The fact that bank shares rose in response to the Basel announcement will add to cynics' suspicions that the banks have been given too much time.
This theory an anachronism some might say has been eroded by technology and the fact that bank records and moneys in accounts are now accessible system-wide by any branch.
In fact a bank with a leverage ratio of infinity run by individuals with god-like knowledge of the true risks of lending would be safer than a bank run by mortals whose leverage ratio is tiny.
"These mistakes stemmed from the fact that Bank of Scotland had an inadequate mortgage records system meaning they could not identify which of those 250, 000 customers were subject to a cap on their standard variable rate, " said Tracey McDermott, the FSA's director of enforcement and financial crime.
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"There has been a misconception here that the government put a gun to Bank of America to do the deal, when in fact it was Bank of America that put the gun to the government, " he said to Lewis.
Beijing has to drop deposit rates when it cuts lending rates to maintain bank margins, and that is in fact what the central bank did on Thursday, reducing the benchmark one-year rate for deposits by 25 basis points.
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The fact that the Bank seems to have agreed to expose itself to some private credit risk is significant.
Nevertheless, the fact that the Bank does less harm today does not mean that it plays a useful role.
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That's despite the fact that the Bank of England is supposed to be in charge of monetary policy now, not the Chancellor.
Such thoughts are bolstered by business and consumer surveys that are unremittingly gloomy, and by the fact that the Bank now clearly believes that demand is slowing sharply.
So the tech corp. crowd was hoping the Supreme Court would reverse the Ninth Circuit and rule that Denise Edwards could not in fact sue her bank for violating the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, since she suffered no harm.
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Denis Verdini, a national co-ordinator for the PdL, continues to enjoy the prime minister's support, despite the fact that the bank he headed until July has been placed in special administration, with regulators reporting irregularities and potential conflicts of interest.
Regarded as a cost center, it typically receives little investment and less attention Even in the JPMorgan blowup, attention has focused on risk management and controls, not on the fact that the bank apparently could not determine its losses for several weeks.
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HSBC's ROE was 8.4 per cent, well short of the target 12-15 per cent range, and its worsened cost-income ratio was 62.8 per cent, compared with the 48-50 per cent target, reflecting the fact that the bank still has restructuring work to complete.
WikiLeaks has yet to confirm that Bank of America is in fact the major U.S. bank that Assange referenced in my November interview with him, though he told IDG News in 2009 that he possessed a five gigabyte hard drive from Bank of America.
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In fact, that central bank selling near the lows drove gold down to levels it may not otherwise have seen at its low in 2001.
The fact that the Cypriot bank holiday has been extended until next week is telling the market how far apart all three are from an agreeable plan.
And nobody in fact, no central bank anywhere on the planet has the experience of successfully navigating a return home from the place in which we now find ourselves.
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"We have to address the fact that a bad bank in one country can undermine good banks in every country, and that multibillion-dollar markets still exist outside the supervisory net, " Brown said.
The fact that the central bank's overnight borrowing window has remained popular with jittery lenders has emphasized how reticent they are to lend to consumers and businesses (See "Banks Still Hoarding Cash").
The fact that the West Bank was home to the major biblical sites the old city of Jerusalem, the tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem added to the sensation of a divine guiding hand.
In fact, the World Bank was cited in a National Geographic article earlier this year forecasting that for the first time ever, more people in the world will be classified as middle class than poor in 2022.
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So, when a note pops open on a person's computer screen from Henry Paulson at Goldman Sachs, there is no doubting the fact that the investment bank's chief executive is on the other end waiting for a reply.
Consolidating everything, the only interest cost associated with the outstanding ELA debts stem from the fact that the Central Bank incurred a large Intra-Eurosystem liability via the TARGET2 system when the IBRC depositors and bond investors were paid off and moved their money abroad.
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In fact, the Swiss Central Bank did just that last week by reducing interest rates on its bonds.
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In other states an employer may simply bank on the fact that most parents won't want to send their children to a company-run school.
This decline comes despite the fact that the European Central Bank seemed encouraged by how well the Spanish and Italian bond auctions were received.
The investment bank, in fact, also still existed, albeit with billion of dollars in mortgage bonds that had gone bad as the subprime crisis worsened.
In fact, Ex-Im Bank has actually returned an average of nearly a billion dollars each year since fiscal 2008 to the Treasury, representing income in excess of operating expenses, so it really is self-sustaining.
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