The site has only limited sell-side information on the banks, no information on buyers and, rather crucially, in all but three cases no prices for available credits.
And with all the computing devices that store this information, banks have to protect it from those who aspire to steal it.
Following the deadline, HMRC will automatically receive information from banks in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man identifying all account holders.
Following the disclosure deadline in 2016, HMRC will automatically receive information from banks in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man identifying all account holders.
Choicepoint, a firm that verifies personal information for banks, business and governments, has also had problems, admitting that data on 145, 000 people had been compromised.
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Banking officials kept the information to themselves because their companies were part of a government-sponsored scheme designed to promote the sharing of security information between banks.
When the company discovers an exposed credit card number, it notifies Scotland Yard, which then sends the information to banks who presumably close the account and notify the credit card holder.
The court rejected this argument too, noting that the Miccosukee Tribe gave the information to the banks.
The financial crisis has prompted dozens of lawsuits over how the banks relayed information to investors.
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It is also helping set up cross-border supervisory colleges to share information about 30 global banks.
One of the problems is the lack of clear information, outside the banks and trading floors, about the credit derivatives market.
The most advanced markets for consumer finance, such as America, Britain and Canada, have credit bureaus through which banks share information about their customers.
Banks around the world are being whipsawed by the fact that much of the bank-funding market is opaque, and information produced by central banks can lag behind real-time events or be limited in detail.
The agency is gathering information from 11 major banks about their activities involving repos, an accounting technique that Lehman used to move billions of assets off its balance sheet each quarter end, and which the examiner claims deliberately masked the true nature of its leverage.
The Fed argued against disclosing the information because it might harm banks on the list.
Germany has put pressure on Swiss and Luxembourg banks to divulge information about Germans who are avoiding taxes.
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Banks have more information than the rating-agencies about their borrowers, particularly smaller ones.
The Web sites of many banks offer excellent information about educational financing, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo.
The Web sites of major banks offer excellent information on the wise use of credit, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup.
Britain's major banks now share information on attempted cyber-attacks and hold regular meetings with officials from the UK's secret listening post GCHQ, the Public Accounts Committee was told.
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The offending information, according to the banks, is a U.S. State Department cable obtained by WikiLeaks and published by the two Bulgarian journalists, which details the alleged money laundering and corrupt practices of the Bulgarian finance industry.
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It sometimes feels that way today: for while there is much statistical information published by the central banks, and while some are now even putting themselves up for ritual grillings by journalists, it's very hard to find a hard-edged discussion of the economic, political, diplomatic and strategic role of central banks within the current system.
Yes, many Americans have cheated by hiding income and assets in tax havens offshore, but they are now getting busted by the IRS. The U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will force foreign banks to divulge information regarding their U.S. clients, and many offshore tax cheats are considering the extended IRS voluntary disclosure program (see details below).
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If banks are right about economies of scale, and if management and information systems can keep pace, then why should banks not go on consolidating until only three or four or five of them are left, with three-quarters of the market between them, in a given country, or a given continent, or indeed the world?
For as long as they could, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, overseer and regulator par excellence of our national banks, coddled their flock and were loathe to give up any confidential information they stumbled across while looking at the big banks books and compliance records, over lunch.
Many banks use their own information-technology people to develop their online-banking service, which can be expensive.
Another charge accuses al Halabi of "executing a scheme" to obtain credit from seven banks by providing false information.
Even before the crisis, many argued banks were abusing these information asymmetries.
The issue that first came to light around LIBOR fixing was whether or not banks had given false information to create a false impression of their viability.
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Under the rules of the scheme, approved by the Treasury Department, information disclosed within the group of banks could not be turned over to the FBI or police.
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