The central bank sets short-term interest rates, and fractional reserve banking is allowed.
The government is allowing offshore markets to trade the yuan at a level much stronger than what the Central Bank sets it at.
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The largest source of expense for this business comes from the provision for losses that the bank sets aside for potential bad loans.
For Hayek and the Austrians, things go wrong when a central bank sets short-term interest rates too low and allows credit to expand artificially.
The aim of this move appears to be to increase interest income for depositors under the state-dominated banking system, where the central bank sets guidelines for interest-rate levels.
It sets Bank rate, which is the percentage it charges on loans it makes to banks and other financial institutions.
Minutes from the latest meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central-bank panel that sets interest-rate policy, indicate a rate-cut idea has been around for a while.
The European Central Bank (ECB) sets monetary policy for all EU countries that have introduced the single currency.
Bank chairman George Ty himself sets the example, at 64 still at his desk every day.
The Bank of England, which sets UK rates, is charged with an inflation target of 2.5%, and may feel that any move to stimulate the economy would risk sparking excessive price rises.
At the bottom of some piece of paper to sign and fill in and that goes back to the company concerned who in turn passes it on to my bank, who in turn sets up the direct debit arrangement.
The bank's board of directors sets the pay for Dimon and other top executives.
To date no U.S.-based banks have settled charges of rate-rigging, though a number are members of the group that sets Libor, including Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase.
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It is rare for any bank to confirm or deny it tapped a central bank for funding, and it sets a precedent for other banks to do the same the next time concerns arises about which institution might need cash.
This involved day-to-day rigging of Barclays' submission to the mechanism that sets this key inter-bank interest rate.
It sets ratios between the amount a bank looks after for its customers and the amount that it can lend.
Adding to concerns was a weekend increase from the Peoples Bank of China in the reserve requirements it sets across the banking system.
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That means the government sets the target, and the central bank is free to work out how to meet it.
But, he went on, this was still not the view of a majority of the Bank's monetary-policy committee, which sets interest rates.
Worries are mounting about one of Europe's benchmark interest rates, after another bank on Wednesday decided to abandon the panel that sets the rate.
Berkshire Bank has sued a group of large banks that sets a key global interest rate, saying it was cheated out of interest income through alleged rate manipulation.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which regulates banks and sets interest rates, has a record of running a tight ship.
With manufacturing struggling under the burden of a high pound and exports plummeting, the Bank might be tempted to keep its base rate - which sets the trend across the economy - on hold at 6%.
The FPC, which will be part of the Bank of England and will sit alongside the Monetary Policy Committee that sets interest rates, is supposed to identify incipient dangers in markets of the sort that led to the great crash of 2007-8.
It said the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets interest rates and authorises other monetary boosts, such as QE - which involves pumping money into the economy to boost growth - should look at loosening the purse-strings.
The Bank of Italy has access to lots of market-sensitive information, and it also sets interest rates.
Analysts are predicting that these latest sets of results could leave Lehman Brothers an attractive takeover target for an international bank.
Started by the West Bank's Birzeit University, the centre teaches people in the camp how to use computers and sets up websites for refugee news, information and history.
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