Almost any bank with a lot of retail business except for sub-prime lending and perhaps credit cards can expect its minimum capital to fall.

ECONOMIST: Bothersome Basel

"Our bank has to survive doing retail business, " says Kim.

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After warning of falling profits, and in the wake of a mix-up in March in the pricing of some options, it is being forced by unhappy shareholders to reconsider its strategy of building a global investment bank in tandem with its retail business.

ECONOMIST: Those two capitalisms, again

Instead of trying to expand into investment banking, a business with juicy margins in good times but horrible losses in bad, Erste Bank has instead concentrated on expanding its retail banking business into central and eastern Europe, where it has subsidiaries stretching from Austria to Ukraine.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Boosting its retail banking business in Europe, Deutsche Bank will buy the banking operations of France's Banque Worms for an undisclosed sum.

ECONOMIST: Sweet deals

With home-related lending making up more than 90% of its interest income, the bank has been trying to diversify, notably by expanding its retail business through a rapid programme of branch openings.

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It's sold on its retail business in the United Arab Emirates to Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.

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It wants lots of profitable retail business (which, together with SocGen, France's most efficient retail bank, it thinks it could create).

ECONOMIST: French banking

Analysts were divided about how Mitchell's death would affect the bank's strategy of building further on its profitable investment banking business and raising the profile of its retail arm.

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