Assume you are Jack (or Jacqueline) Anderson, a policy consultant for North Information Services (NIS). Your firm specializes in lobbying Congress for banks and financial institutions that want to protect their economic interests. Mr. North, President and C.E.O. of NIS asked you to prepare a brief for one of their major clients, an international bank, on the major issues that Congress will address this next term

What are the current major issues facing domestic banks and their regulators?

Because the client is an international bank, what are the current major issues facing international banks and their regulators?

How might these issues affect Mr. North's international bank client?