Kurowski believes that the current generation of bank regulations are based not on the possibility of mistakes, but on precisely the same risk models, credit ratings and market intuitions.
At the same time, banks during the boom years were able to crowd out alternative sources of corporate funding thanks to the flawed Basel bank regulations and the implicit subsidy arising from the too-big-to-fail problem.
The central bank recently issued regulations to monitor Sharia institutions and help them manage liquidity.
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.
The Ninth Circuit applied these criteria to the subpoena and the Bank Secrecy Act regulations at issue and determined (though some questionable reasoning) that the required records doctrine applied.
On top of that, there are other circumstances conducive to repression: the QE policy and new bank and insurance regulations, are forcing British pension funds to hold more government debt.
On a visit to India in early November, Robert Rubin, chairman of Citigroup's executive committee and a former American treasury secretary, said that Citi might consider buying a local bank, if regulations allowed it to.
The court determined that because the Bank Secrecy Act regulations were designed to address civil issues as well as criminal issues they were essentially regulatory, and not criminal, even though a significant purpose of the regulations is to detect money laundering, terrorism and tax evasion.
For example, labor regulations and bank scrutiny when allocating credit both serve valuable purposes.
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AAA-rated structured products ahead of international implementation of the Basel 2 regulations on bank capital.
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At yet another point, it is claimed by the Times, Mr Ashcroft, who had bought Belize's biggest bank, tried to obstruct attempts by the country's central bank to tighten banking regulations.
Hard-pressed small businesses could win some relief from bank charges, under new regulations proposed by UK Chancellor Gordon Brown.
Besides, Lewis confronts a vexing barrier: Federal regulations ban a bank from exceeding 10% in domestic deposits through a buyout.
Canberra's financial mandarins attribute Australia's resilience partly to the government's well-directed fiscal stimulus, and to tight regulations that kept bank lending fairly conservative.
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Bank executives often oppose the onerous regulations, but not the government subsidies which invite them.
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As with past regulations and rulings that affect bank revenue, this settlement could cost consumers.
The Vatican Bank - known officially as the Institute for Works of Religion - has hitherto exempted itself from international banking regulations on the grounds that it is not a real bank in the normal sense of the word, our correspondent says.
The bank has had trouble complying with money laundering regulations in the past.
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The bank regulator, the CBRC, is already tightening regulations around wealth management products and local government lending.
European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said the new regulations - called Basel III - were "a fundamental strengthening of global capital standards".
Such regulations should be efficient, the World Bank states, striking a balance between safeguarding some important aspects of the business environment and avoiding distortions that impose unreasonable costs on businesses.
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This seems to be a way for the bank to make additional revenue in light of new federal regulations.
The central bank is also trying to woo money by fiddling with regulations: on August 24th it allowed foreigners to invest freely in short-term government paper.
Logically, however, the assertion that Mr Bazy never informed his boss about Executive Life must be the basis of Mr Peyrelevade's explanation for his bank's failure to alert American authorities to serious breaches of regulations.
Mergers and acquisitions activity in the Gulf of Mexico will remain muted as companies assess the costs of slower permitting and tighter regulations, said Adrian Goodisman with Scotia Waterous, a Bank of Nova Scotia unit that has been involved in several large sales in the Gulf recently.
The banks have been hit hard by losses on their sovereign debt holdings and bank deleveraging has also been the result of substantial capital requirements and new regulations.
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Agency staff have basic employment rights, such as the minimum wage, and are subject to the Work Time Regulations which provide for 20 days basic holiday and eight days bank holiday leave.
The bank's so-called core Tier 1 capital ratio under new regulations known as Basel III rose to 8% from 6% a year earlier, then dropped to 7.8% after the bank provisioned for legal costs.
The Vatican Bank came under suspicion of money-laundering and failure to conform to international banking regulations during Benedict's pontificate, and its director was forced to resign last year after a stormy board meeting.
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