Word: bankses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Do you think his PPIP [public-private-investment program] is a smart move in getting the toxic assets off the balance sheets of banks? The premise that private investors would purchase these toxic assets on the assumption that as time passes, the value of these toxic assets will improve - I...
And you don't agree with that? I don't, no. I think these assets should be purged, and the only way to purge them is for the government to take them over and to relieve private holders [the banks] of these assets.
Indonesia has also been surprisingly unscathed by the global financial crisis. Though exports are down, the country recorded 4.4% growth in the first quarter of this year. Local banks are unburdened with the kind of debt crippling financial institutions in other countries. A monthly consumer-confidence survey elicited the second...
Capital requirements are an area in which many observers think dumbing down is in order. Regulators spent decades fine-tuning their risk-weighted capital rules, in some cases using the supposedly sophisticated risk models developed by banks themselves. The result was ratios of debt to capital that topped 35 to...
To become rich and famous in the depression '30s, a fellow could make movies, play baseball or rob banks. John Dillinger chose Way 3, and for a while he enjoyed the celebrity of a Clark Gable or a Lou Gehrig. Newspapers breathlessly limned his exploits as he made sizable withdrawals...