71. Large banks eagerly introduced crooked clients to subsidiary banks or credit co-ops in order to keep questionable loans off their own books while hoping to benefit from the business. 72. Large banks such as Malayan Banking Bhd. rose on investor confidence that the large banks will weather an economic slowdown better than the small ones. 73. Large banks that do business overseas led the decline. 74. Large banks, on the average, also devote relatively modest amounts of their portfolios to small business loans. 75. Large banks could fare worse in the fourth quarter as some institutions absorb losses tied to the turmoil in the global financial markets. 76. Large banks financed large companies in a way more modest-sized banks could not. 77. Large banks of escalators would allow people to go up or down to stations or the street. 78. Large banks still have no great interest in the area. 79. Large banks with significant business in Asia declined the most. 80. Large interstate banks say no one but Congress can tell them what to do. |