There are ways to enhance consumer protections without limiting the ability of banking regulators to use their considerable resources and powers over banks to directly enforce consumer compliance in banks.
Bahr and Hickenlooper present the extraordinary spectacle of a filmmaker at the peak of his clout, banking everything on his ability to pull inspiration out of the fire, and getting scorched.
This undermines the ability of the banking system to provide credit to sectors which might contribute to an economic recovery.
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The bank bailouts of 2008 continue to bring the broad economy harm, all the while restraining the ability of the banking system to get back on its feet.
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However, the banking industry was less enthusiastic about the proposals, saying lingering uncertainty about the future shape of the banking industry threatened banks' ability to lend and to compete.
But Republican participations is crucial to the deal and the Blair government is banking on Mr Trimble's ability to rephrase his demands.
The government of Cyprus has already made an "exceptionally urgent" request for funds to recapitalize its banks, and markets are now worried about Italy's debt, which limits Rome's ability to deal with banking problems.
Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King, who also chairs the group of regulators from 27 countries that agreed the deal, said that the phased introduction would mean the new standards would not "hinder the ability of the global banking system to finance a recovery".
Bank of America, one of the most acquisitive U.S. banks of the last 15 years, has nearly reached the legal limits of its ability to grow by branch banking acquisitions.
Independent auditor Deloitte warned that a failure to secure new banking facilities "would cast doubt on its ability to continue".
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Citi's troubles reflect a lack of confidence in the ability of the U.S. banking system to rebound anytime soon.
Moody's downgraded 28 Spanish banks, reflecting the agency's view that Madrid's ability to provide support to the local banking system has declined.
This transaction will allow Presidential to offer additional financing products to our clients, as well as the ability to fully service their financing and banking needs over their entire life cycle.
The problem with this is that Karas, not a notably distinguished banker, financial regulator or economist, has in his power the ability to darn near kill off European banking and with it swathes of the European economy.
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This could have destroyed HSBC's relatively small US retail banking business and - more importantly - severely impaired its ability to conduct business anywhere in the world: the reputational damage of being blacklisted in America would have been terrible and, without access to dollars from the New York Fed, HSBC's vast international wholesale operations would have been in trouble.
Also, the central bank and the (fractional reserve) banking system would face a nearly irresistible temptation to use their ability to create money to hold the deflation at bay as long as possible.
Because of the imperative of maintaining high levels of capital in the banking part of the Co-Op, the group's ability to invest in its important supermarkets and other services could be restricted.
When Wells launched its mobile banking in 2007, the bank built out its services, including the ability to do wire payments through the cell phone.
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As I've written before, this has the ability, on any given day, to provoke a drain of liquidity from the Greek banking system, forcing the Bank of Greece to ask for levels of Emergency Liquidity Assistance that the ECB just cannot countenance.
"The telecommunications standards arm of the UN has quietly endorsed the standardisation of technologies that could give governments and companies the ability to sift through all of an internet user's traffic - including emails, banking transactions, and voice calls - without adequate privacy safeguards, " the group said in a statement.
The crisis of confidence in the ability of eurozone countries with huge borrowings to repay all they owe has already deteriorated into a banking crisis - whose most serious manifestation to date has been talks to rescue the big Franco-Belgian bank Dexia.
One could analogize the U.S. banking system that is frantically looking for a way to plug revenues holes caused by new regulations that limit their ability to extract historic fees from consumers like overdrafts.
But banking stocks recovered from Tuesday's slide, a day in which investors once again turned skeptical about the ability of Spain and other heavily indebted members of the 17-nation euro bloc to implement austerity measures and manage their debt loads.
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