JPMorgan resumed its stock repurchase activity at some point in the second quarter, but the bank really put things in high gear in the third quarter of the year.

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In 2008, prior to the credit crisis that kicked into high gear after the fall of Lehman Brothers in mid-September, the Central Bank responded to small business and individual demand to send capital abroad.

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Michael Woeller, the chief information officer of CIBC, a Canadian bank, just concluded a multimillion--dollar upgrade of 20, 000 PCs plus servers and networking gear at 1, 200 branch offices.

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