During the period there occurred two huge bankruptcies: the sarakin lender Takefuji and the Japan Venture Bank.
For investors who have been brave (or contrarian) enough to venture into bank stocks, they have been quite rewarding.
Venture notified Bank One sometime on May 28 of the insolvency petition.
Partnership employees such as Shelia Martin, the head of the new bank venture, must go through a locked door into the new office space to work on bank business.
In 2007, it became a 50:50 joint venture with Halifax Bank of Scotland, later Lloyds Banking Group.
Through a joint venture with Absa Bank, Woolworths offers financial services such as loans, debit cards and home insurance solutions to its customers.
The two firms are creating a joint-venture Russian investment bank, into which Brunswick will inject its brokerage and Warburg will put its local corporate-finance and debt businesses.
Anton Periquet, head of equities research in Manila for Deutsche Regis Partners, a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and a Philippine brokerage, likes Ayala Land, 58% owned by Ayala Corp. and the country's largest landlord, with commercial and residential properties.
Anton Periquet, head of equities research in Manila for Deutsche Regis Partners, a joint venture between Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) and a Philippine brokerage, likes Ayala Land, 58% owned by Ayala Corp. and the country's largest landlord, with commercial and residential properties.
Sainsbury's Bank was formed 16 years as a joint venture between Sainsbury's and Bank of Scotland.
Investors included a mix of angels, bank executives, venture capitalists and foundations, according to B Revolution founder Dirk Sampselle.
After every senior vice president gave it a try, the bank suggested a joint venture with Global.
In 2006 Danone and Grameen Bank started a joint venture in Bangladesh, where Grameen had been operating for 23 years.
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But, whereas Mr Fazio's interventions cost him his reputation and eventually his job, Mr Wellink is unlikely to venture so far in the Dutch bank's defence.
The usual currency of the venture capitalist is equity, not bank loans, not least because Internet start-ups are notoriously bad at making money and so have little free cash to service debt.
It's unclear why Credit Suisse Strategic Partners, the secondary fund business of the bank, pursued the Reijtenbagh venture.
Known as CICC, it is a joint venture between state-owned China Construction Bank and the New York investment bank Morgan Stanley.
Knaster is a board member at Alfa Bank and oil joint-venture TNK-BP.
Lest it be accused of loan sharking, Sanwa Bank points out that the venture is aimed at untapped middle-income, middle-risk consumers (apparently it is already getting calls from school teachers and tax inspectors) who cannot borrow money at banks but flinch at traditional consumer-finance rates.
Even today, every dollar of venture capital Tableau has raised is in its bank account, says Chabot.
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In Britain, for example, Goodwin's niche brands besides NatWest and RBS range from Coutts (bankers to the Queen of England) to Tesco Personal Finance (a bank that's a joint venture with the supermarket chain) to DirectLine (insurance sales over the telephone).
The scandal concerns contracts for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, a dam construction venture which has been partly funded by the World Bank.
Gerald Brady, a managing director at Silicon Valley Bank in charge of outreach to corporate venture groups, said he had seen "a very noticeable pickup across almost every industry center" as corporations turn to Silicon Valley to get a handle on innovation.
Sanwa Bank recently set up Mobit, a joint venture with Promise, the third-largest consumer-finance group.
But Bank of America, FleetBoston Financial, First Union, Bank One and Wells Fargo all have big venture-capital operations.
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Raynes' suit claims her father used her trust like a piggy bank, illegally borrowing millions to use as venture capital and shifting investment losses to the trust.
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