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	<title>Crikey &#187; banks</title>
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		<title>Bank exec bonuses helped by Rudd&#8217;s rules</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/bank-exec-bonuses-helped-by-rudds-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/bank-exec-bonuses-helped-by-rudds-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive salaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gail Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westpac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd may publicly deride extreme capitalism -- but, fortunately for our bankers, the Federal Government’s policies appear to be aiding and abetting it.]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs outsources lending to charity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/goldman-sachs-outsources-lending-to-charity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/goldman-sachs-outsources-lending-to-charity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street bailout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can't but help be very very cynical about the news that Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffett are going to rustle up half a billion bucks and lend it to small businesses.]]></description>
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		<title>US finance sector&#8217;s sick reality</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/us-finance-sectors-sick-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/us-finance-sectors-sick-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street bailout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past month, 24 US banks have failed, two big finance companies have gone into bankruptcy, followed by a small credit card provider. But American investors don't care; they know if the banks are small enough, the regulators will clean up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Banks: God&#8217;s work or a highway to hell</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/banks-gods-work-or-a-highway-to-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/banks-gods-work-or-a-highway-to-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lloyd blankfein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us banks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So if bankers are doing "god's work as the Goldman Sachs boss says they are, where's the Devil in all of this? Well, judging by the number of banks going belly up in the US, death is definitely in the air.

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>High fliers at the core of the Telstra shareholder revolt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/high-fliers-at-the-core-of-the-telstra-shareholder-revolt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/high-fliers-at-the-core-of-the-telstra-shareholder-revolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shareholders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telcos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Telstra's "shareholder revolt" has nothing to do with mum and dad investors: the criticism over the Telco's structural separation is all coming from a  clique of some of Australia's wealthiest people and the big banks.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lending a cot case, or is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/lending-a-cot-case-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/lending-a-cot-case-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private credit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you had to judge the health of the Australian economy by the amount of lending going on, you'd be entitled to call for an ambulance to revive a fading patient after looking at today's report from the Reserve Bank on private credit for September.

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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>ANZ out-gouges the NAB</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/interesting-anz-out-gouges-the-nab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/interesting-anz-out-gouges-the-nab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big four]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAB]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like the NAB, the ANZ has survived the financial crisis looking rudely health. Which is impressive, considering it suffered more damage from self-inflicted lending disasters than any of the Big Four.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>NAB continues its billion dollar profit gouge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/nab-continues-its-billion-dollar-profit-gouge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/nab-continues-its-billion-dollar-profit-gouge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With such a strong result under its belt, you would have thought the NAB might have had the grace to mention the help from the federal government and Reserve Bank.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/nab-continues-its-billion-dollar-profit-gouge/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;KangaSupa&#8217; a one-shot wonder for many policy ills</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/kangasupa-a-one-shot-wonder-for-many-policy-ills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/kangasupa-a-one-shot-wonder-for-many-policy-ills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superannuation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/kangasupa-a-one-shot-wonder-for-many-policy-ills/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A capital guaranteed national superannuation fund that only invested in fixed income securities would actually serve as an effective surrogate for a publicly owned bank, writes <b>Christopher Joye</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/kangasupa-a-one-shot-wonder-for-many-policy-ills/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Political economy: How best to regulate the financial system</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/political-economy-how-best-to-regulate-the-financial-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/political-economy-how-best-to-regulate-the-financial-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been observed that if a bank is too big to fail it is too large to live, writes <b>Henry Thornton</b>. Goldman Sachs is in the class of organisations that should be allowed to fail.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Call to break up UK banks resonates here</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/call-to-break-up-uk-banks-resonates-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/call-to-break-up-uk-banks-resonates-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank of england]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mervyn King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/call-to-break-up-uk-banks-resonates-here/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the head of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said he wants a break-up of banks to prevent them becoming "too important to fail". It's a message with some echoes in Australia.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/call-to-break-up-uk-banks-resonates-here/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Consumer confidence surges to 28-month high</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/consumer-confidence-surges-to-28-month-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/consumer-confidence-surges-to-28-month-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgage rates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are Australian consumers heading for a fall because they have become overly optimistic? Or are they now more resilient than they were in the first few months of the year?