Citi was the only bank to divest when it sold Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley.
Bank of America, the No. 2 bank by assets, is not the only bank experimenting, the Journal reported.
This bank would accept only large deposits (above the FDIC limit), pay no interest, and hold only bank reserves as assets.
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Government-controlled Ally Financial, the rescued former finance arm of General Motors, was the only bank to fail the test of capital strength.
Ally Financial was the only bank to fall below the minimum capital hurdle of a 5% capital buffer required to pass the test.
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Yet its social importance is immense: in Mongolia's vast rural areas, it is the only bank that most people have ever walked into.
The only bank to fail was government-owned auto lender Ally Financial.
Through a smart bit of asset flipping, it was the only bank that profited from the ill-fated takeover of ABN Amro, a Dutch bank, in 2007.
And I call that fundamental solution the deposit-only bank (DOB).
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Comerica said it believes it is uniquely positioned as the only bank in its peer group to have redeemed TARP and eliminated trust preferred securities from its capital structure.
Kudos must be given to the State Bank of Mauritius for being the only bank that both correctly codes pharmaceutical transactions and supports a large number of affiliate programs.
Mr. Bernanke stressed the point that our economy needs community banks, as they are sometimes the only bank that has the local market intelligence and expertise to make desperately-needed small business loans.
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Even by the government's optimistic accounting, only Bank of China currently meets the standards set by the Bank for International Settlements, which thinks big banks should have capital equal to at least 8% of their assets.
While BNP Paribas, the leading French bank, the only foreign bank active in Iran, the nature of its activities in that country is sufficiently important to merit investor attention.
Currently, PT Bank Negara Indonesia is the only Indonesian bank that has a full banking license in Singapore, which allows it to provide personal banking, trade finance and business loans.
Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS - news - people ) is the only British bank to have gained market share among the top 10 lenders in the investment banking arena in Britain, to 9.9% between January and August 2009, from 6.9% last year, according to data provided by Dealogic.
Moreover, BNP might not be the only European bank to be eyeing American acquisitions.
There was only one bank failure last Friday, which was Nevada Security Bank ( OTC:TBHS) of Reno, Nevada.
Only one bank, Goldman Sachs, expects the euro-dollar rate to rise above parity within the next 12 months.
Only Reserve Bank presidents and research directors were invited, except for a couple extra from the New York Fed.
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The news sparked worries that Morgan Stanley wasn't the only investment bank that needed to bolster its ability to cover redemptions.
In 2003, there were only 3 bank failures in the U.S., one of which was First National Bank of Blanchardville (FNBB).
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This time they are proposing tough mark to market standards not only on bank investments, but also on bank loans as well.
But if the borrower is forced into bankruptcy and the property is sold, only the bank with first claim on it will be repaid.
Moreover, it is the only federal bank regulator that has a funding cap, again, making it more constrained than any other federal banking agency.
Thanks to that capability, CIBC is the only Canadian bank that international regulators allow to calculate its own capital needs rather than use boilerplate ratios.
Sumitomo Mitsui is not the only big bank making odd moves.
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