The bank said some people who were pulling their money had confused the bank's name with Banco Confederado SA, one of the banks seized this week.
Some investors interpreted comments from Fed officials to mean that the bank may start pulling its support for the economy sooner than they expected.
Traditional lenders like Deutsche Bank are also pulling back.
In 1931, as the Austrian bank Creditanstalt collapsed, pulling down the banks of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, a run on the German currency forced it off the Gold Standard in May, then the British Labour government struggled to maintain its currency peg - imposing austerity onto its own voters as the price.
In this instance, McKinsey Global is not absolving U.S. policymakers, but it is offering points to consider before we go pulling funds out of the hallowed infrastructure bank.
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Mortgage servicing is another area where banks such as Bank of America (BAC) have been pulling back sharply as new capital rules make the business prohibitively expensive for banks.
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The money is coming from yield-starved Japanese investors, pension funds, and retail investors pulling their cash out of muni funds and pouring it into bank-loan mutual funds.
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Moreover, it tends to obfuscate the central plank of Mr Mitzna's platform, which is that if the Palestinians refuse to negotiate Israel must act unilaterally, pulling out of all of Gaza and most of the West Bank and building a security fence to separate itself from the Palestinian territories.
The chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland has challenged Santander's explanation for pulling out of a deal to buy 316 of its branches.
The goal is to remove people who aren't "pulling their weight, " said one investment-banking head at a major bank, adding that "banks are overbuilt" in relation to the work available.
About a third of Chase's profits now come from investment banking, which produced a 28% return on equity in the last quarter. (Chase's retail bank managed a mere 19%.) Large regional banks are pulling off a similar trick.
In their haste to flee Riggs, which was eventually sold to another bank, the family signed an unusual agreement that prohibits it from pulling the money from Chevy Chase unless all 94 family members who are beneficiaries of the trust agree.
Getting the clean-up plans in place, says an official from the World Bank, which is co-funding the project, has been like pulling teeth.
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Conservatism has other rewards, too: being a big, safe-sounding bank in small countries has allowed it to pay uncompetitive interest rates and still keep pulling in deposits.
Appel took the painful decision of pulling out and, in a well-timed deal, sold DHL's stake in DeutschePostbank to Deustche Bank in September 2008.
Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit said at a recent Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference that there were opportunities for the bank to pick up share in trade finance, where French banks have traditionally been active and are now pulling out.
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