101.   Federal officials last week were in no mood to give the huge Japanese bank the benefit of the doubt.

102.   Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will testify next Monday on the Japanese bank before a Senate banking panel.

103.   Few consumers know of Daiwa or other Japanese banks.

104.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said today he is considering ordering spot inspections of Japanese banks following the loan scandal.

105.   Forty-two percent of foreign borrowings in Hong Kong are owned to Japanese banks.

106.   Foreign lenders are now charging Japanese banks a premium to borrow abroad.

107.   For more on Japanese banks, see NI JBANK.

108.   Friday, Japanese news services reported that Ishikawa Bank, a regional bank, was filing for bankruptcy, the first Japanese bank failure in two years.

109.   For news on Japanese banks, see NI JBANK.

110.   Fuji Bank and Sumitomo Bank have also unloaded operations in the last year, as Japanese banks shuttered offices across the country.