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program is becoming popular with business owners who want to protect their cash flow and keep their lines of credit open; we are making the process easier for them by offering rapid pre-approval on leasing lines of credit. 

To serve our customers who conduct business outside of the United States, we introduced a package of international trade services that are designed to help them to compete in the global marketplace. These include import and export letters of credit, documentary collection, international wire service, and foreign exchange services. 

Existing business products and services experienced growth in 2002 as well. Working in partnership with retail banking and commercial lending, our merchant services area added more than 150 new businesses to the list of Washington Trust customers who use our merchant credit card processing services. This new business helped us to realize gains in merchant processing revenues, spurring our plans to expand the merchant services product line in 2003. 

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