Providing unlimited liquidity to Cyprus would expose the European Central Bank's balance sheet to risk, particularly if Cyprus does end up crashing out of the euro.
But when the bank started running out of money, and he couldn't offload assets from his real estate portfolio, he concedes that the bank's balance sheet began to burgeon, and he had lost control.
Writing a loan down, on the other hand, means that it stays on the bank's balance sheet at a reduced but perhaps still inflated value, and the collateral backing the loan is not sold.
China's bank regulators have been working to curb bank off-balance-sheet lending.
One is through the wider use of convertible bonds which automatically switch into equity, bolstering the bank's balance-sheet if, for instance, its capital ratio falls below a trigger threshold.
His time would have been better used repairing Bank of America's balance sheet and regaining consumer trust.
The bank now boasts a sterling balance sheet, with impressive, ample capital.
If the European Central Bank has to expand its balance sheet to shore up ailing European economies, gold is likely to hit new records into 2012, said TD Securities.
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Indeed, the yen's previous rise partly reflects the Bank of Japan's reluctance to expand its balance sheet as much as the Fed, BOE, or the European Central Bank.
These may be noble quests, but let's be honest: Even a bank with a trillion-dollar balance sheet can only do so much.
That necessary amount of capital is based to a certain extent on the types of assets the bank chooses to carry on its balance sheet.
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An extended period of economic depression and fiscal austerity can trash the balance sheet of the healthiest bank.
Of the property stocks, Ang likes City Developments, which has a strong balance sheet and a land bank acquired at cheap prices.
The privately owned gold held in Turkish commercial banks has shown up on the balance sheet for the central bank, resulting in news reports of inflated official-sector reserves in the country, the consultancy said.
Steel, who at the time he was hired said "most areas of the company continue to perform well" may well be cleaning up Wachovia's balance sheet to prepare the bank for a sale.
The days when any large-ish bank could set up shop, load its balance sheet with debt and become an also-ran in anything from bond underwriting to complex derivatives are over.
However, the volume of products that it keeps off-balance-sheet where the bank technically isn't responsible to cover any losses fell.
The bank is well capitalized and plans to use its balance sheet for future acquisitions within its markets.
The balance sheet remains large, and the bank reserves created remain.
The HSBC branch on Manhattan's 14th Street was an imposing structure back in the day when a bank's physical size said something about its balance sheet.
Despite an ongoing criminal investigation into BPI and worries about the strength of its balance sheet, Mr Fazio gave the bank his approval to proceed with the bid.
They cite the sharp increase in the size of the Fed's balance sheet and the recent expansion of bank reserves and money measures as prima facie evidence of looming inflation.
Hudson City is holding up quite nicely, but it's not seeing the kind of recovery that the really beaten-up bank stocks did because it has a fairly strong balance sheet.
Do not be surprised if you fail to convince any of them that getting government bureaucrats to impose an artificial downsizing on the bank will magically result in a robust and healthy balance sheet.
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Hester has made progress improving the bank's health, trimming its once-sprawling balance sheet and returning most key businesses to profitability.
Buying masses of exchange-traded funds would expose the central bank directly to the stockmarket, and so put its balance sheet at risk.
About a year ago, economic forecasters claiming insight into Fed deliberations spread the word that the central bank had devised a methodical exit strategy to unwind its balance sheet.
Nor will our central bank seek once again to dramatically increase the size of its balance sheet.
Since these accounts exist as entries on the employer's balance sheet, rather than as cash in the bank, they are still tax-free.
Our investigation suggests that views are coalescing around new ways to think about running the bank with greater heed to the consequences of decisions on the balance sheet.
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