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U.S. Banker May 2008 Holly Sraeel et al.	Playing Both Ends Against the Middle There are plenty of mid-tier banks and thrifts posting respectable performances.
U.S. Banker March 2007 Lee Conrad	Best of the Best: Banking's Top 100 The banking industry had a tough gig last year. For proof, take a look at the falling trend in annual return-on-equity figures. Here are the top 100: TCF Financial Corp... Bank of Hawaii Corp... U.S. Bancorp... etc.
CFO March 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick	The Two Faces of Bank Mergers Despite all the talk about the "seamlessness" of the mergers being planned in the nation's fast-consolidating banking industry, CFOs of bank customers aren't all that convinced. And their concerns are both financial and personal: Will the merger of their bank hurt their access to capital, they ask? And how will their relationship with bank officers change?
U.S. Banker January 2007	The Opportunists The banking industry turned in another round of record profits in 2006, but you wouldn't know it by listening to bankers.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Wells Fargo Forgoes Mediocrity The financial institution continues its run as one of the most consistently performing banks. Investors, take note.
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Bank Technology News September 2006	Performance Of Small Banks Tells Only Part of Their Story The performance of community banks is often an afterthought when talk of what makes the banking industry tick gets going.
U.S. Banker August 2005 Lee Conrad	Best In Middle While smaller banks offer the personal touch, the big guys now are stealing their best customers: small business. Still, mid-tier banks in U.S. Banker's annual ranking posted some very healthy numbers
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The Motley Fool June 17, 2011 Cindy Johnson	What's Scarier Than a Bailout Bank? What could be scarier than a bank that's "too big to fail"? A bank that isn't. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s list of banks that have failed consists mostly of regional and community banks the government is willing to let go.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Going Back to the Wells Fargo This huge bank may not be quite as risky as investors think. The bank has the power to grow a little faster than its peers in the coming years.
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