Citibank, and to a lesser extent Bank of America, are also widely believed to have deep relationships with Enron.
Germany - a key contributor to any rescue package - is arguing with France and the European Central Bank over the extent to which private investors should buy new Greek bonds and share the risk burden.
MPS's new managers are poring through documents in an effort to understand and explain the extent of the bank's financial woes.
In their advice and assistance to countries in Southeast Asia, the IMF and the World Bank, to a large extent acting jointly, have devoted a large part of their efforts to banking and corporate sector restructuring.
"Switzerland's reputation of bank secrecy is to a large extent misleading, " writes John M.
On the negative side perhaps the biggest surprise is the extent of markdowns in bank stocks.
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Arnott, who has managed the fund since 2002, believes mean reversion could take hold as soon as some uncertainties are taken removed from the market, especially concerning General Motors, Citigroup, and to a lesser extent, AIG and Bank of America 's merger with Merrill Lynch.
Elevated inflation also affects export competitiveness and limits the extent to which the central bank can cut interest rates to help stimulate the economy, Moody's said.
Yet because banks are so heavily regulated, and to a large extent shielded from non-bank competition, it is difficult to know how much better they would do in a more liberal environment.
With Beijing traditionally having kept tight control over foreign exchange, CDB and to a lesser extent the Export-Import Bank of China, a fellow policy bank have dominated the funding of overseas projects and investments of Chinese firms.
"The scale of the proposed job losses means that ordinary bank staff are being asked to suffer the consequences of the mismanagement of the bank's affairs to a disproportionate extent, " said IBOA general secretary Larry Broderick.
National Union of Students president Liam Burns raised concerns about the extent to which students were using bank and credit card loans.
The FSB, in coordination with the staff of the IMF and World Bank, has prepared a study identifying the extent to which agreed regulatory reforms may have unintended consequences on emerging market and developing economies.
That necessary amount of capital is based to a certain extent on the types of assets the bank chooses to carry on its balance sheet.
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The bank had been facing increasing calls to disclose the extent of its exposure to crisis-hit U.S. sub-prime mortgages and liabilities in the subsequent credit squeeze.
Thus far, there is no evidence of a retail bank run anywhere in Europe so, to the extent that people are thinking about this at all, it appears they believe reassurances that the situation in Cyprus has no broader implications.
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And as a consequence we know that we are bound to pay people, to some extent, regardless of the performance of the bank.
Bankinter, a Spanish bank, developed data-mining techniques to such an extent that it has been able to set up a useful business as a private detective agency for suspicious spouses.
The new requirements will involve intricate details on the banks where the accounts are held, the life span of the accounts, and even the extent of communications between the taxpayer and the bank.
Bob Gach, head of the capital-markets practice at Accenture, a management-consulting firm, thinks the new shackles will hasten the demise of the stand-alone investment bank though Goldman and, to a lesser extent, Morgan Stanley may remain as exceptions.
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As I have pointed out before, Italy, France and Spain are more at risk of a funding crisis than the UK, because their central bank, the European Central Bank, will not buy their debts to any substantial extent.
China's benchmark lending rate is slightly positive but this understates the extent of its recent monetary tightening: the central bank has also sharply raised banks' reserve requirements and capped credit growth.
"The extent and persistence of the economic deterioration may imply further bank losses, " said Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, head of the IMF team that conducted a recent visit to Spain.
It explains why Germans at the ECB opposed even the limited interventions by the central bank to buy up troubled Spanish and Italian debts - to the extent that two of the most senior Germans resigned in protest.
But the full extent of the calamity this government has inflicted on the West Bank and, especially, the Gaza Strip is nonetheless astonishing.
Several countries, including the U.S., are investigating the extent to which their citizens are dodging taxes through a Liechtenstein bank, after the German government obtained a list of 1, 400 of the bank's clients.
The Kohl government and Germany's leading commercial banker, Deutsche Bank chief executive, Hilmar Kopper, are engaged in open warfare over the extent and implications of the Soviet financial crisis.
There are, of course, big public policy ramifications to this legal fight, especially given the extent to which the federal government has gone to rescue big banks like Bank of America from the mortgage bust.
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Combined with the bank's takeover of Malaysia's biggest finance company, the decision highlighted the extent to which property developers have over-built.
As the Bank of England has tugged down the base rate, attention has naturally focused on the extent to which its efforts are getting through to the rates actually charged to borrowers.
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