1.   Devised by Elliott Conway, a structured finance banker at Citibank, that deal, known as Nighthawk, was financed by banks, not the sale of bonds.

2.   Former Smith Barney municipal finance banker Michael Lissack had requested on Monday that the process be moved.

3.   The ban proposed for lawyers is nearly identical to the one imposed on municipal finance bankers.

4.   The cream of the brokerage firms are the corporate finance bankers with their Ivy League degrees and silky-smooth bearing.

5.   He said he had known the finance banker for the past five years.

6.   President Nelson Mandela late Tuesday moved to calm a jittery Johannesburg Stock Exchange by naming retired finance banker Chris Liebenberg as successor to Finance Minister Derek Keys.

7.   President Nelson Mandela late Tuesday named retired finance banker Chris Liebenberg as successor to Finance Minister Derek Keys, who announced his resignation just hours earlier.

8.   President Nelson Mandela late Tuesday named retired finance banker Chris Liebenberg as successor to Finance Minister Derek Keys.