Bankrupt Lehman has been in talks for over a year with about a dozen big-bank counter-parties about the value of the their claims.
They also put physical and psychological distance between the depositor and his bank, which is counter to the idea of a community bank.
It also led to a development bank designed to counter the influence of the IMF.
Gone are the days of the Clydesdale Bank when it had a reputation of being the businessman's bank, when it looked after its customers and sometimes staff too, when it could make profits without effort, when it could afford to innovate and to effectively become the first bank with an online counter system.
All of the other ELA debt was contracted under the Facility Deed which according to the Anglo Irish Bank Annual Report 2010 is an unsecured loan facility guaranteed by the Minister for Finance who separately benefits from a counter indemnity from the Bank should the guarantee be called upon.
And the European Central Bank (ECB) should counter the fiscal austerity with a looser monetary policy.
In an effort to counter what the bank called "inaccurate" media speculation, it published a redacted version of the PwC report, alongside the bank's regulations, on Wednesday.
To date, inflation expectations appear to have remained reasonably well anchored, but any tendency of inflation expectations to become unmoored or for the Fed's inflation-fighting credibility to be eroded could greatly complicate the task of sustaining price stability and reduce the central bank's policy flexibility to counter shortfalls in growth in the future.
We, of course, continue to lead on this area with implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, and we're going to see continued movement from all our G20 partners on implementation in key areas, such as over-the-counter derivatives and cross-border bank resolution.
Eventually the bank must pull a surprise intervention, and another counter-rally pops up.
"The refund will be available either through a transfer into your bank account, or to you personally at the counter of the post office, " the letter said, according to Reuters.
But central bank policymaker Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner said Tuesday that she did not expect a significant slowdown in the Polish economy and that the bank should not delay a rate hike to help counter inflation.
Those remarks seem to run counter to recent statements from the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, who last week said the ECB would do whatever it takes to keep the Euro currency in its present form.
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Some investors and dealers counter that Eurobonds should be treated differently from government or bank loans.
Compared with the glacial progress on initiatives to counter tax avoidance, international projects on financial crime and bank regulation have done rather well.
Though the Singapore dollar is close to its highest for seven years, some analysts expect the city-state's central bank to raise the ceiling on the currency's (unpublished) trading band soon, to counter the inflationary effects of high oil prices and a tight labour market.
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Australia's central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3%, as it looks to counter a slowdown in its mining sector.
Swaps and other derivatives trading is a huge business for big banks like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which collectively make up 97% of over the counter swaps trading.
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