To state the bloomin' obvious, when a bank can't borrow from anywhere, even from the central bank, to repay its own debts as they fall due, well that's what causes panic and bank runs - because no one would leave their money in a bank that can't repay its debts.
So too can their chairman, Leszek Balcerowicz, the central-bank governor, whose term runs until 2007.
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That made them more vulnerable to panics which, like bank runs, are self-fulfilling.
Mr Kell, a bank worker, said watching re-runs of Gavin and Stacey, which was broadcast from 2007 to 2010, was helping keep his spirits up.
Main point: there are more bank runs (in the fiat-sense of the term) than you can count.
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Zubyr Soomro, former No. 2 at Citibank's emerging markets division in London, now runs Pakistan third-largest bank, UBL. The new governor of the central bank is Ishrat Hussain, 54, who served as the World Bank's director for Central Asia in Washington.
And the World Bank, for better or worse, runs on auto-pilot whoever leads it.
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"We have gone from mobile as an experiment to mobile banking being a core experience that is just as important as the branches, call centers and the Internet, " said Ryan McInerney, who runs the New York bank's consumer-banking operations.
And a common deposit-insurance fund could also credibly reduce the risk of bank runs in vulnerable countries.
Bell has been in excellent one-day form for Warwickshire in the Clydesdale Bank 40, scoring 340 runs in six matches at an average of 56.66.
The euro's strength has followed what appears to be the receding threat of a euro-zone breakup, thanks to pledges from the European Central Bank to stop speculative runs on the region's banks and governments.
Even after allowing for bad loans to local-government investment companies, it runs at 80% of GDP, the bank estimates, about the same as Britain's last year and well below Greece's.
Now, Mr. Greenfield, who runs an urban-design practice in Manhattan, is looking for a new bank.
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