• The auditors said that guidelines were often violated while writing off loans and accused bank officials of siphoning off funds meant for the scheme.

    BBC: Indian farmer

  • The Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has concluded that they collectively need to raise more than the sums they have individually negotiated with the soon-to-be-closed Financial Services Authority (they have recently been agreeing measures with Andrew Bailey of the FSA to strengthen themselves - which is why, for example, Royal Bank of Scotland is shrinking its investment bank and floating off its US bank, Citizens).

    BBC: UK banks 'still short of capital', says BoE

  • The most extreme danger would be if Spain and Italy are cut off from international markets and bank depositors across the euro-zone periphery start to empty accounts, fearing their deposits might be next to be redenominated in national currencies.

    WSJ: Europe Girds for Greek Exit

  • In order to secure the 10bn euros, agreed by the EU and IMF, Cyprus was forced to wind up one major bank and write-off of a large portion of secured debt and uninsured deposits in the largest bank, Bank of Cyprus.

    BBC: Cyprus to ease citizenship rules for EU bailout losers

  • Spirit - backed by private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and CVC Capital Partners as well as US investment bank Blackstone - saw off rival bids from pubs group Laurel and Japanese bank Nomura.

    BBC: S&N toasts ?2.5bn pubs sale

  • If he's not there to sell the whole thing, perhaps he will end up splitting off the commercial bank and running the remainder.

    FORBES: Wachovia Steels Itself For Uncertain Future

  • Chinese companies' push into the bond market comes amid Beijing's efforts to wean businesses off bank loans and to build a competitive credit market that would better reflect the cost of capital.

    WSJ: Faith in Bailouts Spurs China

  • My rule is to write about decisions in the last couple of months and quite often I stick with the last couple of days, but the passing of Doctor Joyce Brothers has inspired me to get in the way-back machine and dust off Bank of Stockton v.

    FORBES: Doctor Joyce Brothers Cameo In Tax Court And Women's History

  • The bank says this is partly because firms are more focussed on paying off loans, and not because the bank is refusing to lend.

    BBC: Northern Ireland's business angels who act like dragons

  • Goldman's claim to celebrity, in addition to secretly running the world, is shipping its best and brightest off to run the federal government and the central bank, not appearing on reality TV or in social media.

    FORBES: Pranking Goldman's Lucas Van Praag

  • Last week, Mr. Kerry kicked off in Israel and the West Bank a renewed U.S. push to restart Arab-Israeli peace talks.

    WSJ: Kerry Focuses on Iran, North Korea Leaders

  • The device "learns" the infrared signal from the TV remote and switches off the entire bank of plugs when the standby button on the remote is pressed.

    WSJ: Switching Off Standby Mode

  • Among the largest underlying components of XLF, in trading today American Express Company ( NYSE: AXP) is off about 1%, Metlife Incorporated ( NYSE: MET) is off about 2%, and Bank of New York Mellon Corporation ( NYSE: BK) is lower by about 0.5%.

    FORBES: Financial Fund See Inflows -- MET, AXP, BK Noted In Report

  • According to the Bank of England's analysis, if every single one of those countries went bust and wrote off 50% of their sovereign debt, banking debt and non-bank private-sector debt, that would wipe out around half the capital in the UK banking system - which is another way of saying that, in theory, the majority of our banks would limp on.

    BBC: Why UK banks are not immune to eurozone woes

  • Allowing loan securitizations, derivatives, and swaps to be taken off bank balance sheets was an important element in this, as were the procyclical rules on capital and loan loss reserves.

    FORBES

  • Deutsche Bank is more like a bunch of franchises that include an investment bank, an asset-management arm, a retail bank, a commercial bank and a private bank for the well-off.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's biggest bank regroups to storm New York

  • They are weakly regulated and thus are able to handle huge financial sums for parties who want to remain anonymous, moving money in and out of secret foreign-bank accounts and then on and off the books of legitimate companies in open commerce.

    FORBES: Is The Federal Reserve Using Money-Laundering Techniques To Cleanse Banks' Balance Sheets?

  • The Treasury, of course, must move with alacrity in removing those impaired mortgages and other exotic instruments off of bank balance sheets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • What is striking about where he ends up, as I understand it, is that he will encourage businesses to wean themselves off their addiction to bank finance and do more to help themselves.

    BBC: How business can bypass banks

  • And by using the global positioning satellite network, vessels' positions can be monitored automatically, as is already the case around the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Georges Bank off the coast of Maine.

    ECONOMIST: Marine conservation

  • Talk of a run on Greek deposits, and some banks being cut off from European Central Bank (ECB) support, have added a fresh twist to scary talk about Greece and the euro.

    BBC: Greek banks, the euro and the ECB

  • In fact, long-term debtholders who have debt claims against the bad bank and equity claims against the good bank will be better off under this plan than if the bank were liquidated or continued to operate as one bank.

    WSJ: Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks

  • The third cut in as many months was widely expected, and is seen as an effort by the central bank to head off a recession by freeing up credit and reassuring wary consumers, many of whom are carrying considerable credit-card debt.

    NPR: Fed Cuts Key Interest Rate by Quarter-Point

  • On a recent trip, guests at the lodge shuffled down the path, through the scented tropical garden and onto the river bank, where they clambered into launches and headed off into the shallows of the New River.

    BBC: Tagging crocodiles in Belize

  • In my prior coverage I noted that a New York area car dealership had sued Park Avenue Bank claiming that it was forced to pay off a loan by giving away Cadillacs to bank employees and their families, including Antonucci.

    FORBES: Park Avenue Bank's Former President Arrested

  • It is shutting off lending to land developers and has raised bank reserve requirements five times this year.

    FORBES: How China Will Crash And Burn

  • The strength of that tie makes it harder for firms to shop around and play one investment bank off against another.

    ECONOMIST: Investment-banking fees

  • The bank has been cordoned off and closed for a police investigation.

    BBC: Oxford Lloyds TSB bank raided by two armed robbers

  • Later on, I found out that the husband took the money from the sale of the house out of their joint bank account and ran off with his much younger secretary.

    FORBES: Zero Dollar Fix

  • The cost of ELA to IBRC is assumed to be 200 basis points higher than the MRO rate but this profit margin goes to the Central Bank and is subtracted off when calculating the net cost.

    FORBES: How Much Would Ireland Benefit from Replacing the Promissory Notes with a Long-Term Bond?

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