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• U.S. Bank to Teach Children How to Be Savers for Life

  - 2008-04-29

  MINNEAPOLIS -- Hundreds of U.S. Bank employees will meet with students in their local markets to teach them how to be savers for life during the 12th annual Teach Children to Save program on Tuesday, April 29. This event is sponsored by the American Bankers Association ABA Education Foundation. ...

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• Misconceptions fuel minority lag in owning home

  - 2005-06-24

  (This article originally ran in the Long Island Business News, Long Island, NY, another Dolan Media publication.)Homeownership among minorities may lag because of misconceptions about mortgage options and credit, according to the American Bankers Association. About half of blacks and Latinos believe they must have almost perfect credit, have held...

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• Federal Court Rules in Favor of SB 1 — California Departments of Corporations, Financial Institutions Given Green Light to Enforce Privacy Protection Legislation

  - 2004-07-01

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Federal judge has cleared the way for state government to begin implementing Senate Bill 1 tomorrow -- the date the new law is set to take effect -- pursuant to a decision handed down this afternoon in a lawsuit filed by the American Bankers Association ABA,...

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• ABA study targets state, local laws

  - 2003-03-01

  AROUND THE NATION State and local laws intended to curb abusive lending practices are found to be premature, unwise and potentially harmful, according to a report issued last week by the American Bankers Association ABA. "There are better and more targeted ways of attacking predatory lending without restricting the mortgage...

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• ABA, FHLB agency form strategic alliance

  - 2003-01-01

  A new strategic alliance has been announced by the American Bankers Association and the Federal Home Loan Banks' Mortgage Partnership Finance Program to develop a program that will benefit community mortgage lenders and increase competition in the secondary mortgage market. Under the expected arrangement through ABA's subsidiary, the Corporation for...

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