21.   The bank hired IBM to help it figure out where to put the center and to look at other ways to bolster its backup systems.

22.   The bank hired Mehmet Dalman, previously with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, as head of global equities in May.

23.   The banks have hired a veteran lobbyist to try to sway the supervisors and the mayor to their side.

24.   The bank also hired Peter Pinto to head U.S. government securities trading, as well as John Montgomery and John Mandy as bond salesmen.

25.   The bank hired accounting firm Kesselman to check the extent of the damages caused by Tsubari.

26.   The bank hired Aston Associates, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based consulting firm specializing in bank reengineering, to manage the project.

27.   The bank hired Bradley for speeches in locations ranging from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., to Anchorage, Alaska.

28.   The bank has hired Sir Norman Foster, architect of such buildings as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Building in Hong Kong, to design the headquarters.

29.   The bank also will hire more counselors to recruit customers for low-cost mortgages and provide grants to more community groups.

30.   The bank has also hired the global accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers and two outside fraud specialists.