101.   Dai said state banks were no longer government institutions but were enterprises in the real sense.

102.   Currency trading centers will remain closed Wednesday and Thursday, the bank said, without specifying whether they would reopen on Friday.

103.   Five hundred Credit Lyonnais employees are being laid off for two weeks after fire gutted its Paris headquarters, the state-owned bank said Tuesday.

104.   The official said offshore banks and insurance companies would be allowed to operate in the zone.

105.   The Venezuelan government took over Wednesday private Grupo Financiero Latinoamericana, saying the bank was in shaky condition and unable to guarantee deposits.

106.   Officials said foreign banks which turned local and divested part of their stake to Malaysian individuals or firms would be allowed to expand their branch networks in Malaysia.

107.   The central council of the Bundesbank held its key interest rates and repurchase rates unchanged at a meeting on Thursday, the bank said.

108.   The central council of the Bundesbank held key German interest rates unchanged on Thursday, the bank said.

109.   The Economic Times newspaper quoted executive vice-president Jean-Claude Gruffat as saying the bank planned to expand operations into the capital markets, project finance and corporate lending.

110.   The MeesPierson spokesman said his bank and AIOC Finance Corp. had also worked together on starting a similar bank in Ukraine, which had been quite successful.