Most other projects, however, involve smaller regional banks that have closer ties to local governments.

But the unsolicited takeovers that have actually been completed involved much smaller banks.

The company and Federal investigators said that the scheme might have involved other banks and a total of more than $200 million in fraudulent loans.

They and others also think his mindset is too much that of a regulator when dealing with supervisory issues involving banks.

Again this involves banks in the provision of trade credit (loans).

But the stakes now are often much higher, involving not individual banks but entire economies.

The first, up until 1936, involved banks in a total of seven areas, most of which were organized as Soviets.

Loan schemes for farmers were improved by involving national banks.

The deal was arranged, like most arms sales, as a commercial transaction, involving banks and insurance companies in several countries.

The last few weeks have been heady ones for merger speculation involving banks.