Collecting each bank's estimates of its rivals' borrowing rates would help identify any over-optimistic self-assessment.

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The food bank has been collecting donations in Birmingham city centre on Saturday.

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While most scholarships are in high demand, there are a few funds that sit in the bank unused, collecting interest.

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We were a little wary at the first when we heard about tying RFID so closely to our monies, and that Chase Bank blink card of ours has been collecting dust ever since it showed up in the mail, but the latest failings of RFID "security" have us running for the hills -- tin foil hat in tow.

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Other enforcement powers open to the SCS for collecting outstanding fines include arresting wages, deducting benefits and freezing bank accounts.

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The British Banking Authority (a bank lobbying group) has been in charge of collecting the rates from banks, and has done so without any official regulation.

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The appointment on August 30th of Antony Jenkins as chief executive suggests the bank hopes to focus again on the somewhat slower-paced business of collecting savings and making loans.

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Whatever is collected beyond that is dropped into a vault at the end of their shift and later transported to a bank. (For reasons of security, the Port Authority will not disclose the name of the bank or the amount of money dropped into the vault.) Beyond simply collecting cash, toll collectors are required to document every non-E-ZPass customer by pressing relevant buttons on their monitor.

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