Q: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
While many banks continued to pay the same rates in 2001 that they paid in 2000, others reduced the rates they pay. In fact, the average IOLTA interest rate paid in 2000 by all of the participating banks was 1.6 percent.
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While many banks continued to pay the same rates in 2001 that they paid in 2000, others reduced the rates they pay.