One was shut.

His mother, Marianne, was a secretary in a bank, and his father, Colin, a stockbroker.

Straightforward size limits on banks also find no favor.

BNDES (Brazil's National Bank of Economic and Social Development) is a public bank.

Be it because of a sovereign default or because of large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility.

Consider the case of a bank headquartered in Italy, but with an important subsidiary in Germany.

One major bank building (ING's Amsterdam headquarters) in the Netherlands was constructed to be autonomous and artistic as well.

Consider a bank with liabilities of 1 billion.

One shortcoming of the measure consists in the fact that the crisis has hit both universal and specialized banks.

The Bank AL Habib Limited, run by the Dawood Habib family group of companies, is one of the growing banks in Pakistan.

The big Asian central banks are oppressing us, one young trader recently complained to me.

One day a major bank, insurance company, or automaker announces a record loss.

ICICI Bank is one of the Big Four banks of India, along with State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda.

So did a director of a great bank, a brilliant economist, when he was suspected of financial crimes.

Instead he worked at a bank in Canary Wharf, London before enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting.

As a group, they joined in the adulation of Greenspan, whom one leading economist proclaimed the greatest central banker who ever lived.

As central banks brought policy interest rates down to zero, no one cared that gold yields no interest.

You basically published something there, ran into trouble with a bank, then the news service there was injuncted from running the story.

But securitized credit taken off one bank s balance sheet usually ended up on another bank s books.

So, if inflation is low and stable, central banks cannot be blamed for low long term rates.

Should one of these banks run into trouble because of a sovereign debt default, the necessary rescue funds will be readily available.

To many, both in and outside of Greece, this stance was peculiar billions had been spent saving big banks, but evidently saving a country of eleven million people was taboo!

One of the key challenges is the negative feedback loop between the weaknesses of many banks and the doubts about the peripheral countries sovereign debt.

A large money market fund broke the buck and investment banks that relied on the commercial paper market had difficulty financing their operations.

And a Portuguese banker declared that, while banks should reduce their exposure to risky government bonds, government pressure to buy more was overwhelming.

Banks in the eurozone came under pressure, and interbank tensions increased.

In 2005 2006, my firm acquired 330 megawatt onshore projects in Germany and France. Our fund contributed the equity, and a bank lent the money needed to finance construction.

Then he revealed that his wife was doing business with one of Montesinos's banker friends and that his family members had obtained highly paid government posts.

In case of insolvency, a bank s computers would not be turned off, its employees would not instantly be dismissed, and payment transactions would not collapse.

Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.

IVR or phone phishing Phone phishing (or vishing ) uses a rogue interactive voice response (IVR) system to recreate a legitimate sounding copy of a bank or other institution's IVR system.

How to Bail out Good Banks and Let Bad Banks Fail

In the end, both have to be bailed out by central banks.

The implicit subsidy to banks means that German banks have an advantage over those of other countries.

There was a lot of bank rescue in economic stimulus and there was a lot of economic stimulus in rescuing banks.

We need a way to bail out good banks but allow bad banks to fail.

I read news and I also heard from relatives and people who work in Egyptian banks that Egyptian clients are withdrawing their money from the foreign banks especially Citibank.

When a bank s capital falls below a pre specified limit, its cocos automatically convert from debt to equity at a fraction of their previous price.

As central banks venture farther into uncharted territory, advocates argue that at worst they will do no harm. In fact, no one really knows.

The Volcker rule? It is unlikely that the impact would be significant in the UK, or, by implication, elsewhere outside the US.

But how much openness is too much?

When banks stopped providing short term liquidity to other banks and industrial companies, central banks filled the gap.

Layla was an experienced bank robber.

I had a conversation with one of the investment bankers who, at the time when you basically sold Virgin Records and invested heavily in Virgin Atlantic, and his view was that you were trading, you know, the world's fourth biggest record company for the twenty fifth biggest airline and that you were out of your mind.

It might have been hoped that the bank supervisors who stress tested the banks would try to estimate the size of the banks losses on toxic assets.