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• Citizens Financial's investment in friendliness hits chord with customers.

  - 2004-11-28

  By Sasha Talcott, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 28--Citizens Financial Group's well-known ads showing bankers opening branches early or carrying groceries, and other acts of friendliness, have attracted new customers. But Citizens now must win business from tough...

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• The Boston Globe Boston Capital column.

  - 2004-11-23

  By Steven Syre, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 23--Why can't they just get along? David Platt, the scientist and controversy-magnet who runs Pro Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Newton, doesn't see eye to eye with his old employer, ...

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• US, Iraqi troops fight to retake control in Mosul.

  - 2004-11-17

  By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--MOSUL, Iraq -- American and Iraqi troops yesterday fought to reclaim police stations from insurgents who seized control of broad swaths of this sprawling northern city in what a top Kurdish...

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• Bank fires founder of Peabody, Mass.-based mortgage firm.

  - 2004-11-11

  By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--John F. Gallagher, a founder of 1-800-East-West Mortgage Co. and ISoldMyHouse.com and the radio voice of many of its ads, said he was fired yesterday by the bank that he and...

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• The Boston Globe business briefs column.

  - 2004-10-13

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--CITIZENS OFFERS $100 FOR NEW ACCOUNTS: Citizens Financial Group launched an advertising campaign this week that promises to pay $100 to customers who open a checking account, ratcheting up its efforts to compete ...

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• Banknorth Group's CEO defends 51 percent sale.

  - 2004-09-29

  By Sasha Talcott, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 29--As criticism mounted yesterday over Banknorth Group's pending deal with a Canadian bank, chief executive William J. Ryan defended his decision to sell a majority stake in New England's largest...

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• The Boston Globe Boston Capital column.

  - 2004-09-02

  By Steven Syre, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 2--NOT A BIG HIT EVERYWHERE: Bill Ryan is spending the last days of the summer traveling across Canada and the United States to pitch big shareholders on the complicated plan to...

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• Boston's FleetCenter name to die soon; new label uncertain.

  - 2004-09-02

  By Sasha Talcott, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 2--Bank of America Corp. is close to a deal to put its own name on the FleetCenter, executives said yesterday. The bank surprised some in the advertising world by declining...

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• Canadian financial firm acquires controlling stake in New England bank.

  - 2004-08-27

  By Sasha Talcott, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 27--Banknorth branches across New England will become TD Banknorth under an agreement yesterday that gives Canada's TD Bank Financial Group a controlling stake in New England's largest independent bank. ...

  Tags: acquisition, bank, Boston Globe, financial, TD Waterhouse

• Boston investment firm to pay $575,000 to settle charges.

  - 2004-08-26

  By Andrew Caffrey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--The Boston investment firm Adams, Harkness Inc. will pay $575,000 to settle charges that it failed to disclose it was paid by investment banks to write research reports on the banks' ...

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