61.   In Switzerland, the large banks have been swallowing up regional banks often troubled by bad loans.

62.   Investments in Dublin-quoted companies will include the large banks and industrials, as well as smaller stocks.

63.   It will enable CoreStates to keep pace with several large banks that are expanding into its region through acquisitions, including First Union Corp. and PNC Bank Corp.

64.   Its money management franchise, though, could be a good fit for a large regional bank, such as the ever-acquisitive Nationsbank.

65.   J.P. Morgan is the other large bank with a large dependence on trading revenue.

66.   James Grant, a senior vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, is among the executives of large banks who are unhappy with the fee system.

67.   Japanese bonds fell as stocks surged, prompting a large Japanese bank to bet that money market interest rates will rise, a trader said.

68.   Jordan negotiated an agreement with Israel to open branches of a large Jordanian bank in the West Bank and Gaza.

69.   Justice regulators favor a large bank acquiring at least a large chunk of the assets.

70.   Large banks and film studios are taking multibillion dollar write-offs -- for the first time in the postwar era in some cases -- to account for mounting losses.