1.   Banking officials Tuesday said legal reform would create a wider range of products for corporate customers and individuals.

2.   But banking analysts say the valuations of the property often overstated actual worth.

3.   But industry analysts and bank advisers said banking executives were not rushing to cut deals like the huge marriages of other financial services giants completed in the last year.

4.   Moreover, Ciampi said banking companies that move quickly to acquire rivals or merge with other banks will get tax breaks for costs or losses arising from consolidation.

5.   Bank Negara governer Tan Sri Ahmad Mohd Don said banking institutions will now be required to publicise their key financial data.

6.   Hammoud said banking officials needed to determine whether any of those on the list had assets in Lebanon.

7.   Ichikawa said Japanese banking corporate investors, who were active buyers for some time until the latter half of last month, slowed their buying.

8.   Optimists say banking reforms and government spending can restore growth.

9.   The radio said banking issues and the creation of joint companies to invest in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Iran also were among topics discussed at the meeting.

10.   Tokyo dealers said banking issues, brokerages and insurances, and high technology stocks were among early losers.