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Number of Americans who bank online today, according to the Gartner Group: 27 million

Percentage who will bank online in 2004: 41 million

Number of American households that pay their bills online today: 8 mill ion

Number that will he paying their bills online by 2004: 27 million

Source: Gartner Group.

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Number of banking mergers that have occurred in the United States since 1980, according to the Federal Reserve Board: 8.000

Value of acquired assets: $2.4 trillion

Percentage by which the control over aggregate U.S. bank deposits by the 10 largest banks has increased since 1980: from 47 to 11

Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/staffstudies/174/ss174.pdf See Federal Reserve study, Bank Mergers and Banking Structure in the United States, pg. 36.

Percentage of Americans who say they would use an ATM for transactions such as wiring money or purchasing movie tickets, according to a survey of 1,000 Americans: 01

Percentage who said they would use an ATM for such transactions if the cost to do so was 25 cents to 50 cents: 70

Percentage who said they would do so if it cost them around $1.50: 35

Source: Dove consulting.

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Percentage of US. companies that say that employees take three or more days of paid unscheduled absences annually: 56

Dollars lost to absenteeism per...