The amount of deposit money created matches the amount of government securities taken off the market if banks fail to make use of their new reserves resulting from their new deposits, which has been the case lately.
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The collapse of Argentina's financial system led many Argentines to withdraw their deposits from Uruguay's banks.
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In Britain some local-government bodies are reportedly moving their deposits from Santander's British bank, even though it is locally capitalised and supervised.
The Chinese are also involved in a separate planned natural gas pipeline project that will run westward from their British Columbia shale deposits to Vancouver for export to China.
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Meanwhile large banks in Germany, Switzerland and Britain have more cash than they can put to good use as corporate customers shift their deposits from weaker countries or smaller banks.
While IndyMac had a couple of branches, by and large their deposits came from advertising, much more hot money.
When dealers purchase the debt, cash shifts from their reserves accounts to Treasury deposits at the Fed, where they remain, unspent.
To fill their funding holes from fleeing deposits much of this borrowing has come from the Long Term Refinancing Operation or LTRO.
Unlike most banks, which get their money from customers making deposits into savings accounts, Northern Rock is built around its mortgage business.
It has warned national regulators about policies that prevent banks from moving capital and deposits freely between their operations in multiple European countries.
The European Commission's Mr. Barnier also said his group was looking at options for structural changes in the banking sector, including the Volcker rule and the recent Vickers report in the U.K., which recommended ring-fencing, or roping off, bank's domestic retail deposits from the rest of their operations.
Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks that take their deposits to the safety of the drugs on sale in the local pharmacy, or their rights to refunds when goods are faulty.
To contend with this issue, 44% of property owners and managers told us that they were reducing security deposits to fill their vacancies, an increase from the 35% of owners and managers in 2009 who were using this tactic.
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Up until now, most condo developers have relied on a combination of their own personal wealth, investments from equity funds and buyer deposits up as much as 80% of the purchase price of the units to finance construction of their projects.
The government is encouraging individuals to provide for their own pensions, prompting a shift from low-return bank deposits towards higher-return equities and savings plans.
The fear is that once the unprecedented capital controls - which are in place for an indefinite time - are lifted, the wealthiest will rush to move their deposits abroad, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports from Nicosia.
At the Gamba protected-area complex, on the coast of Gabon, patrolling rangers make daily logs of deposits of flotsam from the industrial world that has arrived on their remote Atlantic beaches at the same time as they record the comings and goings of the local leatherback turtles.
Their strategy was so successful that soon they were sucking deposits away from bricks-and-mortar banks across Europe.
The ring-fence will require banks to put their High Street banking activities - such as taking deposits and lending to UK businesses - into a separate subsidiary from their riskier investment banking operations.
This meets demands from Indian states that they should have the benefit of adding some value after their iron-ore deposits have been mined, while also allowing down-stream processes to be tailored to meet local requirements.
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Unlike banks, which have two-thirds of their liabilities in sticky, low-cost deposits, GE gets most of its funding from commercial paper and bonds that can become expensive or inaccessible in a crisis.
The most extreme danger would be if Spain and Italy are cut off from international markets and bank depositors across the euro-zone periphery start to empty accounts, fearing their deposits might be next to be redenominated in national currencies.
For lenders suffering from a glut of deposits, low interest rates and weak economies in the West, Asia is crucial for their growth.
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