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Fostering Retention in Adult Learners
 In the late 19th Century, German Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus established that humans forget 90% of what they learn in a class within thirty days[1]. Without some aid to help us retain what we learn, massive amounts of crucial information are lost. The most powerful and simple technique to improve retention is repetition.
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| Bank Training | Responding to the Compliance Training Needs of Small Banks
 Regulations Dominate Smaller Banks
In the past ten years, the scope and depth of the laws and regulations imposed on the financial services industry has exploded, placing a heavy burden on smaller institutions that find it increasingly difficult to meet compliance standards. Smaller banks tend to have less fiscal and physical resources to compete with larger banks and therefore struggle to find funding for accurate and efficient compliance training. The problem of teller turnover also exacerbat...
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| Captial Markets | Hedge Funds Flight to Quality
Volatility
in the equity markets, credit market dislocations and continued concerns about
market liquidity are prompting hedge funds to seek out prime brokerage and
custodial relationships with investment banks of sound financial health.
JP Morgan's acquisition of Bear
Stearns has given hedge fund mangers pause to think about the financial health
and balance sheet condition of their principal counterparties. The potential insolvency of first tier
investment ba...
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| Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning | Testing 1, 2, 3...New Federal Guidance on Business Continuity Planning
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and increased attention to the threat of a biological pandemic, the OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, OTS, NCUA, and FTC (the Agencies) consolidated five years of lessons learned and planning considerations into new federal guidance on effective business continuity planning.
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| Banking Rates | Online Deposit Rate Report: June 2008
 Online bank deposit rates have increased over
the last month with leading online banks like GMAC Bank, Countrywide Bank, and
E-Loan Bank increasing rates on either certificates of deposit, money market
accounts, savings accounts, or checking accounts. The conviction amongst
economists that the Fed is likely to be finished lowering interest rates in
2008 has given banks more confidence to increase their deposit rates with the
anticipation that interest rates in general are on the rise. Ra...
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Articles 
In this first part of a two-part vidcast, NJ Bank Marketing Association Board Member Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of