1.   And faced with a competitive imbalance, they could choose to bail out of the savings deposit insurance fund.

2.   At the same time, a deposit insurance fund will provide full coverage of deposits at merchant banks.

3.   Azuero was named this week to head the bank deposits guarantee fund, replacing Juan Manuel Avella, who is in prison awaiting trial.

4.   Drug dealers often use Colombian banks to deposit funds derived from illegal drug trafficking.

5.   Federal banking regulators and lawmakers are near an agreement to merge the commercial bank and thrift deposit insurance funds, say industry lobbyists.

6.   Full coverage of bank deposits by a deposit insurance fund in case banks fail.

7.   Greenspan also spoke of bolstering the federal deposit insurance fund that protects the deposits of customers who put their money into accounts at thrift institutions.

8.   If carried out, the plan would lead to the consolidation of the separate deposit insurance funds, one now backing banks and the other supporting savings and loans.

9.   Keycorp said earnings slipped in the third quarter, as rising expenses and a charge to replenish a federal deposit insurance fund offset rising fees and lending income.

10.   One sign of the change of heart can be found in Eurodollars, industry could play a role in bolstering the federal thrift deposit insurance fund.