But many Dominicans doubt that punishment for the bank collapse will fit the crime.
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Downtown Midland looks frozen in time circa 1983, when the oil bust and bank collapse brought construction to a standstill.
Amid recession and the contagion of a debt default, bank collapse or Greek departure from the euro, Europe's single market would be in danger.
The government paid an average of 50.2 pence for each of its 90.6 billion RBS shares it bought to save the bank from collapse.
Those loans largely eliminated the risk that a bank would abruptly collapse due to liquidity problems.
Blame for the bank's collapse may even extend to its auditors, KPMG.
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He also made millions by selling some of his shares in the bank in 2006, well before the bank's collapse, the newspaper said.
Nada insists money did not go to terrorist organizations, tying the bank's collapse to large losses during the mid-1990s Southeast Asian economic slump.
Kabul Bank's founder and its former chairman Sherkhan Farnood and ex-CEO Khalilullah Ferozi are among several people charged in connection with the bank's collapse.
Still, it would not be a bad thing if the Bank of Commerce collapse led regulators to undertake a stricter watch on the entire industry.
The bank's collapse and subsequent bailout represents more than 5 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product, making it one of the largest banking failures in the world.
No lines of dispossessed depositors formed amid Baring Bank's collapse.
The book gives us a glimpse into the greed and misjudgements of the people in charge that led to Lehman's spectacular demise and the far-reaching consequences of the bank's collapse.
Part of that new evidence is testimony given in 2004 and 2005 during inquiries in Rome into the murder in June 1982 of Roberto Calvi, Banco Ambrosiano's chairman, just before the bank's collapse.
Early Monday morning, Lehman said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York for its holding company in what would be the largest failure of an investment bank since the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert 18 years ago, the Associated Press reported.
It is highly resonant that the bank, whose collapse four years ago is associated in most people's minds with the onset of the 2007-8 financial crisis, should be privatised just as we face the moment of maximum danger of a second banking meltdown - this one emanating from the eurozone's turmoil.
The LTCB is a case in point: despite rumors of the bank's imminent collapse, the government so far has not publicized the scope of the bank's problems.
The bank continues to wind down Citi Holdings, the entity created after the mortgage collapse where the bank has isolated its toxic assets.
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If demand is cut again, the risks of debt default and a wider collapse in bank credit are high.
The bank's recent collapse has left Dominicans with a large bill, tainted the country's political leadership and undermined one of the Caribbean's more successful economies.
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The former chairman of Northern Rock, who resigned over his role in the bank's near collapse, has won a seat in the House of Lords.
The other constraint that English clubs have faced was the collapse in bank lending in the UK (which among other things put paid to the plans of Hicks and Gillett at Liverpool).
The former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland was awarded his title for "services to banking" in 2004, but pressure has been mounting for it to be withdrawn over his role in the bank's subsequent collapse.
Kochan is an investigative journalist who has written several books about financial scandals such as the collapse of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, one of the biggest bank frauds in history, and The Guinness Affair, an illegal share-fixing operation.
Some claims related to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in 1991 remain unresolved.
Officials are confident that no continental European bank is in danger of collapse.
To make matters worse, the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers has become a liability for many solar energy companies.
The collapse of one bank can spread trouble throughout the financial system as depositors from other, healthy, banks suddenly fear for their money.
The Banking Standards Committee said Sir James and another former boss, Andy Hornby, were primarily to blame for the collapse of the bank on 2008.
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