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banks and thrifts or their holding companies listed onNASDAQ, excluding the 50 largest U.S banks by asset size kansas city t bones . Also excluded arebanks that have an international specialization and those banks that have acredit-card specialization, as screened by the American Bankers Associationbased on the most recent data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation . Asecurity must also have a market capitalization of at least $200 million and athree-month average daily dollar trading volume of at least $500 thousand andmust meet certain operating history, solvency, and financial statementrequirements . As of June 8, 2009, there were 96 securities that comprised theIndex .