11.   Among other things, the proposal stipulates that banks should sell mutual funds in an area separate from where they take deposits.

12.   Among the gainers, HSBC Holdings climbed on talk the London-based bank will sell part of its Hang Seng Bank Ltd. unit to a Chinese company.

13.   An over-the-counter option is a customized option that a bank sells to its customer.

14.   And the banks can sell insurance only through subsidiaries, not parent companies themselves.

15.   Another drag on the index is the effect of trading by banks to cover index-linked derivative products the banks sell to retail investors.

16.   Any bank selling mortgage-backed securities into this market, traders say, will be hard-pressed to make a profit.

17.   As the Comptroller observes, annuities serve an important investment purpose and are functionally similar to other investments that banks typically sell.

18.   As for Wachovia, analysts said they were not clear why the bank was selling itself for pennies more than it was trading at last Thursday.

19.   At the same time, banks are selling businesses and leaving regions where they are less competitive and less profitable.

20.   Banks have been selling that stock to replenish capital depleted by bad-loan write-offs.