That has not, however, kept the bank out of the crosshairs of regulators and authorities.
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This week the government bailed the bank out, transferring bad debts totalling 8 billion koruna to a state institution.
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Apart from that, we have these big bodies set up called the International Money Tree Fund and the World Bank out of Washington.
They trot out some example bank out of context, paint it as cartoonishly incompetent and clunky, and then pronounce case closed on bigness.
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Many are now looking hard at Japan, following the success of Ripplewood and Christopher Flowers in buying Shinsei Bank out of bankruptcy, cleaning it up and floating it.
We've got to make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning, so we can't be demonizing every bank out there.
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Essentially Citigroup is contesting a decision made by Mr Bondi to exclude it from the list of Parmalat's creditors, a step that would, if upheld, keep the bank out of a future debt-for-equity swap prior to Parmalat's re-flotation on the stockmarket.
Concurrently, with few good options available for a resolution of the situation in Gaza, American policymakers should be loath to encourage a repeat in the West Bank out of a misguided and what would be ultimately foolish attempt to gain brownie points internationally.
They look at whether the government of the country which is home to that bank would bail the bank out in a crisis - thus reducing losses for the bank's creditors - and whether the relevant government could in practice afford to bail out the bank.
So for example, you are basing your investing for the next 20 years on what is going on with a Greek bank or the news coming out on a Monday and a Tuesday, so you change your entire dynamic of your long-term strategy based on one Greek bank coming out with some news.
The behemoth bank kicks out a quarter every three months, good for a 2.4% yield.
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The bank started out as Equity Building Society in 1984, a mortgage financier for low-income Kenyans.
Here's the key paragraph from the statement that the Bank put out first thing this morning.
But two years ago the HSBC bank pulled out of Samling following concerns about its logging activities.
And as Mark Lewis of Deutsche Bank points out, two more big ones are now being built.
The central bank points out that, historically, high growth and low inflation have gone together in Mexico.
Once Hiroshima Bank figured out what was going on, it closed the account.
Each year the World Bank comes out with an intriguing report, Doing Business.
So the insurance policy the bank took out last year against a deep global downturn is no longer needed.
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Hongkong Bank points out that the special administrative region's product mix does not overlap much with Southeast Asia's, limiting competition.
There will be, as the bank points out, a learning process for borrowers and financiers alike in this emerging relationship.
Gary Jenkins of Deutsche Bank points out that, historically, investors have been overpaid for the default risk on high-quality corporate bonds.
We shall have to wait and see, but the bank bashers out there may want to be careful what they wish for.
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Here is the big imponderable: what will the ECB do at the moment that a big bank runs out of unencumbered assets?
Tired of earning profits through conservative business loans, the bank branches out with an aggressive purchase of credit card clearing company in Miami, ICon.
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As the World Bank points out, global food production will have to rise by about 70% between now and 2050 to feed 9 billion.
When Wells launched its mobile banking in 2007, the bank built out its services, including the ability to do wire payments through the cell phone.
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"When we close branches, there is no choice but to let some employees go, " says chairman Yoon Byung Chull of Hana Bank, which bought out Boram Bank.
But as Martin Rama of the World Bank points out, Vietnam has almost no middling private firms between these mom-and-pop ventures and big exporters backed by foreign investors.
India tossed the joint development bank idea out there to colleagues last month, stating that the goal was to promote mutual investment and trade among the five countries.
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