With the latest technology, says Cho, the bank can measure the profitability of every branch employee and customer, mine its customer database and run sophisticated risk-management and credit-analysis programs.
Even after this week's gain, by one measure bank stocks are still less expensive than the broader market.
The minister was advised very closely by the financial regulator in Ireland and the central bank that this measure was urgently required.
Still, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday's big sell-off would be the wrong way to measure the bank bailout plan.
The gauge, a measure of bank-borrowing costs that is calculated daily in London, has steadily increased in recent weeks from a low of 0.245% in mid-June.
The Bank's favourite measure of inflation, which excludes both mortgage-interest costs and indirect-tax changes, was unchanged in July, at an annual rate of 2.2% (see chart).
QE1 added greatly to bank reserves, which bloated the traditional measure of the monetary base, but most of those bank reserves have not yet led to rapid monetary expansion that would be inflationary.
Japanese interest rates are already at zero, so loosening monetary policy is the sole measure at the Bank of Japan's disposal.
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve said Citigroup passed its annual checkup, a "stress test" to measure how a bank would fare in a recession.
Michael Trippitt of Oriel Securities said HSBC had been looked at unfairly by the market for having a relatively low core capital ratio, a key measure of a bank's reserves to back up its lending and investment portfolio.
Soon after, on New Year's Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions against any entity which dealt with the Central Bank of Iran, a measure which put off many financial institutions from doing business with Iran under the fear of being locked out of the US market.
The Reverend Ron Willoughby from the bank said it was a temporary measure and it was working to restock supplies.
In 1994, Israel and the PLO signed a historic agreement giving Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip their first measure of freedom since the 1967 Middle East war.
The first measure comes from the Bank of International Settlements, which found that if private debt as a share of GDP accelerates to a level 6% higher than its trend over the previous decade, the acceleration is an early warning of serious financial distress.
The central bank has also expanded a key stimulus measure aimed at keeping long term interest rates low.
But when it comes to its formal constitution, the ECB is by some measure the most independent central bank of any major economy.
Valuation and gauging extremes is an art rather than a science as the metal is heavily influenced by hard-to-measure factors such as central bank intentions, political risk, policy irresponsibility, etc.
The most common measure of the monetary base is bank reserves plus currency outside the banking system.
Core inflation--a measure closely watched by the Reserve Bank of India--eased to its lowest in about three years, reassuring observers that price pressures are indeed in a downtrend.
The Bank of England has been focusing on an underlying measure of broad money, which excludes holdings by specialist financial firms.
While the Cypriot parliament postponed voting on the measure until Tuesday, and a central bank official said Cyprus's banks would remain closed until Thursday, Russian officials warned they might have to re-evaluate their position on a restructuring of Cyprus's loans.
In a desperate measure to strengthen the rouble, the central bank tripled its refinancing rate to 150% on May 27th.
Abouhossein sees regulation cutting into bank profitability overall, with return on equity, a measure of profitability, falling to 12% from 19% for big banks.
Now because falls in share prices of that magnitude can bash the confidence of those who lend to banks, they threaten the viability of those banks - so a temporary ban can be seen as a sensible calming measure, if it reduces the volatility of bank share prices.
HBOS, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, has signalled that the bank will no longer focus on market share as its main measure of success.
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Inflation, by the Fed's preferred measure, is only a smidgen above the central bank's target range, and rising interest charges are not the thing to cheer up increasingly gloomy consumers.
If you add those bank reserves to cash outside the banking system, you get a measure usually called the monetary base.
Mr Abe has suggested that the central bank should print an "unlimited" amount of yen as a measure to help fight falling prices.
And for good measure, Marchant's people are taking on the Bank of England, alleging their inflation forecasting has failed to appreciate what's happening in the energy sector.
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