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/consumer-confidence-surges-to-28-month-high/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essay: Labor acts to keep the bankers honest</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/essay-labor-acts-to-keep-the-bankers-honest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/essay-labor-acts-to-keep-the-bankers-honest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Labor Party has a long and colourful history of trying to keep Australia’s banks on the straight and narrow. Has it succeeded? asks <b>Christopher Joye</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A super way to open up the mortgage sector</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/financial-crisis-the-danger-has-gone-lets-get-down-to-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/financial-crisis-the-danger-has-gone-lets-get-down-to-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superannuation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westpac]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/financial-crisis-the-danger-has-gone-lets-get-down-to-business/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Commonwealth Bank and Westpac and their subsidiaries now control over 85% of all new mortgages. <b>Adam Barker</b> suggests a way to break the banks' stranglehold.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>When taxpayers underwrite ANZ Asia, it&#8217;s time to re-regulate</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/09/when-taxpayers-underwrite-anz-asia-its-time-to-re-regulate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/09/when-taxpayers-underwrite-anz-asia-its-time-to-re-regulate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit rating]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/09/when-taxpayers-underwrite-anz-asia-its-time-to-re-regulate/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first of a two-part series, <b>Bernard Keane</b> looks at how the Government has squandered an opportunity to examine finance sector regulation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/09/when-taxpayers-underwrite-anz-asia-its-time-to-re-regulate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australian banks in a league of their own</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/09/australian-banks-in-a-league-of-their-own/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/09/australian-banks-in-a-league-of-their-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basle Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westpac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian banks shouldn't be too aggrieved by the changes to global banking rules that have been drafted this week in the Swiss city of Basle.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cheap money fuels takeover splurge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/cheap-money-fuelling-takeover-splurge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/cheap-money-fuelling-takeover-splurge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cadbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lehman brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marvel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mergers and acquisitions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The past week has seen two big takeover attempts that tell us that the financial alchemists and spin doctors are out peddling their wares again: last week it was Disney and Marvel, overnight it was Kraft bidding for Cadbury.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Political economy: RBA sits easy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/02/political-economy-rba-sits-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/02/political-economy-rba-sits-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s central bank decided, in line with most expectations, to stay with its "emergency" low interest rates yesterday. What next?]]></description>
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		<title>The Dyer Index: life gets tougher for US banks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/the-dyer-index-life-gets-tougher-for-us-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/the-dyer-index-life-gets-tougher-for-us-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The continuing good news on the American economy overnight has obscured the dire plight of the country's remaining 8195 banks.]]></description>
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		<title>The Nigerian scammers become the scammed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/20/the-nigerian-scammers-become-the-scammed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/20/the-nigerian-scammers-become-the-scammed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank of Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone may have been fleecing some of Nigeria's biggest banks, pushing the country's financial system to the edge of collapse.
]]></description>
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		<title>Bank DeathWatch: four more lenders go to the wall</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/bank-deathwatch-four-more-lenders-go-to-the-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/bank-deathwatch-four-more-lenders-go-to-the-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank death watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonial BancGroup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Glenn Dyer</b> reports on the latest casualties from the beleaguered US financial sector.]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Four banks are guilty of corporate crimes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/31/the-big-four-banks-are-guilty-of-corporate-crimes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/31/the-big-four-banks-are-guilty-of-corporate-crimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penalty fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the big four]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[victorian civil and administrative tribunal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NAB fee backdown is small consolation to bank customers who have been victim to one of the greatest corporate thefts over the past decade.]]></description>
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		<title>Bank drops penalty fees. Nice start, long way to go.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/penalty-fees-just-one-sign-of-a-lack-of-bank-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/penalty-fees-just-one-sign-of-a-lack-of-bank-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penalty fees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday NAB announced it would no longer charge consumers penalty fees of $30, writes <b>Gordon Renouf</b>, director of Policy and Campaigns for CHOICE. Now, what about credit card fees?]]></description>
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		<title>US Bank DeathWatch: Another seven go as Guaranty teeters</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/us-bank-deathwatch-another-seven-go-as-guaranty-teeters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/us-bank-deathwatch-another-seven-go-as-guaranty-teeters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guaranty Financial Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westpac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The slow death of American banks continues, with another nasty bout of closures on Friday night -- six in the state of Georgia alone.]]></description>
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		<title>NAB&#8217;s grubby $2 billion cash grab</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/nabs-grubby-2-billion-cash-grab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/nabs-grubby-2-billion-cash-grab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAB]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The way shareholders got preferential treatment yesterday from the NAB, which wanted to raise $2 billion quickly, but then "stagged" most of the shares and took a free profit, was disgusting.]]></description>
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