11.   That signaled the bank is acting to address the problem of its responsibility for introducing risky clients to the cooperative, traders said.

12.   The bank acts as billing and marketing agent for AIG.

13.   The bank is acting not out of altruism, but as a matter of business strategy, Biller said.

14.   The bank usually acts as an agent for the Treasury Department to sell or buy a currency.

15.   The commission also said the bank should act less like a bank and make more grants, rather than loans.

16.   The statement by the Union Bank said that a German bank had acted as intermediary in those transactions.

17.   These banks act as middlemen in the trading of gold.

18.   To some Israelis, the entire confrontation with Switzerland carried a bad taste, even if all of them agreed that the Swiss banks had acted outrageously.

19.   Under the regulation, banks act as agents in the sale of annuities, typically through brokerage subsidiaries, and receive a commission.

20.   While the bank can still act on subsequent days, analysts expressed doubt rates would be cut after recent signs that consumer spending is picking up.