The intricacies of restructuring assets and saving banks can be hard even for the experts to understand.

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Gazprom executives say they are in the process of restructuring noncore assets.

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"I am restructuring to get rid of assets that don't fit, " he says.

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If there is an insolvency, it would be in the public's best interest to allow the insurance entities to continue, however it will require a restructuring and even liquidation of the other assets within AIG's portfolio.

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As part of the restructuring process, the firm has sold key assets over the past few months, including its US headquarters in New York and some of its shares in M3, a medical research and marketing firm.

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Along with five others, they had been forced to draw up restructuring plans after falling short of the 8% ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets that is considered the acceptable minimum by international financial regulators (by more than six percentage points in the case of Commercial Bank of Korea).

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If Cyprus tried to force a restructuring against the wishes of investors, it would likely end up being sued and its international assets put at risk of court-ordered seizures.

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