71.   Recent history shows that every big bank merger results in closed branches and higher fees for banking services, they say.

72.   Salomon also wants to provide more investment banking services to firms that specialize in leveraged buyouts, he said.

73.   Salomon Brothers provided investment banking services to CapMAC in the transaction, and Lehman Brothers Inc. advised MBIA.

74.   Research in Motion plans to add other wireless data services, such as document editing, Web surfing and even banking services.

75.   Security First started offering banking services over the Internet last October, though most of its accounts were opened when it was a traditional savings bank operating in Kentucky.

76.   Smaller banks also lack the money to pay for expensive new technology needed to deliver electronic banking services to time-pressed customers.

77.   Smith Barney Inc. said it will open an office in Tel Aviv next month, to help provide investment banking services to Israeli companies.

78.   Some banks only provide private banking services to customers referred by a bank officer, another customer, or an outside financial services professional, such as an accountant.

79.   Some banks, including BankAmerica, prefer to offer their own brand of home banking services and have not signed up with Intuit.

80.   Some American bankers are betting that by the time they get their telephone banking services up and running, similar electronic funds transfer facilities will develop.