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...media wrote or broadcast critically about global financing, investment banks and subprime loans - before the crisis of the last weeks. Investment banks and their CEOs and staff were hailed as heroes. Now they suddenly are the villains. The role of the media could also be on the balance sheet, now that it seems to be time for the big blame game. Roger Almeberg, HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN...
...infusions or full-blown nationalization, making it one of the grimmest days in the history of European finance. Among the high-profile casualties were Fortis, Belgium's largest bank; the venerable British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley; and Germany's Hypo Real Estate, which has a massive $560 billion balance sheet and is a big player in the domestic securities market. As the governments stepped in, the message they sent to the public was supposed to be reassuring: Don't panic - your money is safe. Most European nations have some sort of deposit insurance that would reimburse account holders, at least...
...largest to be bailed out so far since the credit crisis began. It was a last resort, coming after all efforts to flog the bank or its parts to rivals amounted to nothing. Fortis agreed to dump the once-prized stake in ABN, which weighed heavily on its balance sheet...
...need of chasing growth in these kind of exotic instruments," says Ramirez. Santander's strategy - mirrored at rival Spanish lenders - owes much to the country's regulators. The Bank of Spain, which scrutinizes lenders in the country, has discouraged banks from setting up the kind of off-balance sheet vehicles that tripped up rival international lenders...
That's why researchers like Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, stationed on a barren speck of land near the heart of Greenland's ice sheet to decode the island's climatic history, is among TIME's heroes for the environment. These scientists, activists, financiers and political and religious leaders--chronicled in the following pages--display a passion for the planet that just might save...