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		<title>Large bank customers more dissatisfied</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the largest U.S. banks were ranked very low for retail customer satisfaction, a marketing research company said on Thursday. The study implies that as some of the biggest banks get bigger, customers may not be happy. Smaller banks and even large regional banks fared better than their colossal counterparts, according to the survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street likely to give Obama chilly reception</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Obama heads to New York City on Thursday to press for a major overhaul of financial rules, he faces stiff opposition by Wall Street to the toughest proposed regulatory crackdown since the Great Depression. A Senate committee on Wednesday approved the final piece of the legislation: strict new oversight of the murky and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks push G20 to reform trade finance regulation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trade finance banks are stepping up pressure on the G20 to ease regulation of the credits that keep global commerce flowing, after a new survey showed credit tightness is still hampering the flow of trade. The survey, conducted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), shows that the supply of trade finance remains constrained both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate tax-writer cautious on bank tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to tax financial institutions to recoup funds spent during the government&#8217;s bailout of financial firms received tepid enthusiasm from the top tax writer in the U.S. Senate. Senator Max Baucus, the conservative-leaning Democrat who heads the Senate Finance Committee said on Tuesday he will hold a series of hearings to examine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Bancorp profit rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Bancorp said Tuesday its first-quarter profit rose nearly 55 percent from a year ago, helped by higher revenue from its fee-based businesses and slowing consumer loan losses. The bank also benefited from growth in traditional deposits, giving it a cheap source of money for loans. But the Minneapolis bank still wrote off more bad [...]]]></description>
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