Ironically, given the criticism which the bank faced during much of 2001, the MECB study concludes that, on the whole, the actual decisions taken by the bank were the right ones.
Account holders at RBS and its NatWest and Ulster Bank subsidiaries faced disruption for up to two weeks in June after a software upgrade at the bank.
Despite all the bad news that Bank of America has been faced with since 2008 the U.S. bank is still on top of the world on the private banking front.
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As the allegations emerged, Australia's central bank, faced criticism over its supervision of the firms.
The European Central Bank, faced with a slowing economy on the Continent, is mulling a reversal of its tightening bias.
Thilo Sarrazin, a director of Germany's central bank, faced calls for his resignation after he published a controversial book on immigration.
So flyers who had faced complications over the coming bank and half-term holidays may still delay their sighs of relief.
The deal has been a never-ending nightmare for the bank as its faced growing foreclosure problems and legal battles stemming from the Countrywide unit.
Faced with low yields on bank deposits, illiquid property investments and more risky investments in the stock market, however, life insurance is also viewed as a safe and stable investment.
The other constraint that English clubs have faced was the collapse in bank lending in the UK (which among other things put paid to the plans of Hicks and Gillett at Liverpool).
Once they climbed the crazy mountain of Greek bureaucracy and reached the summit, they faced the quagmire of the bank, where the issue of how to confirm the credit card details of customers ended in the bank demanding that the entire website be in Greek only, including the names of the products.
Citi has been faced with questions about shrinking the bank to increase value for shareholders.
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The explanation for this expansion of the central bank is obvious: Faced with crisis in concerns in the market and the economy, they felt they had to do what they could do (not just central bank but the Treasury as well, to take action to stop deterioration and promote stability).
Today, Brazil is faced with inflation still above the Central Bank target and interest rates have not been able to reduce that significantly.
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It is also a clear and well written book that is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what went on with Fannie, Freddie, IndyMac, AIG, Lehman Brothers and all the rest only a few short years ago and who wants to understand absurd regulatory environment still faced by CitiGroup, Goldman Sachs, Bank of American, and JPMorgan Chase.
Walker, the newly named chairman, is now faced with cleaning up the reputation of the London bank.
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The FDIC faced up to very similar problems in the savings bank industry, allowing savings banks to get through the very difficult economic times but not allowing them to increase their risk profile.
On Friday, Barclays faced new claims that UK financial regulators were investigating the bank over money received from Qatar.
They choked because they were not accepting responsibility for their actions long before the firms they ran faced economic peril, in the case of Lehman and Bank of America, or caused an ecological disaster, with BP.
So far, Moody's has only faced legal action from private investors, including Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, over losses related to the financial crisis.
At the Fed's Oct. 30 policy meeting, Janet Yellen, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, noted that the economy faced increased risks.
Faced with slowing external and domestic demand, Japan's central bank has taken various steps to try and spur growth.
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WikiLeaks itself faced a financial blockade coordinated by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Bank of America and Western Union that deprived it of the majority of its donation sources for more than a year.
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"We completely understand the urgency to get Jiggers Bank reopened as soon as practically possible but we are faced with a unique and serious situation in terms of devising a sustainable solution to secure the rockface, " she said.
He can draw on his turnaround experiences both at Continental, which he joined in 1995 as it faced its third bankruptcy filing, and before that at American Savings Bank, a troubled California thrift, in the late 1980s (real estate being the culprit, of course).
When faced with mounting opposition, Cyprus abandoned its plan to impose large taxes on bank deposits.
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Yet, faced with apparently fudged criteria and the inclusion of Italy, the European Central Bank might then choose to follow a tighter monetary policy, making the new currency harder, not softer.
After at least a dozen turn-downs seeking thirty million dollars in bank financing for a professional football team that I represented, I faced the fact that my initial approach was not working.
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With murmurs at the FOMC growing louder every time the Fed Chairman and his acolytes express support for ultra-loose monetary policy and continued quantitative easing, Ben Bernanke faced the Senate Banking Committee where he once again defended his tenure as central bank chief.
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