And because the ICB seems to think that a standalone bank could usefully have an existing infrastructure, that makes a link between Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks and the Project Verde assets make more sense.
This threat makes little sense: You'd think it would cost a bank MORE to process lots of little transactions than a few big transactions.
Instead, I opted for a carbon tax and a bank tax because I think we should put a price on carbon and on the risks bankers have been taking with our money.
Daniel Gros of the Centre for European Policy Studies and Thomas Mayer of Deutsche Bank think the EFSF should be registered as a bank and allowed to borrow from the ECB, using the government bonds it buys as collateral.
Think about what happens when a bank taps those reserves to make a loan.
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Now a solid majority opposes the bank bailout, and 20% think it was a good idea.
There's a misnomer that people think the bank wants the property.
The Maytas debacle "raised serious credibility issues for Satyam and the board, but I don't think the World Bank issue is a serious problem, " Chowdhry said.
"It is deeply worrying and sets a dangerous precedent, " he said and advised anyone with a second home in Europe or savings in a European bank to think very carefully.
But, unlike the common eurobond proposal, the authors think that turning the EFSF into a bank would at least be legal, under the current treaties governing the EU. It should also be quicker.
They are able to price well and their style is that they target a bank that they think they can turn around and then try to get a controlling stake so they can have a say in management.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs now stand alone as Wall Street's independent broker-dealers, and many don't think they can last too long without a bank deal.
If you think it's a legitimate call from your bank, hang up and call the institution's customer-service number yourself.
Mr. FREDERICK CANNON (Keefe, Bruyette and Woods): That doesn't mean we don't think there'll be a significant number of bank failures on an ongoing basis.
Bancassurance, for instance, and the vogue for cross-selling, were the logic behind last year's merger of Citicorp and Travelers, a bank and an insurer which think they will sell customers each other's products.
This fall in spreads makes sense only if you think (a) that Resona was absolutely the last bank to have troubles, or (rather more likely) (b) that Japanese banks are in such dire straits that they will all be nationalised anyway.
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If you think these currencies won't drop further, find a bank or broker who can buy local treasury bills or high- quality bank deposits.
That is different from the Libor methodology, in which banks post rates at which they think they can borrow, rather than rates for a theoretical bank.
Given that Libor is based on the rates at which banks lend to each other (more exactly, the rate at which they think another bank will lend to them) this is a serious problem.
Some analysts, looking at a recently released Chinese central bank report, think the Chinese will adjust the currency's value in the spring or the summer, but the evidence of the intention to do so is ambiguous at best.
Now when a bank prints money to do this, I think the yen will go down and inflationary expectations will go up.
And I just want you to look at this room and think about how that with just a few evenings on a phone bank -- look around, look at this room.
And I want you to think about how with just a few more evenings on a phone bank, just a few more days knocking on doors -- (applause) -- just look at this room.
But economists at Bank of America, in a recent report, think it could become a significant drag relatively soon.
It is not clear why Poland's hawkish central bankers are the ones making all the headlines at the moment, while the doves are staying relatively quiet, but there is good reason to think the country's next central bank move will indeed be a cut rather than a hike.
"I think the bank is really doing what it should, namely to have a sense of direction, to maintain and preserve stability and confidence in the medium term, which is essential in the crisis, " he said.
The only possible line of compromise would be if the government accepted something like the Scottish model, where teachers use a bank of external tests, which they set when they think pupils are ready and which they mark themselves.
The market rewarded the bank with a rally of nearly 8%, and analysts think it may not be long before the ax falls again.
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This basically makes any site you visit think the Pocket PC is a PC running IE, very useful for when your bank doesn't want to support mobile devices, but you still want to log-in.
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