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International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK : Uganda's finance minister wanted to give more than 90 percent of the population of his homeland access to the banking system and financial services to try to spur economic growth, especially in poor rural areas. But his government did not ...

Digital Chosunilbo - Grand National Party presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak clashed with his United New Democratic Party rival Chung Dong-young over easing restrictions in the financial sector. Lee wants to ease the current ban on non-banking companies expanding into ...

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 ...

Reuters - NEW YORK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N: Quote , Profile , Research ), a credit card issuer and banking company, posted a third quarter net loss after taking more than $800 million of charges from shuttering its GreenPoint ...

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 - 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 ...

The Independent - A decade-long push into investment banking by one of America's biggest retail banks came to an abrupt and painful end yesterday, as Bank of America said the credit crisis had destroyed its Wall Street profits. Ken Lewis, the ambitious chief executive ...

MSN MoneyCentral - Bank of America, the second-biggest US lender, signalled it could dramatically scale back its investment banking division after shocking the markets on Thursday with a 32 per cent drop in third-quarter earnings. Announcing a review of every business ...

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 ...

Reuters - NEW YORK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp (BAC.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Thursday said it expects to make changes within its investment banking business and said its outlook for the first half of 2008 in that business is less robust ...