Those loans largely eliminated the risk that a bank would abruptly collapse due to liquidity problems.
Clearly this is a preemptive step aimed to prevent liquidity problems becoming systemic as was threatened during 2008.
Four days later Semgroup first announced that it had liquidity problems and sold its NYMEX trading account to Barclay's.
At a news conference, he said the U.S. economy remains fundamentally sound and can ride out any liquidity problems.
They're being hurt by the same liquidity problems that everyone else is facing.
That will bring about capitalization and liquidity problems at a time when the economic recovery overall in Europe is tepid.
Bob Sumpter, vice president of real estate development at the Yellowstone Club, denies that the club is having liquidity problems.
Several banks have suffered liquidity problems following a recent Central Bank decision to revoke the licences of Sodbiznesbank and CreditTrust.
The Swedish central bank said it believed that Kaupthing was solvent, but was suffering temporary liquidity problems that could have wider repercussions.
He also said that liquidity problems were the highest ever for Goldman.
And, of course, those liquidity problems are intertwined with our own since our banks operate in Europe and the European banks operate here.
It was a miserable scorecard in what is supposed to be a recession-proof industry that escaped the credit and liquidity problems plaguing other financial institutions.
Recently, the BIS has been helping central banks with short-term liquidity problems, aiding institutions in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia with crucial bridging loans.
Turkey's new Banking Regulation and Audit Board said that Ihlas faced hopeless liquidity problems that stemmed from years of mismanagement and abuse of depositors' funds.
"The first phase of the crisis marked by adjustments and liquidity problems is finished, " says John Wadsworth, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia in Hong Kong.
Since the program went into effect in July, dealers have complained about its bureaucracy and that the delay in reimbursements is causing liquidity problems for the dealers.
Or to put it another way, fears about solvency of sovereigns translates into potential liquidity problems for banks - which can then turn the solvency fears into self-fulfilling prophesies.
Multinationals are downsizing and reworking their operations, and many local firms are facing serious liquidity problems due to high interest rates and the reluctance of banks to hand out loans.
Critically, the European Central Bank has interpreted its own legal role more expansively, and now foresees the possibility of intervening to stop government liquidity problems from turning into crises of solvency.
With the ink barely dry on his resignation letter, signed that August, it is hardly a stretch to conclude that a sizable sale of stock in early September indicates that Skilling knew about liquidity problems at Enron.
"What's happening in the last few months is that more are looking at cross-border opportunities, particularly in Europe, " where a number of good brands are struggling with liquidity problems or distressed assets, said Steve Lim, chief executive of J.
Overall, I believe that an integrated approach to monetary and bank supervision would provide the most efficient set of procedures for diagnosing problems with banks and then prescribing the correct mix of solvency and liquidity measures required to resolve these problems.
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While the markets rallied on the increased liquidity measures, the structural problems of the European Union have not just gone away.
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Obviously, the major potential problems are lower trading liquidity and order processing delays.
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But floods of liquidity don't directly combat problems of insolvency.
Unfortunately, these liquidity infusions do not resolve the solvency problems in the euro zone but merely kick the debt can a little further down the road.
Mr. MIKE ENGLUND (Founder and Director, Action Economics): Overnight, we found banks in Europe, and in France in particular, had liquidity issues, which raised the question: Are the problems we're facing here in the U.S. rippling through across overseas?
Stock and flow problems, as too much debt is coupled with frozen liquidity, are being remedied by austerity, which will lead to a deepening of the current recession.
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