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• ABA Education Foundation Urges Consumers to Avoid Top Five Credit Mistakes

  - 2007-10-16

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Laura Fisher of ABA Education Foundation, +1-202-663- 5466, lfisher@aba.com Bankers and Students Prepare for 5th Annual National Get Smart About Credit DayWASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Bankers Association Education Foundation today released a list of the five most common mistakes consumers make when using credit,...

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• Industrial Troika Calls Global Summit on Counter-eCrime Operations

  - 2007-02-26

  Can Bankers, Cops and Geeks Become as Organized as eCriminals? LOS ALTOS, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG, American Bankers Association ABA and the Financial Services Technology Consortium FSTC are pleased to announce their joint sponsorship of the inaugural Counter-eCrime Operations Summit CeCOS, a conference...

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• Farm Credit System: Lending Anywhere But on the Farm - Part II, The

  - 2007-02-01

  Bert Ely of Ely & Company Inc. produced "The Form Credit System: Leading Anywhere But on the Farm" in 2006 under a grant from the American Bankers Association. The paper documents how the Farm Credit System is aggressively seeking to increase its off-farm lending activities. This excerpt from the report...

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• The etiology of financial instability: then and now.(ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION)

  - 2007-01-01

  Embedded in our book's subtitle is the idea that. economic perspectives on financial institutions, markets, and regulatory schemes are dialectical in nature. By this I mean that measures proposed or adopted to solve problems that particularly bedeviled policymakers in the past reach forward in time to...

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• Etiology of Financial Instability: Then and Now, The

  - 2007-01-01

  Embedded in our book's subtitle is the idea that economic perspectives on financial institutions, markets, and regulatory schemes are dialectical in nature. By this I mean that measures proposed or adopted to solve problems that particularly bedeviled policymakers in the past reach forward in time to shape the present and...

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• Honors

  - 2006-10-01

  Mark Bradford, president and chief executive officer of Monroe Bancorp, Bloomington, was invited to address a session of investors at the Annual Community Bank Investor Conference of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. held in New York in August. His presentation focused on the historical performance of Monroe Bancorp, as well...

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• Get Smart About Credit Day set for Oct. 19

  - 2006-09-01

  On Oct. 19, bankers in communities across the country will be helping young people prepare for adult financial responsibilities by participating in the Fourth Annual Get Smart About Credit Day, a financial education event sponsored by the American Bankers Association Education Foundation.Last year, more than 1,000 bankers from institutions in...

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• Commercebank Among Top 10 Banking Performers in American Bankers' Association ABA Journal Ranking; The Bank Rises to Number Seven From Last Year's Number Fifteen

  - 2006-06-22

  CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Commercebank, one of the largest national privately held banks headquartered in South Florida, has been listed number seven in the ABA Banking Journal's Top Ten Private Institutions Ranking. The publication of the American Bankers Association annually reviews the financial results of the nation's top-performing financial...

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• New ABA toolbox on financial education.(ABA Resources)(American Bankers Association)

  - 2006-05-01

  ABA has introduced its latest toolbox for bankers, which focuses on how banks can promote financial education and financial literacy in their communities. ABA has introduced its latest toolbox for bankers, which focuses on how banks can promote financial education and financial literacy in...

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• U.S. Bank to Help Create a Generation That Values Saving on National Teach Children to Save Day April 25

  - 2006-04-24

  MINNEAPOLIS -- On Tuesday, April 25, hundreds of employees at U.S. Bank will meet with students, and teach them how to save money and make it part of their lifestyle during the tenth annual American Bankers Association ABA Education Foundation's National Teach Children to Save Day. The ABA Education...

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