1.   Analysts and bankers predict the change will result in a large-scale consolidation of banks within many countries even as some banks aspire to create global financial powerhouses.

2.   After his departure he began to piece together another financial powerhouse, the company now known as the Travelers Group.

3.   But Shipley has re-created Chase as a true financial powerhouse with a global reach, particularly in areas like trading and corporate finance.

4.   Chase has been striving to transform itself into a global financial powerhouse, and acquiring Morgan could sharply accelerate the process.

5.   Morgan, a niche player, left to exploit singular strengths, rather than being a financial powerhouse capable of being all things to all people?

6.   So great is the demand for such services, financial powerhouses like Charles Schwab and Merrill Lynch have even held seminars for clients on the topic.

7.   Still, executives warn that it took less than a decade for the City to grow from a local brokerage center into an international financial powerhouse.

8.   The overwhelming success of their new ballpark has transformed the Indians from a welfare franchise into a financial powerhouse.

9.   The two men who will run the massive new financial powerhouse to be made up of Citicorp and the Travelers Group could hardly be more different.

10.   Those who succeed expect to repeat the miracle in Cleveland, where Jacobs Field turned a derelict franchise into a financial powerhouse.