As with UBS, the investigation of Credit Suisse concerns historical private banking services provided on a cross-border basis to U.S. persons.

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In the lawsuit, filed in December in the probate division of Superior Court in Washington, the heirs also contend they lost access to Chevy Chase's private banking services when the company's affiliated thrift was sold three years ago, leaving the trust company standing on its own.

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Lots of its emerging-market staff sell private-banking services, which should suffer less.

ECONOMIST: Investment banking

The Company's products and services include residential lending, commercial real estate lending, personal lending, private business banking, deposit services, trust services, brokerage services and investment management services.

FORBES: First Republic Bank

First Republic Bank and its subsidiaries provide private banking, private business banking and private wealth management, including investment, trust and brokerage services.

FORBES: First Republic Bank

The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private banking, private equity, custody and transaction services and retail and middle market financial services.

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There is no real acceptance of the very Anglo-Saxon idea that banking services are something that only the private sector does or should do.

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For over two decades, First Line Capital, LLC, a boutique international investment banking firm, has been faithfully providing comprehensive services to public and private companies internationally.

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Merrill's individual investors business, the Private Client Services division, won't hold back its stock price when investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and other institutional broker-dealers snapback amid a pickup in capital markets and merger and acquisition activity.

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