Union Bank of California, the nation's 27th biggest bank and the main unit of UnionBanCal Corp.
Bank of America is the nation's largest consumer bank, but it doesn't want to act like one.
Blanketing the nation, the bank has more domestic outlets (5, 700) than its two largest competitors--five times as many as Citi and twice as many as JPMorgan Chase.
Yet a number of what might be called realists at smaller Swiss private banks aren't convinced Swiss pols will stick up for the nation's bank secrecy and traditions this time.
Their tool kits are noticeably lacking in immediate responses to a crisis that affects not only one, but each and every euro zone nation that has bank exposure to troubled debt.
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Exactly what is most crucial in the process of nation-building the Bank's experts do not say.
So the Fed, the nation's central bank, took action recently to save the economy from recession by lowering the interest rate.
Cyprus is a small nation but news of bank runs at Bank of Cyprus and Laiki Bank spread like wildfire, bringing down global markets.
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On June 29 the nation's largest bank announced it had struck the second-biggest legal settlement in American history, trailing only the 1998 tobacco master settlement.
As both the nation's central bank and a financial regulator, the Federal Reserve must be well prepared to make constructive contributions to the coming national debate on the future of the financial system and financial regulation.
By the sheer strength of his character and force of his personality, Morgan pulled other bankers together to confront two major depressions, in 1893 and 1907, at the time when the nation had no central bank that could do the job.
"The nation's largest bank holding companies have continued to improve their ability to withstand an extremely adverse hypothetical economic scenario and are collectively in a much stronger capital position than before the financial crisis, " the US central bank said in a statement.
Soon this became the norm and gradually virtually every nation had its own central bank.
But as it unfolds, China has already become a middle income nation, according to World Bank standards.
Instead, he took control of Planters Development Bank, the nation's biggest private lender to small and midsize companies.
Chairman and Chief Executive James Dimon said Tuesday the bank, the nation's largest by assets, is "a battle ship, " with strong liquidity and capital.
He parlayed a computer leasing business into a 150-year-old insurance company, and in 1969, when he was still in his 20s, made a bid for Chemical Bank, then the sixth-largest commercial bank in the nation.
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Recently disappointing economic news in the 17-nation eurozone fueled expectations that the bank may cut interest rates further from the record low of 0.75%.
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The idea that a company with more money in the bank than any European nation (quite possibly all of them put together) might be short of resources is also amusing.
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Soon, the danger is not to a bank or even to a nation but to the entire system.
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An exchange of ambassadors could lead to Vietnam getting Most-Favored Nation trading status and Export-Import Bank loans, critical for buying high-priced items such as aircraft.
In 2009, the lender took on the largest economy in the region, Indonesia, when it bought Bank Internasional Indonesia, that nation's eighth-largest lender by assets.
The move by Weber now leaves the opening in the European Central Bank to be taken by a central bank leader from another eurozone nation.
Several of the nation's financial giants, including Bank of America, Allied Financial, JPMorgan Chase and GMAC, have halted foreclosures, although Bank of America and GMAC announced they are resuming the process.
In response, the nation's largest private lenders, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Sallie Mae and Citibank, pledged that they would not pay colleges to list them as "preferred lenders" for unsuspecting students.
It has 10, 000 ATMs, acquired in May of 2000, giving it the nation's largest network after Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
The bank targets borrowers in California, the nation's default epicenter.
But if UBS appears too eager to turn over all the names, it could run into resistance from Switzerland's own bank privacy laws, on which the nation's wealth has been built.
Sitting out the credit boom has helped make Beal Bank one of the healthiest banks in the nation.
The whole wealth of the nation would be in the hands of the 'Tonnage Bank, ' and the Bank would be in the hands of the Sovereign.
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