Deutsche Bank is more like a bunch of franchises that include an investment bank, an asset-management arm, a retail bank, a commercial bank and a private bank for the well-off.

ECONOMIST: Germany's biggest bank regroups to storm New York

"Past experience has taught us that a bad loan crisis usually came three years after a period of abnormal credit surge, " Wei Guoxiong, chief risk management official with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency.

BBC: Workers at a factory in China

The FDIC has given East West Bancorp some breathing room to deal with the assets of the failed banks, but we wonder if management is having a harder time integrating United Commercial Bank and Washington First International than it originally planned.

FORBES: Price Might Be Right On East West Bancorp

The Amsterdam commercial court ruled that ABN's management could not go ahead with the sale of LaSalle to Bank of America without first putting the decision to a vote by shareholders.

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The second is Daiwa Bank, which is being asked by the regulators to spin off its profitable pension-fund management business, perhaps so that the weak commercial-banking rump can be used as a bridge bank, to tide over customers of defunct regional banks.

ECONOMIST: Money for nothing

Mashreqbank psc is a United Arab Emirates-based bank engaged in the provision of retail banking, commercial banking, investment banking, Islamic banking, brokerage and asset management activities.

FORBES: Mashreq Bank