The sale and run-off of non-core assets, first set out in early 2009 at the start of the RBS's three-to-five-year recovery plan, meant a fifth of the balance sheet was to be non-core, and the balance sheet was to be halved in size.
It continues to shrink its balance-sheet and to look to sell non-core assets.
The sector may be paying a price for its cleverness, and for all those complex products and-off balance-sheet vehicles that seemed to be working so well in the good years.
The four-inch Fun felt a good half-inch smaller than its spec sheet implied -- more akin to an iPhone in size.
America's government is working hard to revive markets for securitised debt, aware that banks lack the balance-sheet capacity to absorb all of those credit-card receivables and auto loans.
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Or to buy short-term paper issued by off-the-balance-sheet financial units of major banks that were not transparent to the investment community.
United - with only one clean sheet to their name this season - fielded centre-halves Wes Brown and Jonny Evans - in for the injured Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand - but it was their front men who were the busier pairing.
This is partly because the combined bank is obliged under European state-aid rules to shrink its balance-sheet in return for the help it has received from the government.
The plan to drill through the Antarctic ice-sheet to sample the hidden waters of Lake Ellsworth in December involves BAS and NOC and other bodies and is led by a professor from Bristol University.
In a building nearby, workers in navy-blue uniforms use computer-aided designs from Tata engineers to create tools and dies used to make those sheet-metal stampings.
So although a rate cut remains on the table, the Fed will continue for the moment to rely on the growing use of its balance-sheet to counter the credit crunch.
On the other hand, weakening consumer credit in America and uncertainty over its exposure to off-balance-sheet assets will add to the subprime worries.
In April, it shed its tabloid format and cheap newsprint, reappearing as a glossy mag designed to appeal to the sort of clever professional women in their mid-20s to mid-40s who have long yearned for a gossip sheet they are not embarrassed to be seen reading.
China has been making strenuous actions to buy mines of RE ore around the world, to maintain its dominance of the global markets, and I wonder whether this will extend to Greenland, where the melting ice-sheet is likely to ease access to the rich veins of REs and other elements that the world needs to maintain its technologies and energy supplies.
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With the non-exclusive tag, his team has the right to match any offer sheet, or get two first-round draft picks in return for allowing him to leave.
Rather than encourage private-sector deleveraging, they now want the private sector to take on yet more debt and are prepared to use the public-sector balance sheet to facilitate it.
On the one hand, the Fed has to be feeling pressure relative to their ever-expanding balance sheet that has swelled to disturbing levels.
With new management holding the reins -- the bank's chief executive was replaced by MarcelRohnerMarcel Rohner in July , who also took over the investment-banking division Monday from Huw Jenkins -- UBS had a "clean sheet" to work with.
With new management holding the reins -- the bank's chief executive was replaced by Marcel Rohner in July , who also took over the investment-banking division Monday from Huw Jenkins -- UBS had a "clean sheet" to work with.
With the game seemingly petering out to provide a satisfactory share of the spoils for each side, Brazil substitute Ramires broke from the script and struck a shot from 25 yards in injury-time which took a deflection and was goalbound until Eduardo intervened with a good one-handed save to preserve Portugal's 100% clean-sheet record in the tournament.
Combine all that with an edge-to-edge sheet of Gorilla Glass on the face and you've got a rather solid and premium-feeling device.
Part of the blame goes to off-balance-sheet equipment leases that EDS has handed off to banks.
Before moving there, Mr. Rambeau said he researched everything from his community's actuarial projections to several years of balance-sheet statements before he felt comfortable enough to buy in.
In today's metal-based gadgets, you either need to bend a piece of sheet metal, or die-cast with an inferior alloy like aluminum or magnesium.
If the numbers on the prosecutors' score-sheet are to continue growing, another spider, along with a web, is needed.
In February 2010, Greece admitted that through assistance from Goldman Sachs, it used off-balance-sheet transactions to hide its deficit and national debt.
Above all, the task-force will want to see evidence that GM can repair its balance-sheet and become capable of generating positive free cashflow in a car market somewhat bigger than today's, but smaller than in the past.
Although Mrs Fastow filed false tax statements and created and administered an off-balance-sheet special-purpose entity that Enron used to hide its control of some Californian wind farms, some reports have claimed she was an innocent who fell under the malevolent influence of her husband.
My take: all this saber rattling about high royalties and windfall profits taxes is designed to scare the minnows out of the water and clear the way for the government to make a development deal with the big guys who have the balance sheet and know-how to get the job done.
It is widely believed that using guarantees to increase the firepower of the EFSF in either of these ways would impose so much additional strain on France's public-sector balance sheet that France is likely to lose its cherished AAA rating - which would then make the eurozone even more dependent on the financial strength of Germany.
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