Their success at Korea Exchange Bank may be an ominous precedent.
There are big plans for Russia, sub-Saharan Africa and South Korea, where HSBC is waiting for regulators to approve its 51% stake purchase in Korea Exchange Bank from Lone Star.
As The Economist went to press that was the choice facing HSBC, whose dogged pursuit of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) has become a litmus test of South Korean attitudes to foreign investment.
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Kim Kyong Lim, chief executive of Korea Exchange Bank, the main lender to Hyundai, argues that this should be no problem, since the bank's sub-standard loans stood at less than 18% of its portfolio at the end of June.
Bank of China, the country's largest foreign-exchange bank, said that its net profit climbed 12% on-year in 2012, higher than analyst expectations. 2012 net profit at Agricultural Bank of China, China's largest rural lender by assets, came out a touch lower than expectations.
After the holidays, cash will flow back into the banking system in exchange for customer deposits and will, in turn, flow from the banks into the Federal Reserve Banks in exchange for bank reserve deposits.
Traditionally China's foreign-exchange and trade bank, it still has the largest presence abroad.
Beyond the aforementioned holders of exchange bonds, Bank of New York Mellon and even the New York Fed have asked the judge to revisit its decision.
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The maple leaf depicted on the bills isn't an indigenous Canadian maple at all, but a nonnative and invasive Norway maple, he claimed in an email exchange with the Bank of Canada.
Jon Nadler, Senior Metals Analyst at Kitco Metals said that, on a day when the metals complex was witnessing losses in all but palladium and rhodium the 6.81% intra-day gain in the latter was most likely indicative of the possible effects of the creation and launch of the Deutsche Bank exchange-traded instrument.
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The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Wachovia hired at least one person from Union Bank after Union Bank exited the exchange house business who had a significant role with the casas at Union Bank.
We were the first small jurisdiction to commit to the automatic exchange of information of bank accounts to the European Union.
Meanwhile, the central bank and 11 Chinese commercial banks are setting up a National Bank Card Exchange Center to handle all plastic payments.
In the meantime, the major banks must be put under the direction of the European Central Bank in exchange for a temporary guarantee and permanent recapitalization.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has targeted Bank of America for its communications (or lack thereof) to shareholders around the time the Merrill transaction was being completed.
Countries with plenty of reserves, such as China or India, could allow mutual funds (domestic or foreign) to issue shares in domestic currency with which they could buy foreign exchange from the central bank.
In the second scheme, a former compliance lawyer for Morgan Stanley and her husband, a private practice lawyer, tipped a trader about upcoming mergers and acquisitions being handled by the bank in exchange for a cut of the profits from trading ahead of the event.
Mumbai is home to major financial institutions such as the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India, as well as Bollywood, the movie industry that produces around 1, 000 Hindi-language movies and musicals a year in Film City, a complex of studios, backlots and landscapes.
The move was designed "to avoid uncertainty about the crown's exchange rate", the bank said in a statement.
These securities are held in a separately managed account and utilize liquid ETFs and exchange traded options, avoiding bank credit risk.
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In much of East Africa you can now bank, even exchange foreign currencies and make international payments on a feature phone.
Bank of China is the country's biggest bank for foreign exchange transactions, so the account closure could hurt the North Korean institution.
German exchange Deutsche Boerse and Australian bank Macquarie have also bid and then backed away from the LSE after being rejected by its board.
Typically, governments hold cash reserves in their central bank as foreign exchange reserves for the purpose of stabilizing currency and management of liquidity.
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Though India's banks face bad debts, its cloistered financial system, high foreign-exchange reserves and capable central bank mean it is not about to keel over.
Mr Bhalla also takes issue with a suggestion that the Reserve Bank adopt an exchange-rate target a band of plus or minus 5% around a currency-weighted rate.
With hyperinflation, a gap of around 10:1 has opened up between the official exchange rate operated by the bank and the true rate reflected in the black market.
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