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		<title><![CDATA[Why Banks Need to Clamber Aboard the Mobile Finance Bandwagon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[History will remember 2008 as the year Steve Jobs revolutionized personal finance. Well, maybe not quite.  But the iPhone is so darned cool that it really could define a whole new philosophy of personal financial management for the 20-something generation.    Driven by economic hard times and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:52:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dude, Whereâ€™s My Money?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if banks arenâ€™t already facing a credibility crisis in the eyes of the public, now comes word that the first banks receiving public bailout funds are keeping mum about how they plan to use the cash.    While banks have launched public relations campaigns to reassure customers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:27:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Dicey Times, Will Humor Comfort Leery Bank Patrons?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000245/in-dicey-times-will-humor-comfort-leery-customers/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a bleak holiday season marked by employee layoffs, runaway foreclosures, and an ongoing bank crisis, some financial services firms are putting a humorous spin into their advertising. The idea may be to engage with frustrated consumers by giving them a chuckle, but such a lighthearted approach will more likely...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:18:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Fraud Crosses Delivery Channels, Expands In Traditional Areas]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fraud experts sometimes compare chasing financial crime to squeezing a balloon -- the air just moves to the other side.    Similarly, as financial services providers have put a squeeze on fraud online, crooks have just moved their game to other channels. Thieves are increasingly seeking less-protected â€œtraditionalâ€...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:09:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank of America Decides Not to Climb Every Mountain]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial firms: Beware the green backlash.    Bowing to pressure from environmentalists, Bank of America announced Dec. 3 it will phase out financing for companies that get coal by mountaintop mining PDF link. According to The New York Times Green Inc. blog, executives at the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:11:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks Should Consider Mobile, But Keep it Simple]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks are goinâ€™ mobile.    Citibank, U.S. Bank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, BancorpSouth, and most recently Regions Bank are already offering access to accounts and a variety of other services through rapidly advancing and ubiquitous mobile devices. And in the United Kingdom, banking via mobile is growing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:28:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Moving West, Chase Needs WaMu's Branches]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase announced Friday that it expects to save more than 20,000 WaMu workers at the bankâ€™s branches and wealth management division from getting a pink slip this Christmas.    The retention of WaMuâ€™s branch staff is not just an altruistic move -- it points up the geographic...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:24:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ING Direct Shuns Branches, But Offers Coffee and Counsel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping to engage consumers with a latte and a side of financial advice, ING Direct is offering a series of financial seminars at coffeehouse-style outlets. The cafÃ© strategy is just the latest effort by the Amsterdam-based online bank, which has no physical branches in the U.S.,Â  to make an end-run...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:37:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks Face Greater Pressure on Fee Transparency]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the tension between banks and consumers weren't already so thick you could cut it with the sharp drop in home values, it seems that banks may be taking another turn on the hot seat when it comes to bank fees. by Karen Epper Hoffman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:37:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on Mid-Sized Banks and Their Giant Problems]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are mid-sized banks falling like frat boys after a toga party, with failures mounting more quickly than those of their larger banking brethren?    Even before the spectacular Wall Street crash, WaMu's takeover, and the run on IndyMac, industry analysts were forecasting that small and mid-sized financial...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:42:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Middle Class Banks Get Squeezed in the Financial Crisis]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the middle-class arguably gets hardest hit in any economic downturn, mid-sized banks are taking the brunt of the recent banking crisis.    Two recent cases in point: Houston, Tex.-based Franklin Bank and Security Pacific Bank of Los Angeles both bit the dust on Friday, the latest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:25:02 -0800</pubDate>
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