The once boring bank shareholder meetings are heating up and becoming more unpredictable.
Among the banks that Chau holds are Wing Hang Bank and Guoco, Dao Heng Bank's majority shareholder.
To turn it back into a Building Society rather than leave it as a shareholder owned bank which is sold off.
So a bank does not create shareholder value by using shareholder funds to buy Greek bonds as these shareholders can buy these bonds directly.
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McDonnell pointed to the Democratic Party's role in placing the chairman, Giuseppi Mussari, through the bank's largest shareholder, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
The investment bank embraced the maximisation of shareholder value when it went public in 1999.
Thorp owns more than 10% of Virtus, making his fund its second-largest shareholder, behind Bank of Montreal.
Mr Hewlett has launched a lawsuit which alleges Hewlett-Packard coerced one big shareholder, Deutsche Bank, into voting with the board.
Mahmoud is a prominent businessman and a shareholder in Kabul Bank.
The bailout package announced overnight was evidently a pleasant surprise for investors fearing the worst of both worlds: a government stake in an independent bank and double-digit shareholder dilution.
Reuters yesterday reported about about a group of JPMorgan Chase shareholders who have issued a proposal asking the Board of JPM to consider breaking up the bank in order to boost shareholder value.
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According to estimates, this will make him the bank's ninth-largest shareholder.
And then there is the possibility that the central bank's presence as a shareholder in quoted companies will be interpreted by other investors as an official mark of approval.
If I were a shareholder invested in a bank that had underperformed almost three-quarters of its peers would I really expect the executives to be rewarded with an incentive for that?
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It is also hammering out the future governance of Bank of Ayudhya with its other big shareholder, the Ratanarak family, led by billionaire Krit Ratanarak.
Bank of America is set to hold a shareholder meeting on Wednesday in Charlotte, N.
R. 1965 would remove the pressure of the current shareholder cap for small banks and bank holding companies.
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"If DBS can only buy 40% of Danamon, they will walk away from the deal, " Mr. Koh said indicating that the Singapore bank would not want to be a minority shareholder.
The market regulator's powers do not extend to the central bank, but Consob officials recognise that the Bank of Italy's presence as a shareholder in quoted companies is a serious problem.
But the ECB is prevented both by its own constitution and by the passionately held views of the Bundesbank - the German central bank and the ECB's most influential shareholder - from purchasing substantially more than that.
But this leads to another problem, since it leaves the central bank and the government, already the largest shareholder at several big banks, in control of an increasingly large amount of shares (though much of this is counted as shares held by trust banks).
But as is the usual case there are many interconnections: GE is the majority shareholder, for example, in Budapest Bank.
Still another major CCX shareholder was ShoreBank, a small Chicago bank that once teetered on the edge of bankruptcy due to failed subprime mortgage investments.
Only a few months ago, Mr Grande Stevens took up yet another directorship, at UniCredito Italiano, a bank, where he acted as peacemaker after a shareholder row at the beginning of this year.
The San Francisco, California-based bank, of which Warren Buffett is a major shareholder, also announced a share buyback program, with plans to buy about 200 million shares or about 3.8% of its shares outstanding.
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McGuinn has made his second biggest shareholder, at least, forget all about Bank of New York.
If the bank meets its return-on-equity goals, however, a portion of the profits goes into the bank's pension scheme, which is its largest shareholder.
On Friday, the Dutch Supreme Court announced its long-awaited ruling on the sale of LaSalle Bank, the U.S. subsidiary of ABN Amro, to Bank of America, saying the transaction did not require shareholder approval and could go ahead.
U.S. banks were no picnic either, with Citigroup losing 8.9% and Bank of America down 9% after CEO Brian Moynihan addressed shareholder questions on an afternoon conference call.
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Avantel's Mexican shareholder is Banamex, the country's biggest bank.
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