In 11 of the region's countries, foreign banks account for over 60% of bank assets.
And second, release bank assets to be at the service of the real economy.
Bank reserves remained flat up until a few weeks ago even though total bank assets were growing.
Spreading bank assets continent-wide is thus desirable not only for would-be banking champions but also for the euro.
Japanese bank holdings of JGBs now account for 25% of bank assets, five times the developed world average.
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On concentration, the claim is that big bank assets constitute a larger portion of all bank assets than ever.
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In particular, the sum of the value of global stocks, bonds, and bank assets is 366% of the size of global GDP.
According to the new report, regulators have conflicting stories about how the nine firms, which represented about 75% of all U.S. bank assets, were chosen.
But the risk that the recent homeward flow of bank assets will ossify into a less efficient, less flexible cross-border banking system is real and growing.
However, payouts for the 24% with high balances would be less certain, with the level of returned money depending on the level of bank assets recovered.
Companies thus turned for loans to India's unfashionable state banks, which hold almost 70% of bank assets, rather than borrowing overseas or raising money on the stockmarket.
The steps here are first swap the remarked bank debt for equity shares in mutual funds while simultaneously selling the remarked bank assets to the mutual funds.
Yet the merger makes sense, in an industry dominated by the 27 big state banks, which together own four-fifths of bank assets and pocket 70% of the profits.
Mortgages themselves are probably only about 15% of bank assets.
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The intervention marks yet another reversal for Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, turning back to an approach similar to his original plan to use government money to shoulder troubled bank assets.
The foreign debts represent only 6% of total bank assets and the effect on these liabilities is mitigated by the dollar assets banks create with this funding through export-credit financing.
According to Barclays Capital, bank deleveraging could total 500 billion euros to a whopping 3 trillion euros, or up to 10% of eurozone bank assets, Forbes reported on Monday.
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According to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), even though community banks have only 20% of all bank assets, and hold less than 20% of total deposits (FDIC), they make almost 60% of small business loans.
Only in Brazil, where a lot of bank assets are still under government control, and where there are three large, healthy private Brazilian banks, is the share of banking assets under foreign control likely to remain relatively low.
In Central Europe, for instance, the share of total bank assets controlled by foreign banks has risen from less than 10% in 1994 to over 50% in 1999. (Foreign control is defined as foreigners owning more than 50% of the total equity in a bank).
Two banks went bust in 1965, leading to calls for depositors to be made good by the government (which would then recover what it could from the liquidation of bank assets), for the introduction of deposit insurance and the creation of a government-backed industrial bank.
The IMF also published an update to its Global Financial Stability Report said that risks to financial stability in the banking sector had increased in the second quarter of this year because of the continued slow global recovery and fears about the quality of bank assets in Europe.
At OneWest, formed by private-equity investors who bought IndyMac Bank assets and operations from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after its failure in 2008, a spokeswoman said the thrift is working with Mr. Brooks on a variety of foreclosure issues, adding that it has worked with him over the past year.
Now the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, behind Citigroup, Bank of America leads in deposits and is the finance realm's answer to Starbucks.
Bank of America, the No. 2 bank by assets, is not the only bank experimenting, the Journal reported.
Southeast Asia's largest bank by assets, secured an extra two months on its deadline to take over PT Bank Danamon, in what could amount to Indonesia's largest-ever foreign investment.
Last week, Wang Hongzhang , the Chairman of China Construction Bank, the second-ranked Chinese bank by assets, said in an interview that CCB is shopping for an acquisition, most likely a bank in Europe with an international presence.
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Other potential buyers of Thailand's fifth-largest bank by assets are in the background, the people said.
But NatWest, Britain's biggest bank by assets, is meanwhile facing a spot of bother.
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