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"If you put the Fed on the board in any form — be it the Fed chairman in one bill or the head of the consumer protection agency in another, you have both the Fed and the Treasury on the board. … I don't think their first thoughts would be about
— Kenneth Guenther, former head of the ICBA, on which agency should replace the OTS on the board of the FDIC. TUESDAY
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— William Isaac, the new chairman at Fifth Third, on how the bank managed the recession. WEDNESDAY
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— Bill Massey of Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund, noting that a community bank can't count as capital a tax refund for charging off bad loans if the IRS denies the refund. THURSDAY
"This is much more about the strategic relationship between Wal-Mart and Green Dot than it is about any backdoor way of getting into banking. … This is just
— John Grund of First Annapolis Consulting, commenting on the significance — or lack thereof — of the prepaid card provider's issuance of stock to the giant retailer. FRIDAY
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