21.   Foreign and local investors are buying the banks not only for their banking operations but for their holdings in other industries as well, he said.

22.   Garipoglu bought a bank with a clean balance sheet.

23.   GE Capital, which also owns a small bank in Poland, is planning to buy other banks in the region.

24.   He denied reports in the press that his bank was negotiating to buy investment bank Banque Indosuez, the flagship unit of Compagnie de Suez SA.

25.   He released audiotapes suggesting that Yilmaz and Taner helped one of his front men buy a bank from the government.

26.   He was buying another bank.

27.   He was not the only industrialist to buy a bank, and the advantages are obvious.

28.   He said the funds would not be used to buy another bank.

29.   Hugh McColl built NationsBank by buying distressed banks at sale prices.

30.   In banking there are many growing companies that want to buy other banks.