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• 91% of banks and savings institutions now offer ATM services, with almost 89 % of them levying some type of charge for using their machines.

By Bill Wipprecht, CPP. In the late 1980's, this country experienced a dramatic increase in the number of bank robberies culminating at an all-time record in 1992 with 9,531.

Many banks wonder how the golden dollar the U.S. Mint introduced a year and a half ago is faring: are consumers using them or simply collecting them?

"...it is estimated that only about 13 percent of U.S. households currently use the Internet to bank..." Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke Jr., The Arizona Republic, 6/11/01

• Cybercrime and corruption may cost more than a trillion dollars a year, with credit card fraud at the top at $400 million a year.

If you go by the statistics of a recent Bank Administration Institute study, banks had better start focusing their sales strategies on customer needs.

A year ago, this was the big news:

About $13.6 billion worth of $10 notes, and $8 billion worth of $5 notes are currently in circulation following the recent release of the redesigned bills. More than $500 billion worth of U.S.