But in an attempt to quash the speculation -- which had seen Barclays shares plunge by more than 12 percent -- the group stressed its Barclays Capital investment banking division was trading ahead of last year.
Because the Co-Op would become so large in the sensitive business of taking deposits, with care of tens of billions of pounds of savings for many millions of customers, it would be forced to change its corporate structure and governance, and dedicate more capital to banking, to protect depositors from losses.
One reason why Wal-Mart might be reluctant to buy Lenta, at least in the short term, is the amount of due diligence that would be needed, says Herbert Moos, the chief financial officer of VTB Group, which together with TPG Capital holds a stake in Lenta through its VTB Capital investment banking unit.
Over time, excessive capital levels will increase the cost of capital to the banking industry and decrease lending.
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In addition to Chinese sources of capital, international banking firms are now more than willing to support Chinese companies with global ambitions as well.
Yet even among nationalistic Asians, attitudes are changing, if for no other reason than the desperate need for foreign capital to rebuild banking systems.
To clarify, men like Yeager are forced to actually remove growth capital from the banking system in order to sustain their most basic standards of living.
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So there would be a big new incentive for banks to deploy more of their capital in retail banking, or the operation perceived as more vital to the UK's prosperity.
Hunter also states in the letter, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, that the NBPA will no longer work with Prim Capital, the banking firm that employs Hunter's son, Todd.
Because of the imperative of maintaining high levels of capital in the banking part of the Co-Op, the group's ability to invest in its important supermarkets and other services could be restricted.
Its capital markets and banking division, which includes Salomon Smith Barney, managed to push up its income by 4% during the second quarter, mainly because of good profits from issuing and trading in bonds.
The Committee noted that cuts in official interest rates could not be expected to resolve the current problems in financial markets and that a significant increase in the capital of the banking sector would be required.
Speculating about what might be the effective standard at an exam is counter-productive to the social desire of having more lending occur in the system, and also discourages the commitment of additional capital to the banking system.
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With my background in venture capital and investment banking, the Tides board chose a CEO from way outside what would have been its comfort zone 35 years ago and signaled its readiness to start a more entrepreneurial phase and adapt to new times.
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For now Moynihan is clearly banking on cost-saving measures associated with mass layoffs to help convince stock market investors that Bank of America is headed in the right direction and can deal with the current low-interest rate environment, mortgage-related legacy issues and new international banking capital requirements that Moynihan said were the biggest challenges facing his bank.
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According to the Bank of England's analysis, if every single one of those countries went bust and wrote off 50% of their sovereign debt, banking debt and non-bank private-sector debt, that would wipe out around half the capital in the UK banking system - which is another way of saying that, in theory, the majority of our banks would limp on.
"The figures will give Deutsche Bank tailwind for selling their shares in the capital increase, " said Dirk Becker, a banking analyst with Kepler Capital Markets in Frankfurt.
"It gave us a chance to lead the digital-banking revolution, " Jon Witter, Capital One president of retail and direct banking, says of the ING deal.
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Vinayak, a Singapore-based partner who leads investment banking and capital markets for Asia at McKinsey.
That leaves the possibility of imposing losses on the providers of capital to the Cyprus banking system.
In November Schwartz hired veteran automotive analyst John Casesa, formerly of Merrill Lynch, as senior managing director of investment banking and capital markets.
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Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays that provides large corporate, institutional and government clients with solutions to their financing and risk management needs.
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In recent years, it has turned its focus on building credit cards (buying MBNA Corp. earlier this year, for example), private banking, capital markets and other nondeposit intensive businesses.
" Mayank Tandon, a financial technology analyst at Signal Hill Capital, an investment banking firm in Baltimore, says that "the real growth opportunity in the cards business is truly in emerging markets.
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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In addition to mergers-and-acquisitions advisory, investment banking includes raising capital through stock and debt.
Capital One, the official banking and credit card of NCAA, has long been heavily invested in college sports.
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Some economists argue that those countries should learn from Chile's open market economy, tight banking supervision and capital controls.
"Politicians want to look like they are doing something while not doing something, " says Joseph Mason, a professor at Drexel University who studies banking regulation and capital markets.
Eager to curry favor with the next batch of global leaders, ensuring a future supply of investment banking fees, capital to expand abroad is now increasingly available from international sources.
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