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CFO October 1, 2007 Rob Garver	One Nation, Left Behind The race to cut compliance-based capital has begun, and U.S. banks are trailing the pack -- badly.
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FDIC FYI August 5, 2004	FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking The FDIC has replaced on its website the FYI dated December 8, 2003, titled "Estimating the Capital Impact of Basel II in the United States," with a corrected version.
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Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Tomas J.T. Balino & Angel Ubide	The New World of Banking Four trends are fundamentally altering the financial world: consolidation of institutions, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universalization of banking. Each of these poses challenges for the effective supervision and regulation of the financial sector....
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