Yet these reassuring figures cannot accurately convey the health of the commercial banks.
The central bank will force the commercial banks it regulates to accept dubious government paper, thus jeopardizing the banks themselves.
The commercial banks themselves are also trying to improve debt collection.
The institutions were an idealistic, independent alternative to the commercial banks.
"We still have a nice book of NRI clients and we want to grow this business, but we won't be as aggressive as the commercial banks, " said Mr. Kong.
The commercial banks, led by Deutsche Bank, that run the London Club negotiations with Russia, have tolerated its pleas of poverty, perhaps with an eye to future business there.
Because SMEs were effectively locked out of both the public equity and bond markets, most turned to the commercial banks, which were, by far, the largest providers of capital during that period.
Global Witness calls on the oil companies and the commercial banks that deal with Angola to use their leverage to demand greater accountability and openness in the use of the country's money.
First, it provided funds to the commercial banks.
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Terminate all Western government guaranteed loans to the USSR and other Warsaw Pact countries which, by definition, transfer the risk of any future Soviet debt rescheduling or default from the commercial banks involved to Western taxpayers and which artificially lower the interest rates on such loans.
My supposition here is that these two banks were the basic commercial banks for the island.
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Having the certainty of discount window access is exactly why the biggest commercial banks are the biggest swaps dealers.
The bigger the role that central banks have in offering liquidity support, the less commercial banks need to worry about their liquidity risk which is why tougher regulation of liquidity is required.
Each Fed bank issued its own banknotes, much the way commercial banks did in the previous century.
Stress tests of the largest 17 commercial banks showed that most of the banks seem resilient to isolated shocks, including a sharp reduction in real estate and other asset values, shifts in the yield curve, and changes in the exchange rate.
In a bold and symbolic move in February, he hired Michael Mayo, a banking analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston who had outraged that firm's investment bankers by knocking the stocks of commercial banks the investment bankers wanted merger and underwriting deals from.
Quite the opposite: the 17 commercial banks' average return on equity was -21.5% in the twelve months to the end of March.
It involved swimming in the same pool with the trading desks of the big commercial banks.
"The true commercial banks they've pretty much kept their discipline, " said Howard Michaels, chairman of real-estate finance advisory firm Carlton Group.
With that in mind, I arranged to meet with several lenders at one of the largest commercial banks in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Nearly all of the large commercial banks back then would have failed.
Central banks control the narrowest measure of the money supply, called the monetary base typically, currency plus the reserves that commercial banks hold with the central bank.
In a bold and symbolic move in February, he hired former Credit Suisse First Boston banking analyst Michael Mayo, who had outraged that firm's investment bankers by knocking the stocks of commercial banks from which the investment bankers wanted merger and underwriting deals.
Don't be surprised if the administration pushes for the controversy over commercial banks' handling of derivatives trading to be addressed by the so-called "Volcker Rule, " which would prohibit commercial banks from making speculative bets for their own account--known as proprietary trading--as opposed to the benefit of their customers.
The RBI expects commercial banks to pass on the benefits of the rate cuts to their customers over the next three-four months, Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said at a press conference.
There is another benefit of egg-freezing technology that many people don't know about: If your own frozen eggs don't survive thawing or fertilization or fail to grow into robust embryos, you can go online to one of the many commercial egg banks popping up across the country and order a batch of frozen eggs donated by a woman who looks like you.
The state-run commercial banks, once the tools of the government and therefore happy to prop up loss-making enterprises, are now more brutal in cutting credit.
"The fact that the banks and commercial capital markets are meeting Jaguar Land Rover's funding is a clear sign of confidence in the company, its products and the automotive sector, " said U.K. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who played a key role in the negotiations with Jaguar Land Rover.
NatWest's predicament is the same as that of most other commercial banks around the world that are trying to barge into the big league of investment banks.
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