The FDIC faced up to very similar problems in the savings bank industry, allowing savings banks to get through the very difficult economic times but not allowing them to increase their risk profile.
We hear from former trading vice-president of Lehman's, Larry McDonald, who has written an insider's view of the systemic problems within the bank in his literary apologia "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers".
Stocks retreated after reports that Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, could usher in a new template for resolving future bank problems in the euro zone.
Mr Dijsselbloem said the bank's problems stemmed from a decline in the value of its property portfolio.
In a report this week, the World Bank says Indonesia faces many of the same problems encountered by transitional democracies in Eastern Europe, but fails to do much about it.
The problems are especially acute in the fixed-income department of the investment bank, where debt products are issued and traded.
Some countries maintain that the support of the UN will be critical in sorting out such problems and in securing help from other institutions, such as the World Bank and the European Union.
In January, at a meeting with analysts, the bank's bosses disclosed that it had problems in retail lending.
In an April speech in Berlin, Dr. Andreas Dombret, a member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank (the German central bank), offered a startlingly frank assessment of the current problems in Europe.
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The communication difficulties between the UK Treasury, the FSA and the Bank of England during the Northern Rock crisis in 2007 illustrated some of the problems that can occur when there is incomplete co-ordination between the lender of last resort and the bank supervisor.
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The Venezuelan government assured investors that the economy was stable and denied that the decision to intervene in the bank was indicative of wider financial problems.
In addition, there were serious communication problems between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Treasury Department regarding AIG's retention payment program.
But in practice, the knowledge problem and public-choice problems make such an ideal bank an illusion.
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In fact, in almost every case of bank problems or failures, government regulators have been the last people to know.
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Key takeaway: Cyprus may be a unique situation given the nature of its problems (huge bank deposits that were invested in government bonds that went south) and this is a positive development.
He says at the moment there is no real safety net when problems arise in the eurozone and there needs to be fewer restrictions on the European Central Bank, for example when it comes to buying government bonds.
Both of those problems have struck WikiLeaks in the last six months, as Visa, Mastercard, and Bank of America have all cut off donations to the group and PayPal and the banking arm of the Swiss postal service PostFinance have both frozen WikiLeaks-associated funds.
In the past few days, Royal Bank of Scotland has found similar problems.
The central bank governor, Daoud Ballali, acknowledges that there are problems in agriculture, which is moving more slowly than other sectors of the economy.
Would there be problems if, say, the October date meant that shoppers could still have bank accounts in francs and marks while shopkeepers were giving them euros?
Allianz thought it had its product and distribution problems solved in March 2000 when Deutsche Bank and Dresdner announced plans to merge and bring Allianz into the deal.
During a presentation in New York on Tuesday, Morgan Chief Philip Purcell acknowledged that big morale problems were affecting the bank's investment banking and equities divisions--whose cosseted bankers contribute 20% to 25% of profits--and that senior management was spending "an awful lot" of time on the issue.
About 600, 000 customers in the Republic and Northern Ireland were affected by the IT problems which led to widespread criticism of the bank.
And as the problems have persisted, it has become increasingly aggressive, with multiple hikes in interest rates and increases in bank reserve requirements, the most recent taking place last week.
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While Citigroup ( C) and Bank of America ( BAC) were so loaded down with mortgage lending woes and other problems in the financial crisis, JPMorgan was relatively unscathed, as we see here in a net income chart.
Mr Estrada's other problems were highlighted this week by a pair of reports from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, in which the Philippines is vying with Indonesia to turn in the slowest growth in the region this year.
Bernanke punted, saying that the central bank will issue a "principles-based" report in April to make sure any problems identified don't occur again.
And on top of blocking bank withdrawals and imposing capital controls Greece would also face the massive problems of introducing a new currency in the form of new coins and notes and procedures.
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