Reports from the finance agency specified that the delisting had nothing to do with current or future company performance.

It would also create an independent tribunal to hear business and commercial tax appeals, now heard by the same finance agency that assesses the tax.

Since 2001, the Finance Agency is organizing the borrowing of the German state and its debt management.

Also, the law would allow banks and other finance agencies to issue mortgage-backed securities that offset the risk of lending money to individual borrowers.

State legislators who supported the legislation said that they expect it will enable the finance agency to offer taxable bonds in foreign capital makets.

Nichols called a press conference on the steps of the Capitol and accused me of using the finance agency's funds to carry on affairs with five women.

By combining these bond issues, the finance agency, known as the M.I.F.A., expects to arrange financings of $100 million or more.

The creation of a finance agency was part of a platform announced today by Bertie Ahern, the prime minister, as he called an election for May 17.

Issuance of the bonds was divided between the city Housing Development Corporation and the state Housing Finance Agency.

Most State Housing Finance Agencies offer Downpayment Assistance Programs, including forgivable grants of $8000 or more.