But the savings bank remained a very big buyer of Japanese government bonds, holding about 30% of the entire stock, and of bonds issued by the same government agencies which the savings bank used to fund directly.

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The scam was that Tuya convinced bank employees to redirect money from savings accounts to fund her loans to others.

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Countrywide is moving all its mortgage origination activities under the umbrella of its federal savings bank, which would allow it to use deposits to fund loans, as well as let it borrow through the Federal Home Loan Bank system.

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Individual investors select shares with the highest return and track record, consumers select the bank with the best rates, your pension fund invests your savings in companies with the highest risk-return trade-off, and so on.

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If you want to be absolutely, 100 percent safe, and you want to not make quite as much as you would make in a money market mutual fund, you would put in, like, in a bank savings account.

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Morgan, an American bank which owns the American Century mutual-fund group, to sell funds bearing its own name through savings banks in Germany and France.

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It would be able to borrow money, with a government guarantee, either from the Bank of Japan or from the finance ministry's trust-fund bureau, which manages postal-savings money.

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