At the Bank of Japan's October monetary-policy meeting, Nobuyuki Nakahara, one of the independent members of the bank's policy board, proposed that the bank set a price-level target and examine ways to buy foreign bonds.
Should that happen, Welch said he would ask the bank's human-resources department to secure time without pay for the bank's in-house brawler, thus ensuring his job doesn't go anywhere.
They look at whether the government of the country which is home to that bank would bail the bank out in a crisis - thus reducing losses for the bank's creditors - and whether the relevant government could in practice afford to bail out the bank.
The coming weeks, leading to the second Greek election, will see the interplay of opinion polls, depositor behaviour and the European Central Bank's bi-weekly decisions on the Bank of Greece's lending capacity.
For almost all the negatives about the bank perceived from the outside, the bank's non-executives and a good number of its biggest investors would point to extenuating factors.
The Co-op's bank will operate off Lloyds' IT systems, and Lloyds is providing the senior management of the Co-op's enlarged bank.
Even as he targets international trade through the guaranteed-loan program of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, he is watching the home front--literally, with mortgages for developers who build low-income housing in southern California.
The letter says that on Friday 10 October 2008, the bank's non-executive directors agreed that Sir Fred should leave the bank "and that it was in the company's interest for there to be an orderly handover to his successor".
Hungary's new central-bank governor is looking for ways to jump-start the country's recession-hit economy, with one possibility being to use the bank's reserves to bail out households with debts in foreign currencies.
HSBC's underlying profits - which ignore one-time accounting effects as well as the impact of changes in the bank's creditworthiness - rose 18%.
The rest are to be bundled into the bank's private-client and asset-management division, which houses Deutsche Bank 24, the retail-banking arm (which already serves some small firms in any case), private banking (for richer customers) and Deutsche's online broker, called maxblue.
The book gives us a glimpse into the greed and misjudgements of the people in charge that led to Lehman's spectacular demise and the far-reaching consequences of the bank's collapse.
With importers now getting their dollars in Hong Kong - at the better international rate - the People's Bank is getting landed with even more of them.
But the ECB is prevented both by its own constitution and by the passionately held views of the Bundesbank - the German central bank and the ECB's most influential shareholder - from purchasing substantially more than that.
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.
The Bank of England and America's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have issued a joint paper which is in essence an action plan for making the biggest banks - such as the UK's Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, and Citigroup and JP Morgan in the US - safer.
While acknowledging the bank's past anti-money-laundering and sanctions failings, he said the bank's performance had been strong enough to allow it to increase its dividend by 10%.
Instead, anticipation by the markets of Mr Abe's elections, and the resulting flood of newly-created yen from the central bank's change of attitude, has seen the yen fall steadily in recent months from all-time highs against the dollar and other major currencies, helping provide some relief to the country's beleaguered exporters.
And even fans of Danamodal, the country's bank-restructuring outfit, admit that the process is less transparent than it was in Indonesia and Thailand.
With all the uncertainties about how the Co-op will fill the hole in Co-op Bank's capital resources, it seems unlikely that the PRA will remain quite so arms length.
Bradesco is Brazil's largest private-sector bank and the country's third-largest financial services company.
At Dresdner Bank, the tax-collectors scalped the bank's leadership: bad publicity created by their raid was the main reason for a messy boardroom coup in December last year.
But the board-member's bank tends to win merger-and-acquisition business from the firm.
The SEC is investigating its IPO practices, class actions are piling up and somewhere in the bank's electronic files there is an incriminating e-mail from one of the bank's analysts.
In his lawsuit Cunningham claims that Borda--who helped arrange the loan--was advised of the bank's plans in late 2000 but didn't tell Cunningham then.
By the end of this month it hopes to complete the sale of 15% of Pekao, the country's second-largest bank, on the Warsaw stock exchange.
In recent days, Iceland has taken over the country's second-biggest bank, fixed the exchange rate of its plummeting currency, and asked Russia for a euro4 billion loan as it scrambled to stop the collapse of its economy.
The first was the government's handling of the bizarre affair of Italy's central-bank governor, Antonio Fazio, who is accused of favouring a takeover bid by Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) for Antonveneta, a larger Italian bank, over a rival bid from a Dutch bank, ABN Amro.
The trouble is that these tactics hardly improve the transparency of the Bank's decision-making, something in which it has, until now, taken great pride.
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