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...check his balance at BankAmerica and transfer money between accounts. With his lap computer, Larry Lape, a business executive, does much of his personal banking from hotel rooms ; hundreds of miles away from his hometown Huntington National Bank in Columbus. Without leaving his home, Page Stodder, a Cleveland investment banker, can use his PC to pay bills from 82 different companies. Says Stodder: "It's faster than writing checks, putting stamps on envelopes and taking them to the mailbox...
...fees that range from $5 to $15 a month, customers who apply for home banking receive floppy disks that enable them to link their personal computers via modem and telephone line to their bank's computer. After punching in a secret password, the home banker can display his current balances, confirm that deposits have been properly credited or call for an up-to-date listing of all the checks that have cleared. Ask a question about banking services, and the answer will be on the screen the next day. Bills from merchants who join an ever expanding roster provided...
...rescue squad in Florida but did not take to it. Then he learned of a medical retraining program in Nebraska and secured an interest-free loan to enter it in return for pledging to practice in rural Bridgeport (pop. 1,668) whose only two physicians were nearing retirement. Says Banker Eldon Evers, who negotiated the deal: "Everything has worked to the letter." Now married to an American nurse, Nguyen has lived in Bridgeport for eight years and happily calls it home. "I never knew anything about Nebraska until I came here," he says. "I smelled the manure and got used...
...Cubans play an important role in the local financial community. More than 400 Cuban-born executives hold the rank of vice president or higher in Miami's banks. "I'd say we control between 15% and 20% of the Miami banking industry," says Carlos Arboleya, 56, a former Havana banker now vice chairman of the Barnett Bank of South Florida (assets: $3.5 billion...
...dust jacket reproduces part of a mural by Thomas Hart Benton: City Activities with Subway. A woman stands while four men sit, ignoring her. One reads a tabloid whose back-page headline blares: BANKER'S LOVE NEST. What is wrong with this picture? The paper, of course: the last page of a tabloid always reports sports; it is the front page that broadcasts scandal. This quirky distortion of actuality echoes the work within. Ilka Weissnix is a Viennese greenhorn entering post-World War II America with a few sentences of English, an open face and beautiful legs. She soon encounters...