Put another way, the combined market capitalisation of Japan's financial giants is less than the capitalisation of just one American bank.
Financial giants such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have received the exemptions, almost 350 of them.
The FHFA filed separate lawsuits against 17 global financial giants, including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
Who else but these giant pools of fast-growing capital could have moved so quickly to commit vast resources to financial giants in need?
The markets are nervously waiting for earnings from financial giants JPMorgan Chase ( JPM) and Goldman Sachs ( GS), which will be released before the opening.
Indeed, Mr Bernstein seeks to show how financial giants such as Barclays Global Investors and Goldman Sachs Asset Management have built on the insights developed by the academics.
Why are all these financial giants facing such difficult times?
Those financial giants contract with ARO, a Kansas City, Mo.
Several of the nation's financial giants, including Bank of America, Allied Financial, JPMorgan Chase and GMAC, have halted foreclosures, although Bank of America and GMAC announced they are resuming the process.
As for Discover, the deal would mean an almost complete hold on the credit cards issued by one of the largest, and arguably the most profitable, of the U.S. financial giants.
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Fifteen years ago Frankfurt aspired to become a global financial centre, but these days German financial giants such as Deutsche Bank and Allianz do much more business in London than in Frankfurt.
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However, a number of financial giants, led by American Express, are proving that there is indeed a way for the industry to innovate in a profitable and economically sustainable way: through social media.
These and dozens of other government investment vehicles from the Gulf states to the Far East are the pools of wealth that have become a source of rescue capital for troubled financial giants like UBS , Citigroup and Bear Stearns .
Not unlike a certain kitchen pest, which can withstand mammoth calamities that kill larger animals in the ecosystem, payday lenders like World Acceptance chugged along relentlessly during the financial crisis that brought down financial giants like Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.
Although he spent much of his short term as governor mired in disputes with the state legislature, many New Yorkers remember his days as an effective attorney general who brought financial giants to heel and foresaw some of the problems that led to the recent financial crisis.
The Giants financial success can be directly attributed to the opening of PacBell in 2000.
It is worth noting that such scepticism is second nature to the giants of financial economics, as opposed to the more junior propellerheads.
Also consider the mind-bending financial resources amassed by giants like Apple, Google, and others contrasted against the unbending pressure businesses put on CIOs to cut costs annually.
In fact, the 53-year-old chairman of the offshore-based Ace Limited is taking a bite out of such U.S. insurance giants as Chubb, Hartford Financial Services and the American International Group (AIG).
Nicknamed "Daraweesh" and based in the coastal city of the same name some 150 kilometres from Cairo, Ismailia do not enjoy the same financial support as the capital's giants and are keen to grab the million dollar prize money.
Cotsakos talks of "digital financial media, " services unavailable elsewhere at prices the giants in the offline world can't match.
In the Free World it's been another momentous year of dynamic capitalism, with corporate giants under siege in the marketplace or in financial flux: General Motors, Ford, Fannie Mae, Merck and others in Big Pharma, Siemens, Time Warner, Coca-Cola, Sony and Volkswagen.
By training a certified financial analyst who worked for a decade with one of the giants of modern finance, investment maven Sir John Templeton, the author knows his stuff.
Manchester United is one of the world's most valuable clubs -- second only to Spanish giants Real Madrid -- according to a study by financial experts, Forbes.
On the one side, carriers want to cling on to financial control of the airwaves, while on the other, Internet giants like Google want it free and increasingly populated by people using their services.
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Among the globally-exposed stocks that UBS says look cheap relative to their sector are embattled oil giant BP, which is struggling to contain the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, drug-makers Sanofi-Aventis and Novartis, media and advertising companies Pearson and WPP, tobacco concern BAT, metals and mining giants, ArcelorMittal, Rio Tinto and Anglo American, financial firms ING and Aegon, capital goods companies Philips and Schneider Electric and energy company Repsol.
The only truly upbeat firms in America nowadays are the accounting giants, which for once are not being blamed for a financial disaster (this time that honour belongs to the rating agencies).
The list, which includes technology giants HP, Cisco, Intel, and IBM, also includes financial services firms (20%) such as Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase.
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When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it did more than just wipe out Wall Street giants like Lehman Brothers.
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