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John Fielding,
CEO
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Vermont National Bank's Socially Responsible Banking Fund ; A commercial bank in a mid-sized city offers depositors the opportunity to earmark their funds and assist in awarding socially responsible loans to local residents and organizations.
The report ranks commercial banks in individual states based on their small business loan portfolios and also ranks major bank holding companies in the national market.
National banks in towns of fewer than 5,000 people may sell insurance, and the OCC has recently authorized national bank sales of other uninsured products (e.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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National banks are examined regularly by the Comptroller of the Currency; state-chartered banks are examined by the FDIC or the Federal Reserve (if they are a member), as well as the state in which they are chartered.
All national banks are required to be members of the Federal Reserve System and are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
In particular, national banks need to ensure that they have adequate procedures to protect documents containing confidential customer information and to destroy such documents when they are no longer needed.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Banks agreed to head the "Bring Peltier Home" campaign in 1996 bringing Native Americans and other supporters together in a national drive for executive clemency for political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
National Council of Churches reportedly withdrawing funds from Citibank due to the bank's policy regarding South Africa.
It blatantly derogates national laws and constitutions while providing extensive powers to global banks and multinational corporations.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The SBS is supporting the National Business Angels Network to increase the flow of informal investment to SMEs by providing a route into the business angels market for the banks and other intermediaries.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The primary reason to donate to the Brain and Tissue Banks and not directly to one researcher is that the Brain and Tissue Banks are funded by the National Institutes of Health to help coordinate storage and distribution of tissue samples for research on developmental disorders.
All results from the genetic testing are shared in an anonymous way with other national and international data banks so that larger groups of families can be analyzed for the genes involved in the transmission of the disorder.
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