Fifty-five entries recognized at 2005 ad awards competition.
What are the trends in bank advertising? A good way to find out is to look at the results of the 2005 Ad Awards contest, which is sponsored by the ABA Marketing Network. The names of 55 winners in the 33rd annual competition were announced last month at the...

Around The Nation.
Workers ask PNP for help More than 200 workers have sought assistance from the Philippine National Police (PNP) amid brewing tension in an agricultural farm in San Miguel, Bulacan after they were abandoned by its owners that already resulted into heavy losses for the business venture. ...

Don't get burned by your toaster giveaway.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Your CEO has asked you to come up with a campaign to attract new interest-bearing checking account holders. You develop an offer to pay for the first order of preprinted checks (a $12.50 value) to any customer who opens an interest-bearing checking account with a...

Helping homeowners.
Robert R. Lavelle is still the executive vice president of Dwelling House Savings and Loan in the Hill District of Pittsburgh at the age of 89. His son, Robert M. Lavelle, has been with the firm for 32 years and is now president of the small financial institution in...

FIRREA: a study in compliance.
Sixteen years and multiple revisions later, there are varying opinions as to how well the objectives of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, more commonly known as FIRREA, are being met. In an attempt to gain a better understanding of the general level of compliance...

Appraisal groups push for amending FIRREA via support of new Obama bill and H.R. 1295.
A new bill aimed at combating mortgage fraud was introduced in the Senate February 14 by Sen. Barack Obama, D-III. The bill, S. 2280, known as the Stop Fraud Act and co-sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-III., would authorize $10 million more for anti-mortgage fraud programs, including state appraisal...

BUSINESS BEAT.
Byline: The Register-Guard People Harry "Hank" Storr has been hired as vice president and corporate banker at the Eugene office of Sterling Savings Bank. He worked most recently in a similar capacity at Washington Mutual. Steve Erickson has joined the staff at Fall...

Debt and taxes: the hidden costs of ClintonCare.
IF YOU THOUGHT THE SAVINGS-AND-loan bailout was a whopper, just wait. Inside the bowels of President Clinton's Health Security Act is a debt-creation scheme that could make S&L looters look like pikers. Under the bill, individual health plans that get into financial trouble--say, by offering overly generous benefits--could stave...

Financial institutions fraud.
I. INTRODUCTION II. BANK FRAUD: [sections] 1344 A. Scope B. Elements of the Offense 1. Knowledge 2. Executes or Attempts to Execute 3. Scheme or Artifice 4. To Defraud or Obtain Monies by False or Fraudulent Pretenses ...

Financial institutions fraud.
I. INTRODUCTION II. BANK FRAUD: [sections] 1344 A. Potential Scope B. Elements of the Offense 1. Knowledge 2. Executes or attempts to Execute 3. Scheme or Artifice 4. To Defraud or Obtain Monies By False or Fraudulent Pretenses a. Defrauding a Financial...