These might include commercial aircraft and ships, foreign deposits, overseas real estate, etc.
Cyprus is an offshore banking haven, which makes it somewhat unique in that it holds billions in foreign deposits, mostly Russian.
The high net interest margins at Wells Fargo have, in large part, been attributed to its large low cost average core deposits (which include noninterest-bearing deposits, interest-bearing checking, savings certificates, market rate and other savings, and certain foreign deposits).
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German social media broadcasted the political document from the Minister of Finance, Schauble to the Parliament chief, about the plan of shrinking the Cypriot banking system to the national level of Cyprus, which clearly states the removal of foreign deposits, destroying what has been built over so many years.
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Retail deposits volume was up only slightly to JPY 68.7 trillion, of which foreign currency deposits accounted for a paltry JPY 0.8 trillion equivalent.
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Cash reserves that have funded SWFs have accrued from several sources such as foreign currency deposits, gold holdings, Special Drawing Rights, petroleum, and state pensionsSWFs are essentially a byproduct of globalization.
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Despite the fact that foreign dollar deposits are already held at correspondent money center banks in New York, the centralized and unfettered enforcement access to customer data becomes the single greatest aspect of this new deal.
President Anastasiades said foreign investors who held deposits prior to 15 March, and who lost at least 3m euros would be eligible to apply for Cypriot citizenship.
Add in the fact that 37.5 percent of deposits are foreign, compared to the 22 percent EU average, and asking Cypriots to be the sole cross-bearers seems even more unjust.
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But euro-zone policy makers may not have the luxury of time, particularly if loose talk of depositor haircuts continues to circulate in a country where a quarter of deposits are foreign-owned with overnight notice.
Rosneft is already pulling its weight, in partnership with foreign firms, exploring for deposits off Sakhalin island in the far east.
In the first half of the 20th century foreign investment was largely in the form of bank deposits and government bonds.
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The banks shut for four days, after a run on deposits had almost exhausted the country's foreign-exchange reserves.
If the country's banks, whoever owns them, do not learn how to compete for deposits, they may start losing customers to foreign entrants that do.
Still, unless the central bank is prepared to stand behind the banks for ever, some will have to fall by the wayside as both foreign and bigger Nigerian banks sweep up the vast potential market for deposits and mortgages.
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Central banks currently hold 70% of their foreign-exchange reserves in longer-term securities and 30% in deposits.
In 2003 only three of America's 20 biggest banks were foreign-owned, with a paltry 2.2% share of deposits.
Thousands of other foreign troops remain in DR Congo - motivated primarily by Congo's vast mineral deposits.
This explains why foreign banks pose no serious competition and have a mere 5% market share of deposits.
The result is that in Latin America's seven largest economies, foreign banks now control around 15% of total loans and 16% of total deposits.
Tata, which mines all the iron ore and coal it needs, now aims to carry out primary steel production close to its iron-ore deposits, and then ship semi-finished steel for finishing close to foreign consumer markets.
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To attract investment of foreign dollars into the U.S. economy, the Internal Revenue Code generally exempts these deposits from taxation and reporting requirements.
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Here you have 800bn euros of foreign-owned government bonds, 600bn euros of foreign-owned corporate bonds, and 300bn euros of foreign-owned listed equities (numbers from JP Morgan) - together with E3 trillion of deposits.
This at a time when permitting of offshore drilling has been slowed to a near halt, oil rigs are being displaced to foreign locations by government regulators, and vast land and ocean oil and gas reservoirs, including oil shale deposits, have been put off-limits altogether.
That said, it is impossible to predict how much of the unconventional deposits will be recoverable until well after the drilling starts, which is why it is crucial that foreign energy companies with the technology begin exploratory work.
There are vast deposits of natural gas lying offshore and throughout this country and it's a potentially important alternative to foreign oil and other energy sources as well.
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