BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Unknown assailants attacked two bank vehicles -- one filled with coins, the other carrying security guards -- as the convoy headed to Baghdad's central bank earlier this week, Iraqi police officials said Wednesday.
The crux of the problem is that two-thirds of bank deposits are in dollars, as are most loans.
These included the repeal of two populist anti-bank laws, and, especially, watertight measures to cut public spending, particularly by provincial governors.
The reason any of this matters is that what is being sold is largely a small-business bank - almost two-thirds of its loans are to businesses, especially smaller ones - and right now one of the alleged great scandals of the British economy is the great shortage of choice for small businesses in the provision of vital finance.
There are even one or two - such as giving the Bank of England independence, cutting benefits to the disabled and single parents - that Tory governments probably would not have dared introduce.
At the time, as a junior member with little clout, Ryan was a reliable Republican vote for policies that were key in causing enormous federal budget deficits: sweeping tax cuts, a costly prescription-drug entitlement for Medicare, two wars, the multibillion-dollar bank-bailout legislation known as TARP.
Twenty-two branches and sub-offices of the Ulster Bank are due to close across Ireland, the bank has confirmed.
The shadow chancellor announced two U-turns - on Bank of England independence and the minimum wage - within days of taking on the role.
According to Christopher Redl of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an American investment bank, two-thirds of a typical Japanese car is still made in high-cost Japan.
Israelis are discussing a long-dormant dream that Jordan, whose population is two-thirds Palestinian, will re-absorb the West Bank convenient for Israel, but possibly lethal for the Hashemite kingdom.
The raid resulted in the arrest of two officials in the bank-inspection division on charges of corruption, and it was those charges for which Mr Mitsuzuka so nobly took responsibility.
The Nikkei Stock Average rose to 12632.20, the biggest rise in nearly two months, as investors awaited the results of the Bank of Japan's two-day policy meeting that started Wednesday, to see whether fresh easing measures to spur the stagnant economy will meet market expectations.
The big night was Friday night-I'd watch my parents play "Russian Bank, " a two-handed card game, while listening to One Man's Family, the radio soap opera.
The shipping-container mall, with bank branches, fashion shops and a two-story cafe, has become a vibrant though temporary new city heart amid the rubble and din of heavy machinery demolishing condemned buildings.
The IMF estimates that nearly two-thirds of the foreign central bank reserves are in dollars.
Waterhouse, the industry number two, owned by Toronto-Dominion bank, is ahead in offering bank accounts that carry federal deposit insurance.
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank priced the two-tranche issue this week with yields of 2.81% for the eight-year loan and 3.22% for the 12-year loan.
On the other hand, the Obama administration's increased pressure on Israel concerning the "two-state solution" and West Bank settlements demonstrates Israel's growing distance from Washington.
The two-year bond yield -- one of the maturities the central bank could target -- has plunged from a peak of more than 7 per cent last year to 2.59 per cent yesterday.
"The right direction for Indonesia is universal or supermarket banking, " says Okkie, who notes that two other corporate-oriented players, Bank Niaga (No. 324) and Bank Bira (No. 427), are going the retail banking route.
The selection process puts socially defined characteristics, such as the outsized reputation of an executive like Mr Dimon, ahead of relevant practical skills and experience (Mr Dimon had little knowledge of retail banking or credit-card operations, two of Bank One's biggest and, in the second case, most problematic businesses).
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Late Friday, yields on everything from two-year to 30-year government debt were higher than before the bank announced its easing plan.
Citigroup, for example, is in the final stages of a gruelling two-year battle to buy perhaps 20-25% of Guangdong Development Bank, a troubled institution (though some rivals also have an eye on it).
Both players have won two tickets to any game in the world - plus accommodation and travel for two, courtesy of the Bank of Scotland Premier League.
The World Bank estimates that over two-thirds of the overall benefits from Doha's barrier-lowering would come from freer farm trade.
It has been three years since Bank of America and two-and-a-half years since Citigroup paid back the bulk of their bailout funds.
UNRWA, founded in 1949, has been stretched because of the chaos in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the two Israeli-controlled bits of a would-be Palestinian state.
It was largely the discovery of Martin Ravallion, a researcher at the bank, and two co-authors, who noticed that the national poverty lines of half-a-dozen developing countries clustered around that amount.
So far this year two big UK banks - Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland - have started issuing card readers as extra security devices to customers who use their online bank accounts.
Analysts also cited continued central-bank buying of gold after news that the Bank of Korea bought 25 metric tons over the past two months, its first purchases since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
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