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...clients, playing a role in last fall's $100 billion takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro was a big moment. In the largest financial services deal ever signed, Fortis - part of a consortium alongside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Spain's Santander - put up $34 billion in return for ABN's Dutch banking business, among other assets...
...late Sunday at the latest, it was obvious that Fortis had committed a catastrophic folly. Less than a year after the blockbuster deal, the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg governments agreed to inject $16 billion into an ailing Fortis, laid low by ongoing uncertainty in global credit markets. In return for the lifeline, each of the three Benelux governments took a 49% share in Fortis' banking units in their own countries. The part-nationalization of Belgium's biggest lender, which, with a worldwide staff of 85,000, is Europe's largest to be bailed out so far since the credit crisis...
...colleague, draft the controversial $700-billion bailout plan that is currently being considered by Congress, Faust said. Faust said that though Forst would be in Washington for weeks as a temporary consultant and “can’t exactly say when” he’ll return, the executive vice president is still plugged into events at Harvard. “He’s still completely engaged here,” she said. “He calls me at 11 at night from the Treasury Department, and he doesn’t get any sleep...
...purchasing a portion of these depressed assets from troubled banks, the Treasury will alleviate some of this market congestion. While there are concerns with the fine points of the bailout plan, the broad strategy of immediately removing these securities from the market seems to be the best way to return to stability to such a volatile market. The issues afflicting our financial system are both far-reaching and immediate, and our elected officials must transcend petty politics in crafting novel solutions to such unprecedented problems. Much of the political squabble heard throughout the negotiations of the past week has been...
...Science suggest that attractiveness, likeability, and the appearance of trustworthiness play a negligible role in the instantaneous decisions we make about our future leaders. In the end, they suggest, the countenance of competence is all that matters. The hypothesis is heartening—that, even subconsciously, our eyes return to a genuine, if superficial, appraisal of ‘readiness’—but could certainly tip the ‘shallow campaign’ back towards white-haired Sen. McCain and his ‘hot’ campaign mate...