still deposit money sent to you dir]]></description>
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			<title>Under the Spotlight with BankFox</title>
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<p>BankFox.com provides a comparative assessment of major US banks. It is a bank news service that provides powerful tools for making quick and easy differentials between leading banks. What makes BankFox different?<br /> There are many sites for comparing bank products but most of them are focused on rates. Although they think rates are important, they also believe that there’s a lot more that customers need to know to]]></description>
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			<title>Visa Cares</title>
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<p>The gift of giving has long been something that Visa is proud of. Now the bank news from Visa is that donating is going to be even easier.Visa has heard the please for help from victims of tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters. Now all Visa clients will be able to donate to the charity that means the most to them.</p>
<p>And it’s really simple the way it works. Customers can use their existing Visa cards]]></description>
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			<title>Mint Brings Clarity</title>
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<p align="left">To many folks out there, the financial news world is an intimidating place.Besides for the risks inherent in investment decisions, oftentimes it’s the financial jargon that gives people pause. Terms like capital ratios, risk aversion and price to earnings ratios are a little daunting to the average person.</p>
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			<title>Visa Goes Mobile</title>
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<p align="left">In its efforts to become the best provider of credit card and debit card services, Visa.com has made a quantum leap into the future. The financial services giant has amped up its innovative efforts with the provision of Visa Mobile.</p>
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			<title>Maximum Data Protection</title>
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<p align="left">Bank news: There has been a steady rise in the instances of identity theft and fraud in recent years. As news of tightened bank security measures is implemented, criminals are using ever increasing levels of sophistication to outsmart the system. Examples of this are readily found in phishing, farming and black hat operations.</p>
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			<title>Fundtech.com - Global CASHPlus</title>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT">Funtech.com came into existence in 1993 and is a world leader in offering software services and products to financial institutions like <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/index.php">banks</a>.</p>
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			<title>MoneySupermarket.com on youtube</title>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT">Money Supermarket has made its cash bag lighter by fifteen million pounds for a Youtube video ad campaign featuring comedian Omid Djalili. It is well known how inimitable Omid Djalili is.</p>
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			<title>Sophisticated online Service by BOA</title>
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<p align="left">Bank of America is a leading global player in international banking and finance. With an asset value in excess of $2 trillion, their online banking services are worth checking. It always offers its clients a variety of online services including: checking, savings and CDs, credit cards, mortgages, refinancing, home equity, auto loans, insurance &amp; protection and IRAs, among others. The latest services which came into the sight are:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT">Federal Reserve is planning stress tests for all the big banks to calculate their soundness and tests to determine whether they are sound enough to raise their stock dividends or buy back shares or not.</p>
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<p align="left">Recently some of the big names in the <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/index.php">banking</a> sector were sued by the Massachusetts for supposedly conducting illegal foreclosures and misleading the homeowners. The big and reputed banks were JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc Wells Fargo &amp; Co. and Ally Financial Inc.</p>
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<div>Recently we came to know about some of the big names in the banking world were sued by the Massachusetts for supposedly conducting illegal foreclosures and misleading the homeowners. Now the US state attorneys-general has set themselves to attack the large US banks for allegedly illegal home seizures, creating further uncertainty for an industry longing for resolution of mortgage-related la]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT">Tens of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota might be forced to find another way to send money to relatives in their homeland after a bank that handles the majority of the community's wire transfers said it was halting the service amid fears some funds could go to terrorists. Sunrise Community <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/index.php">Banks</a> plans to close its accounts with several Somali money transfer businesses after determining it could be at risk of violating government rules intended to clamp ]]></description>
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			<title>Owing a home is still a dream in America</title>
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<p align="left">US housing market has been undergoing many historic problems such as record foreclosures, tight credit for buyers and tumbling values a new <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/Banks-Mortgage-FLOP/yahoo-real-estate.html" title="Yahoo Real Estate">Yahoo Real Estate</a> survey of present and hopeful homeowners indicates that owning a home is still a major part of the American dream.</p>
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<td colspan="2"><!-- 		@page { margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->After long resisting the kind of financial force Washington used at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, European central bankers on Wednesday pumped nearly $640 billion into the Continent’s banking system. The move raised hopes that the money could alleviate the region’s <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/Banks-Credit-Cards-TOP/" title="Credit">credit</a> squeeze.</td>
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			<title>BOA considers more asset sales to boost capital</title>
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<p align="left">According to the sources BOA is behind in the race of its major U.S. competitors in applying the new capital rules that would lead the bank to consider even more asset sales. The bank's organization is paying attention on not being an outlier compared to its peers and believes it has ‘feasible option’ to increase its capital levels, a person familiar with the situation told.</p>
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<p align="left">Several big names are investigated by the a New York State <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/Banks-Finance-TOP/" title="Financial">financial</a> services agency to check whether they have falsely steered homeowners into overpriced insurance policies. The investigation is focusing on the so-called compelled insurance that has become gradually more common since the recession of the housing market began and homeowners had trouble keeping up with payments on their home insurance.</p>
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			<title>Foreign Banks implementing Cost Control</title>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT">The age of headquarters in New York or London subsidizing investment <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/index.php" title="Banking">banking</a> expansion in Asia is giving way to a period of austerity - a shift the industry accepts is long-term, especially given a steep drop in Asia fee income late last year compared to the rest of the world. The cost cutting goes beyond standard headcount reductions, scything deep inside banks, where whole product teams are being closed down, entire offices are under review, a]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT">JPMorgan <a href="http://www.dozenbanks.com/Banks-Online-Banking-FLOP/chasecom.html" title="Chase">Chase</a> &amp; Co. kicked off bank earnings season with a 23% decline in profit and sagging revenue that investors saw as an ominous precedent for other big financial companies that report results next week. An increase in consumer credit card usage and an uptick in business lending couldn't offset weaknesses elsewhere at JPMorgan, Friday's report showed.</p>
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<div>Bank of America is back to its initial position, slimmed down, exposed of its swagger and no longer the major bank in the country. And investors, after striking the company for two years, finally like what they see. The stock jumped 2.4 percent Thursday after Bank of America reported that it made $2 billion from October through December, reversing a $1.2 billion loss from a year earlier. Th]]></description>
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