The stiffest competition for these old banks may come not from established foreigners but from young Scottish upstarts.
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From the ruins of Estonia's old banks emerged thriving new ones, forced to live with ample capital and strict regulation.
The old investment banks, when they existed as free-standing institutions, could engage in no activity that didn't present a conflict with other customer interests.
Among others to qualify were last year's Tour School winner Per Nyman of Sweden, Spain's Miguel Angel Martin and 25-year-old Ben Banks, son of former Genesis keyboard player Tony.
After privatising chunks of east German industry, Goldman Sachs shot up league tables as it persuaded more and more German executives that it could serve them better than their old house banks.
The plaintiff, 21-year-old Aaron Banks, alleged that he suffered psychological trauma after growing breasts while taking Risperdal between 1999 and 2004, starting when he was nine years old, says Sheller, who added that the antipsychotic was not approved for use in children in the US at the time.
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JPMorgan, Citi and the old-fashioned banks like Wells Fargo ( WFC) and US Bancorp ( USB) look better.
Old constraints on banks were consigned to the dustbin of history.
Kilbeggan 15 Year Old: Sitting on the banks of the Brosna River and opened in, the Old Kilbeggan Distillery was the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world (it no longer distills).
Occupying an old foundry on the banks of the Ironbridge gorge, the Merrythought factory looks like a relic of a by-gone age.
As inflation shot up, mortgage borrowers were allowed to repay interest at old rates, and banks were told to capitalise the difference.
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Organizers are also reaching out by email and old-fashioned phone banks.
Bailout Social Security for the old ones, not banks for banksters.
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As neighbourhoods go, the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz just south of the Old Town on the banks of the Vistula River is a real survivor.
But if this observation were true, the bad bank would surge in value, and the old shareholders of the banks, who received the shares in the bad bank, would gain.
The architects could not even install new elevator banks in the old building because they would interfere with the telecom facilities.
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The Bank of England wants its ECTR - which provides relatively cheap loans, at a minimum interest rate of 0.75%, in return for pretty much any old assets or collateral the banks can provide - to be seen as mainstream funding, not stigmatised emergency funding.
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The AAMI Park stadium, a tidy and modern ground set in the middle of a cluster of grounds that includes the MCG, the Rod Laver Arena and the old Olympic Stadium by the banks of the Yarra River, is likely to be reasonably well populated when the match kicks off on Sunday evening, local time.
The old rules were designed to protect banks from being overly influenced by non-bank companies.
Emerging-market banks are of the old school, with branches, profits, lowish pay and high capital.
Starting with Bank of Scotland's operation of payment cards for Marks and Spencer, a retail chain, they have shattered the old convention that English and Scottish banks did not compete on each other's turf.
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At the same time, many Americans, fed up with Wall Street, have been pulling money out of the stockmarket and putting it into old-fashioned savings accounts at banks, even though they earn almost no interest.
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However, even a favourable ruling on interbank lending will not save most Landesbanken from their main problem: how can they compete profitably with the private-sector banks now that their old, natural business is to be phased out?
That meant banks had to drop the old partnership structures and raise new capital, going public in the process.
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Swiss bankers have already empowered Paul Volcker, a former chairman of America's Federal Reserve, to waive Swiss secrecy laws in banks in order to scrutinise old accounts.
Most large banks have successfully tapped shareholders old and new for more money, though at the painful cost of attracting short-sellers and seeing their share prices collapse (see article).
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