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Banks, building societies and credit unions in Australia are collectively known as authorised deposit-taking institutions or ADIs, and are authorised as such under the Banking Act 1959 by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).
For all banks, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements has become the highest priority. Throughout the world, regulators and law enforcement authorities are imposing higher standards, searching more vigorously for violations and punishing violators more severely. Neither common practice nor the absence of prior regulatory criticism is a defence.
Alston & Bird LLP claims top honours in our study into the banking legal marketplace in Georgia.
Illinois is home to a significant pool of regional and local banking institutions, supplying the city’s mid-sized and large law firms with the full range of regional and international transactions. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase acquired Bank One, the largest financial institution headquartered in Chicago and the sixth largest in the US, leading to fears that the newly formed mega-bank would relocate to New York, creating a vacuum in the local market for investment and small business lending. Yet Bank One Chase remained faithful to its Chicago roots, to some extent allaying concerns about overconsolidation in the industry.
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