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Julius Baer, another medium-sized bank, sold its institutional stockbroking arm in 2003 and is now spinning off GAM, its volatile hedge-fund operation.
As a long-term investment, Gan likes DCB Holdings, which owns medium-sized DCB Bank, Malaysia's third-biggest lender.
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However, Mr Draghi said that inflation would be contained in the medium term, but the bank would act if necessary.
However, the Bank has somewhat reduced its medium-term forecast for consumer spending growth and says that it could turn out to be even lower because household debt has reached a record level in relation to income.
Last year the government started to offer guarantees for bank loans to small- and medium-sized companies.
The bank rate is used to price medium- and long-term loans and is at its lowest level for three decades.
As I understand it, credit guarantee companies were originally created to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) get access to bank loans.
For her efforts, she was relocated back to the U.S. and on to the leasing business which then fell under the consumer side of the bank, attending to small to medium-sized businesses.
On Thursday, it was reported that China is considering a proposal to set up a regional bank to help its small and medium enterprises invest in Southeast Asian neighbors and fund infrastructure projects in an effort to buy goodwill in the region.
Much of that support went to big producers of capital goods like Boeing and General Electric, but the vast majority of Ex-Im Bank transactions are aimed at small and medium-size exporters.
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"In the medium term the decision taken regarding the loss on bank deposits could have major ramifications for the eurozone if the European debt crisis re-escalates, " said Gary Jenkins, managing director of Swordfish Research.
The fine relates to four structured bonds sold by the bank between January and March with a 'medium-to-low' risk profile instead of 'high'.
The Riadys are planning to sell part of their stake in PT Bank National Nobu, which lends to small to medium-size enterprises.
They were also more trusting of the medium, and more likely to give out personal information such as bank, credit card and mobile phone details.
On structural reform, the Bank agrees with some private economists that, over the medium term, government spending alone has failed to drag Japan out of the economic mire.
Shawbrook Bank and Aldermore were established recently to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with banking services.
These days, government spending is almost never uncontroversial - not the bank recapitalization, not the cheap credit for small- and medium-scale enterprises, not even the subsidized food and employment programs.
As a result, exports, which account for about 31% of the Chinese economy and support 200 million jobs according to the World Bank, are unlikely to create substantial growth in either the short or medium term.
To many bankers, particularly foreigners who have been keeping an eye out for opportunities in Japan, the government's inclination to obstruct reform has been sharply illustrated by last week's order by the Financial Services Agency, a regulator, to Shinsei, a bank now owned by foreign investors, to increase lending to small and medium-sized companies.
You saw again a specific announcement by Bank of America on an increased amount of lending in 2010 to small and medium-sized business.
Loan customers are mostly medium-sized local businesses, which might be too small to get much attention from a bank with national aspirations.
According to Joseph LaVorgna, Chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, a recent in Fed rhetoric has significantly impacted market perceptions of near-to-medium term monetary policy.
Banks also remain at loggerheads with the government and Bank of England over the cause of the long-running decline in lending to small and medium size businesses.
The bank is trying to build on its old base, by adapting some investment-banking products for medium-sized companies.
"In the short to medium term this will have an impact" on prices, said Isabelle Curien, a carbon analyst at Deutsche Bank in Paris.
In the meantime, however, most of the pain of restructuring is falling on small and medium-sized firms, tens of thousands of which have gone bust, often because they are unable to get bank loans.
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