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...third reason for bulking up, according to Francesco Giavazzi, a professor at Milan's prestigious Bocconi business school, is that corporate size really does matter in banking, especially since the biggest banks are turning into one-stop service centers. According to Giavazzi, European banks are starting to follow another American model by replacing their traditional business of lending money with such financial services as asset management. "Being good is not good enough in asset management," Giavazzi says. "A bank has to be the best to attract customers, and that requires technology and highly trained personnel, which all cost money...
...Size is so important that the prospect of creating a "champion of the European banking sector" prompted Banque Nationale de Paris to attempt to outmaneuver its rivals with a dramatic $37.6 billion offer to buy both Societe Generale and Paribas once their intended merger was announced, further jolting the French markets. If the BNP takeover ever goes through, it will create a bank with nearly $1 trillion in assets--Europe's largest--and give it an edge over the top U.S. bank, Citigroup, which currently has assets of $668.6 billion...
...hard time tickling funny bones, warming hearts and sparking reflection. And they've got big demographic and cultural problems. Grandma's cohort, traditionally an easy audience and big card buyers, is dying off. Female boomers buy cards, but they're quite diverse in sensibility and ethnicity, so the one-size-fits-all approach isn't working. Boomer men, much like their fathers, avoid card racks for all but the most mandatory occasion, like birthdays and major relationship screwups. For Generations X and Y, paper cards may as well be stone tablets...
...Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris. Foster is too much of a democrat to echo that sentiment, but it's a fact that his imagination runs naturally on the epic scale and that, more surprisingly, large size doesn't diminish the humanistic and spiritual qualities of his buildings...
...native language, HTML, and upload it to your website. Or add hypertext links to your Word file, or implant e-mail addresses without knowing how to write a line of code. And when Word converts your text to HTML, it saves your formatting so that headline-size fonts, italic text and so on show up online pretty much as they appeared on your screen. Likewise, if you save your files to a Web server, co-workers can grab, change and replace them automatically using the same program--Word, Excel, FrontPage--that created them...