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Forbes - The bank has one banking office in fast growing San Bernardino County and one in the mature and largely affluent Orange County market. Golden State Business Bank Upland, CA ...

MSN MoneyCentral - The Colorado State Banking Board on Thursday approved two new rules that will require state-chartered banks to make sure borrowers understand the potential risks they face in selecting nontraditional mortgage products. The new rules, CB101.65 and ...

Hindustan Times - HSBC India on Thursday launched its global personal banking service, through which its Premier category customers will be in a position to take their account with them to any of the 35 countries, while on travel or on shifting permanently. “HSBC ...

Detroit Free Press - The appetite for lending in the small business arena has never been higher than it is right now," said David Morrison, executive vice president for business banking-Michigan at National City Bank in Troy. It's competitive. Banks are holding small ...

Forbes - WASHINGTON Thomson Financial - The United States yesterday proposed more sanctions against military-ruled Myanmar, including blocking critical access to US financial institutions via third countries. Other measures unveiled in the US House of ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - James Bradshaw, a banking analyst with D.A. Davidson & Co., cut his estimate on 2007 earnings from $2.63 to $2.35 a share, and for 2008 from $3.75 to $2.60, due primarily to rising credit costs such as provisions for loan losses. WaMu earned $3.60 a ...

MSN MoneyCentral - Readers of the rune stones in Stockholm are getting increasingly excited about the possibility of a merger between two of Sweden's largest banks - SEB and Nordea - in a deal that could create a new force in European banking. A tie-up would produce a ...

Detroit Free Press - The Michigan institutions have not been as significant players as institutions in other communities," said Rajesh Kothari, cofounder and managing director of Seneca Partners, a Birmingham venture capital and merchant banking firm. Ohio keeps money home

Miami Herald - Graphic shows findings of AP investigation on school teacher abuses, includes a map of abuses, statistics on victims and perpetrators. Sexual misconduct by the very teachers who are supposed to be nurturing the nation's children is widespread ...

Bloomberg - The G-7 meeting will do little to stop the U.S. dollar's fall,'' said Robert Rennie, chief currency strategist at Westpac Banking Corp. in Sydney. ``Outside the French, the level of concern on the euro was limited. Other officials sounded almost ...