William M. Isaac has parlayed his years as a top banking regulator into a profitable business advising banks on how to deal with regulators.

My Lord, you'd think I was a corporation lawyer, sitting at a desk, advising banks and probating estates!

Basically, my job is advising banks on how to improve their defences against accidents and fraud.

Although now a global player, the firm was quite international from the outset, advising mostly Canadian banks and companies.

One of his friends suggested he could make a nice living advising banks on how to comply with the lending laws.

Keefe Bruyette & Woods, a securities company that advises banks on mergers, said half of its 170 workers had not been accounted for.

It advises banks on good banking practice.

In 1982 he formed his own consulting company, Geoffrey Bell and Company, which advises central banks and governments on financial management issues.

She travels widely to advise central banks and other entities.

Her father is president of R.H.W. Associates, a company in Princeton that advises banks on commercial loans.