This quest for i-grade ratings will drive more deals like Crestwood-Inergy, according to bankers.
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"The new rules won't make a big difference to bankers based in London, " he said.
They would not be available to bankers who would lend that money to businesses.
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That kind of rhetoric makes him a hero to bankers fighting prudent regulations and international capital standards.
Having stock will allow Wasserstein to offer lucrative pay incentives to bankers he is trying to poach from other firms.
He remembers the days when roughly 5000 people came to Bankers Life Fieldhouse to watch the Fever play.
Paterson has been delighted with the program which winds up with presentations by vendors to bankers on March 20.
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In France and Germany, where customers have traditionally turned to bankers for financial advice, this has been relatively easy.
This includes National Westminster , which in 1997 off-loaded parts of its troubled equities division to Bankers Trust New York .
But he knew how to talk to bankers and analysts, and could charm investors who were still unfamiliar with the exchange.
The bankers were only doing what comes naturally to bankers-trying to profit on the spread between the cost of money and what they can charge.
Indianapolis 500 pole winner Ed Carpenter made the short trip from the track to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, where he is a regular attendee.
To suggest that there might be flaws in this system was like suggesting now to bankers that they do not deserve a bailout.
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Which is why, when I talk to bankers and investors, they regard all this fuss about whether France keeps its AAA as largely academic.
He said his party was "in nobody's pocket", while arguing other parties had served "vested interests" - from unions to bankers, to long applause from the hall.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama joined those Congressional Democrats asking for limits to be placed on personal benefits given to bankers, whose unwise loans contributed to the crisis.
Why would the prop trading issue be expendable to bankers?
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Well I've talked widely to bankers, regulators and officials today.
With Americans already packing an average of five charge cards, Saunders has been appealing to bankers like Davis by making his plastic smarter and thus more valuable in attracting customers.
But everyone can grasp that using taxpayers' money to pay a large bonus, or a fat pension, to bankers who have crashed their banks is a hard sell during a recession.
"Maybe you're talking to bankers, " Mr. Sarkozy snapped back.
On another call, senior Goldman technology banker Andy Fisher told Mr. Ebersman it wasn't clear how big investors would react to such a price increase, according to bankers knowledgeable about the call.
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Lloyds has already initiated the sale process, with a view - according to bankers - to announcing the buyer in the autumn, although for regulatory reasons the sale won't complete till 2013.
Peter Kellner of YouGov, a pollster, points out that when polled on values issues such as attitudes to bankers or to gay marriage, Conservative voters may split 60:40 and Labour voters 40:60.
The concerns of some may be eased by Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, who fleshed out plans to shake up banking regulation in a speech to bankers on June 18th.
The EU Parliament has just issued a draft law stating that banks may only pay a bonus to bankers of up to one times annual base salary (twice if the shareholders vote to allow such).
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So you can see why the Governor of the Bank of England was a touch gloomy about the outlook for British and European banks in his speech to bankers last week at the Mansion House.
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People, especially youth (for whom unemployment rates are above 51%), find it difficult to understand there is no money for healthcare or universities, but enough to go around when it comes to rescue banks or pay severance packages to bankers who have ruined their companies.
And as luck would have it, the disclosure comes on the day that the bosses of the UK's biggest banks troop in to see the Chancellor, to discuss what commitments they can make to increase their lending to small businesses and decrease their bonus payouts to bankers.
"These are just a fraction of what we as consumers spend on soft drinks each year which is almost half a trillion dollars - the total required for species and sites is less than half of what is paid out in bonuses to bankers on Wall street's biggest investment banks, " he explained.
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