If that weren't true, thrift institutions would have 100 percent of the business and they don't.

The trust agency would not break down how much went to each thrift institution.

A second quiet area is small banks and thrift institutions.

Some banks and thrift institutions said that current interest rates are now where they should be.

Four of the thrift institutions have been closed by Federal regulators.

Many Texas thrift institutions have suffered losses in the last 18 months.

The transaction is the most expensive for a single thrift institution.

The group was involved in the conversion of thrift institutions from stock to mutual form.

This had been a common practice during the 1950's and 60's, when the growth of thrift institutions was incremental.

The plan would eliminate the distinction between banks and thrift institutions.

"Banks and thrift institutions, in particular, are extremely technology intensive."

Over time, he said, banks and thrift institutions will fail in alarming numbers.

And 515 other thrift institutions with assets of $255 billion, he estimates, should also be counted among the walking dead.

Thrift institutions, as savings and loans are often known, have been hit much harder than banks.

The founders wanted to create a thrift institution for the island's poor to encourage savings.

This is by no means the first time a politician has found himself the center of dispute involving thrift institutions.

No prominent banks or thrift institutions in Texas were listed among the defendants.

Some 20 percent of all thrift institutions are unprofitable.

Thrift institutions will have until Oct. 1 to begin complying.

Both involved proposed acquisitions of thrift institutions in rural markets by banks.

And the plan requires special forbearance for thrift institutions owned by members of minority groups.

A spokesman for the thrift institution said that Glenfed would have no further comment.

He says he saw the part-time post as a form of community service, a way to give the growing thrift institution an outside voice.

Ownership of a bank or a thrift institution is a necessary pre-requisite to any participation.

It was a holding company for the nation's second largest thrift institution and California's fourth largest bank.