As I have written more than a few times in the past, data is pretty boring, but it is at the core of finance and all measurements, from customer profitability in retail banking to risk management in global institutions.
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Not to be outdone in pointy-headedness, the Treasury committee hears from the chairman of the Independent Commission on Banking Sir John Vickers about its proposals to insulate high risk banking activities from "utility" high street banks.
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While acknowledging that Shariah compliant financial products can be complex, Stuart Levey, the Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has stated that such practices are monitored byfederal banking agencies and that the risk factors with Islamic banking are not unique.
But a euro-area banking union would risk a fragmentation of Europe's single market that might leave Britain's financial industry isolated.
Their weakness puts India's entire banking system at risk, because all of the finance companies clear their transactions through commercial banks.
Better banking supervision and risk management - all the reforms we talk about endlessly here in the UK to strengthen the financial system - will be one part of making the world a safer place, in rich countries and emerging ones like Brazil.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg welcomed the report, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It is based on the insight that many people share, which is that it is not right to have very high-risk and very low-risk banking activities so intertwined that, when something goes wrong, it is the taxpayer that picks up the bill".
Some say that if Bear Stearns had failed, the entire banking system was at risk.
Given the risk of banking or sovereign moral hazzard are some prices just too high to pay?
They also use requisitioned land as collateral for bank loans, adding to the potential woes of a banking system in which risk is poorly understood.
"Unless every country adopts the same sort of strategy and deals equally with its own banks, you could get the risk of banking protectionism, " Randolph said.
So, surely the proposal is to take the ultimate risk associated with banking problems off the Spanish taxpayer?
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In Mr Fichtner's view some banks might fail, but it would not put at risk the European banking system.
The agency cited "underlying structural weaknesses" and a growing risk from shadow banking.
These attempt to manage the risk of the banking system through the superior guidance of complex rules based on black box mathematical algorithms.
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And we need to understand what went wrong in this crisis, that the very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.
The additional capital requirements in combination with enhanced risk management standards, in theory should lead to reduced risk of bank failures, and should decrease the interdependence between financial institutions, effectively reducing the risk of future banking crises.
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As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.
But they do have regulatory policies that can and should be used to prevent excessive risk taking in the banking system.
The bank says its desire to do more business with low-income borrowers has been thwarted by banking regulations that discourage high-risk lending.
International lenders are gambling that the risk of a bigger banking crisis elsewhere in the eurozone has receded, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston writes.
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But Lamberts says he is not "overly concerned" if the banker flight rids the European financial sector of excessive risk and circumvention of banking regulation.
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Trading businesses exhibit high reliance on short-term wholesale funding and to varying degrees what Fitch views as more volatile earnings than commercial banking, and with more opaque risk.
Basel II was initiated in 2004 and expanded capital requirements to include tenets to maintain consistency of banking regulations globally in respect to risk and capital management procedures.
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They say the exposure of German and French banks to Greek debt is manageable and they deny that a default would put at risk the entire European banking system.
In recent years criticism of banking secrecy has centred on the risk of money laundering, the practice of disguising funds from illegal sources by passing them through secret accounts until their origins can no longer be traced.
As markets and regulators begin to digest the massive failure of MF Global, many have come out to call for stricter enforcement of the Volcker Rule, which aims to separate proprietary trading from commercial banking in order to minimize systemic risk.
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The President's proposal would put limits on the size and scope of the U.S. banking sector in the interest of addressing risk management and conflict-of-interest concerns.
This fuzziness about the costs of banking services means there is a greater risk that banks will mis-sell other products, to boost their profits - he says.
Not only will supporters be breaking the law by participating in DoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivism targets, but may also be at risk of having their online banking and email credentials stolen.
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