1.   If this trend continues, building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector.

2.   The figures also show the fact that the growth of foreign currency business has been primarily located in the wholesale banking sector.

3.   CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, New York, named Mark D. Abrams global marketing executive for the global private banking sector.

4.   DG Bank Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank, as it is officially known, is the central bank for the cooperative banking sector, which caters to farmers and small enterprises.

5.   It is part of a wider restructuring of ownership in the Italian banking sector.

6.   The Chinese retail banking sector is off limits to foreign banks.

7.   The Thai private debt crisis, rooted in a profligate and unprofessional finance and banking sector, was not unprecedented.

8.   The US banking sector was slammed again Friday as concerns mounted about Russia-related losses and business ties to Asia.

9.   Also on the agenda is a clean up of the troubled banking sector.

10.   Another major worry is the fear of a looming crisis in the property and banking sectors, it said.