The debit-card fee wasn't the only revenue idea Bank of America shelved late in 2011.
The Bank of Japan risks dragging the idea of central-bank independence into disrepute.
They also put physical and psychological distance between the depositor and his bank, which is counter to the idea of a community bank.
So the idea of a bank tax is appealing precisely because it is arbitrary and unfair.
That outsourcing the computing is probably a very bad idea for a bank.
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He added that the governor had, at one point, been opposed to the idea of the Bank becoming a super-regulator.
When Lehman contacted Marubeni after a payment was missed, Marubeni said that it had no idea what the bank was talking about.
Jones denied being involved and claimed Davies was simply a lodger, saying she had no idea about joint bank accounts in which thousands of pounds were deposited.
India tossed the joint development bank idea out there to colleagues last month, stating that the goal was to promote mutual investment and trade among the five countries.
Just as important, though Mr Osborne might not always get an easy ride with Mervyn King, at least both sides know where they stand, and everyone has a fair idea where the Bank of England's responsibilities start and end.
New York insurance regulator Eric Dinallo is set to testify this afternoon about his efforts to coordinate a Wall Street solution to the crisis in the bond insurers, including the good bank, bad bank idea, which most admit is the least palatable of the available options.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were allowed to convert to bank holding companies, putting them under the auspices of the Fed, in late September, an SEC ban on short sales in hundreds of financial shares also came in late September, and well, the Utah bank idea went nowhere.
Also, if business spending picks up, regional bank stocks should improve, on the idea that expanding businesses will need bank loans for operational expenses.
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That is why the Germans resist the French idea of central-bank financing of the EFSF.
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Now Republican leaders and presidential candidates are flouting the idea of central-bank independence.
And even then, the ECB would need to decide it was a good idea for the central bank to help.
Letting banks revalue illiquid assets might also take some of the pressure off the 'bad bank' idea that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has championed.
Finance ministers from the five countries have been directed to look into the idea of the development bank and report back at the next summit, Singh said.
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He promoted the idea of breaking up Bank of America to its board of directors when he campaigned for the CEO job there in 2009, an unsuccessful effort that resulted in Brian Moynihan getting the top job.
However, the most interesting idea may lie within the Bank of Japan's policy framework, adopted last year.
The Christmas Club account was, on the surface, a bizarre idea: You gave the bank money every month.
Things are going so well that Antonio Palocci, the finance minister, recently resurrected the unpopular idea of giving the central bank formal independence.
His original idea for a common European bank bail-out fund was dropped in the face of German resistance to being seen to pay for others.
The governor told us, again and again, that the Bank had no idea what would happen to the economy in the next year or so, or the eurozone - anyone who could accurately forecast that, he said, deserved a medal.
So, a big short-term reason why people like this idea is it gives the Bank license - indeed forces it - to do more, in an environment in which interest rates are already at rock bottom and central banks are finding it hard to persuade businesses that normal rates of growth are going to come back.
Using greeters to spook potential bank robbers has spread quickly since 2006, when a Seattle FBI agent, Lawrence Carr, included the idea in a widely disseminated program taught to bank security officers called SafeCatch.
The European Central Bank has rejected the idea that it should lend to the EFSF.
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The problem was that the bank never considered the idea that documents like certificates of deposit could be generated on a LaserJet printer without their knowledge.
The bank relies on the idea that there will be a continual stream of those short term deposits with which it can finance those much longer loans.
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Two researchers, Karthik Muralidharan of the University of California at San Diego and Venkatesh Sundararaman of the World Bank, tested that idea in 300 state-run schools in Andhra Pradesh in India.
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