31.   They have led corporate reorganizations, pioneered a bond market, set up investment banking services and booted managers who were not quite with the program.

32.   They intended to follow Goldman, Sachs with more ambitious bond trading and investment banking operations but got cold feet after the market crash that year.

33.   Though smaller, Creditanstalt is widely considered the better bank, with a far more extensive, and successful, overseas investment banking operation.

34.   Two other executives, former investment banking head Peter Norris and former Chief Operating Officer Geoffrey Barnett, will testify next week.

35.   Undergraduates were most interested in management consulting, investment banking, advertising and law and least interested in education, pharmaceuticals and biotech.

36.   With the help of former BankAmerica Vice Chairman Lewis Coleman, the San Francisco investment banking firm hopes to arrange many more.

37.   Prosecutors alleged that the rip-off scheme was carried out as Edward Gurin posed as the president of Thermopylae Capital and Thermopylae Group, two purported investment banking firms.

38.   After two decades, Bank Exim had developed and expanded its portfolio to retail banking, corporate lending, investment banking and international banking.

39.   Hong Kong shares were left battered after news that investment bank Peregrine Investments Holdings Ltd may be heading for liquidation.

40.   McFarlane spent most of his career at Citibank, where he held positions in corporate banking, treasury, investment banking and stockbroking.