31.   Once the current turmoil subsides, analysts say foreign banks may even benefit from the crisis.

32.   Progress was slow, but competing banks did not benefit from being quicker.

33.   Rate cuts on government debt lure investors seeking higher returns to equities, while banks benefit as consumers increase their borrowing.

34.   Reardon explained that both banks benefited from the transaction.

35.   She argues that the bank may even benefit from the inevitable customer defections amid the turmoil of integrating Wachovia and First Union.

36.   The bank has also benefited from large deposits from people in countries like Germany and Denmark.

37.   The bank also has benefited this year, Ziegler said, from increased foreign exchange lending and securities trading.

38.   The banks have benefited from lower rates in recent weeks, with higher shares in Banco Ganadero and Banco de Bogota.

39.   The biggest banks have benefited the most.

40.   The bank also benefited because some costs fell and systems improved as its Project Columbus -- a multiyear program to increase the efficiency of its systems --wound down.