The regulators' new worries this year follow shifts in bank activities prompted by rising interest rates.

A criminal investigation was launched March 7, 2011 following "suspicious" bank activity.

The Federal Reserve makes it a policy not to comment on central bank activity.

Today, after two years of foreign bank activity, domestic banks still account for 91 percent of assets.

The separation is meant to create a regulatory firewall between commercial and investment bank activities.

Sherwood concedes that new limits on bank activity are inevitable.

The other Federal prosecutors are in cities where specific bank activities occurred.

The third pillar requires the bank activities to be transparent to the general public.

She is assisted by seven other managers in supervising the day-to-day bank activities.

Above all, this directive does not solve the problem of assessing bank activities.