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Solution to help store and load money in National Identity and Resident Cards and use them as a mode of payment besides credit and debit cards

To provide strategic financial PR services

Attorneys in the newly formed group are located in Dallas, Houston, Austin and Fort Worth

To incorporate measures of origination quality, maturation effects and environmental factors into analytical tests

It has also appointed a director for CDS Development

To give credit risk managers the ability to respond to changing market and consumer behavior

To provide corporate finance and restructuring advice to companies in special situations

To help clients hone their investing skills

By appointing two managing directors

Expected to enhance Direct-Bill Commission Statement Download functionality, to streamline direct billing with carriers

To improve sales and agency distribution channel relationships

Fidelity's brokerage clients are expected to gain access to Deutsche Bank's new issues

To better leverage its servicing assets

To capture a larger share of China's growing financial services sector

Surging corporate stock and bond sales are forcing the bank to relook at investment banking