1.   The authority said the banks and brokerage firms eliminated or are resolving the problems.

2.   Analysts said banks and shareholders have little choice but to approve the package, given that the alternative is to force bankruptcy.

3.   Analysts says banks had too many branches and workers given their stunted revenue growth.

4.   Armstrong said the bank and the regulators had simply used different assumptions in estimating future losses.

5.   As much as one-fourth the loans may be unrecoverable, the bank said.

6.   Colman said the bank and another guarantor of the loan requested the drawings be included as collateral.

7.   Compared to November, the WPI was unchanged, the bank said.

8.   Customers of other banks account for one-quarter of these transactions, and that figure has been rising rapidly in recent years, the bank said.

9.   Credit Suisse still needs approval from the U.K. and the U.S. antitrust authorities, the bank said today.

10.   Customers of other banks account for a quarter of those transactions, and that number has been rising rapidly in recent years, the bank said.