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Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes - Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy. [CNN Most Popular]

Cops to IndyMac customers: Remain calm or face arrest - Police ordered angry customers lined up outside an IndyMac Bank branch to remain calm or face arrest Tuesday as they tried to pull their money on the second day of the failed institution's federal takeover. [dailynews.com]

iirc, swiss law makes it a crime for banks and/or bankers to release private banking information, with possible jail terms for violators. It's serious shit over there, hence why swiss bank numbered accounts are sought over. That's old school anyways, all the new wave tax shelters are in the caymans. Silly IRS. The trick is, if you are looking for offshore protection, to make damn sure you do not use a foreign bank that has a branch in the US. Besides, these bloodsucking extortionist are seeking information on a mere 20 billion? That is just over a months worth of borrowing the government takes part in to fund it's illegal wars. Right now war spending is averaging 340 million per day. Thats enough to give every person in the US a million dollars.....every fucking day!

IRS seeks fortunes hidden in Swiss banks - The Internal Revenue Service is taking the unprecedented step of seeking Swiss bank records in search of what it suspects could be up to $20 billion worth of assets hidden by U.S. taxpayers. [CNN Top Stories]

US bank loses unencrypted data on 4.5m people - Couriers lost magnetic tapes containing the personal details of 4.5 million people who had dealt with the Bank of New York Mellon it has emerged. The incident happened three months ago, but has only surfaced after legal papers were filed in the state of Connecticut. [Theregister.co.uk]

Ninja Mask Links Woman To Robberies - DNA from a discarded ninja mask has linked a 55-year-old woman to several bank robberies in the Ocala area. [Local6.com Orlando]

Police Say Man in Wheelchair Robbed Bank - Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle - an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford Shopping Center late this afternoon with a black handgun. [Seattletimes.com]

Police Seek Peek-a-Boo Bandit Stealing Bank Information - A high-tech thief is using stolen bank information to wipe out people's accounts. Oviedo police released surveillance pictures of the man believed to be using a device called a skimmer to rip people off. [WFTV 9 Orlando]

Man Sits Down Outside Bank After Allegedly Robbing It - A suspected bank robber was jailed, Tuesday, thanks to some quick police work. Police arrested the man soon after he left the Washington Mutual Bank in Orlando. VIDEO: Police Find Suspect Calmly Sitting Outside Bank [WFTV 9 Orlando]

Wielding Fake Bomb, Man In Dress Robs Bank - Wearing a shoulder-length wig and a dress, the man walked into a bank with a message - he had a bomb and didn't mind using it. [Tampa Tribune]