Big Banks

Big Banks Need to Fess up to Losses

(Source: The Wichita Eagle) – Whenever the leadership class feels nervous, you can count on some of them to offer the less-moneyed masses a bone to demonstrate they care. Warren Buffett says his idea of “shared sacrifice” is higher taxes [...]


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Fed Secretly Loaned $1.2 Trillion to Biggest Banks

(Source: sfexaminer) – WHAT: A persistent Freedom of Information drive uncovered the long-hidden news that the Federal Reserve lent banks $1.2 trillion to stop the economy from collapsing in 2008.


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U.S. Regulators Lack Key Tool to Unwind ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Banks

(Source: Bloomberg By Phil Mattingly) – U.S. regulators given new powers to dismantle “too-big-to-fail” financial firms are still working to draw up so-called living wills — a central component of the toolkit needed to prevent future bailouts.


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Biggest Banks Bail on Small-Biz Loans

(Source: By JAN NORMAN / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) – Many of the nation’s biggest banks are making significantly fewer small-business loans under a federally guaranteed program than they did before the recession, reports MultiFunding LLC, a Philadelphia-based small-business loan [...]


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Worrying About Big Banks’ Afterlives; GOP Intransigence on Taxes

(Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek) – Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C) stood out for all the wrong reasons in the Aug. 8 market decline. Shares of the two banks—both are among the roughly 40 U.S. institutions considered too big to [...]


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Fed Said to Track Basel Capital Rules for Biggest U.S. Banks

(Source: Bloomberg By Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins) – Federal Reserve officials are drawing up rules for the largest U.S. banks that won’t be more stringent than global capital standards agreed to in Basel, Switzerland, according to a person familiar [...]


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Cause of French Banks’ Fall Not Rating Fears

(Source: CNBC) – The big French banks were nursing their wounds Thursday after a huge sell-off Wednesday afternoon.


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Big Banks Shrinking as S.B.A. Lenders

(Source: New York Times By ROBB MANDELBAUM) – The Small Business Administration’s guaranteed business loan program is back. Nudged by stimulus provisions that reduced fees and increased guarantees, American banks made a record amount of S.B.A.-backed loans in 2010 (measured [...]


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China’s Big 4 State Banks Won’t Stop Lending to Railways Ministry

(Source: Business China) – August 1, China’s Big 4 state-owned banks have said they won’t suspend lending to the Ministry of Railways, a week after the high-speed train crash in east China’s Zhejiang province which claimed at least 40 lives [...]


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Bringing The Big Banks to Justice, One Mortgage At a Time

FORTUNE (Source: CNNMoney By Abigail Field) – Investors in mortgage-backed securities who got cleaned out during the housing bust aren’t going to take their losses lying down. The first act of investor revolt was organized by Kathy Patrick, a little-known [...]


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Big Banks Are Still Faking Home Loan Documents

(Source: Bnet By Alain Sherter) – After getting caught last year falsifying legal documents as part of conducting illegal foreclosures, big banks promised never to do it again. In April, more than a dozen large mortgage servicers also signed agreements [...]


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Bernanke Defends Capital Standards for Big Banks

(Source: Reuters By Dave Clarke) – Tougher capital requirements for the world’s largest banks will make the financial system safer while having a limited impact on the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.


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Are Big Banks Doomed to Fail?

FORTUNE -(Source: CNN Money By Allan Sloan) – Have you ever watched something unfold, knowing that it hasn’t got a prayer of succeeding?


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Big Banks May Soon Shed Jobs

NEW YORK (Source: By Michael J. MooreBloomberg News ) — Financial firms, shunned by investors to a degree seen only once in the last 20 years, are becoming a smaller part of the economy as they deal with a past [...]


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