But at the very least, call the bank up and start to play chicken with them.
European banks were also trading higher, with Commerzbank up 9.4% and Deutsche Bank up 5.7% in Germany.
The "approach is particularly suited to firms which have the development backing, capital and infrastructure to allow them to set the bank up at speed, " the regulators said.
This has prompted the outgoing chairman Marcus Agius to make comments implying the board has no intention of breaking the bank up, which is what some critics would like.
In February last year, with the merger aborted, all change: the private-client and asset-management side had a glowing future, growing faster than the investment bank up to 2003, and with twice the rate of return.
In the Citigroup lawsuit, for example, lawyers needed to show that bank executives acted with scienter, or guilty knowledge, when they loaded the bank up with soon-to-be-worthless derivatives that were a byproduct of their mortgage-backed securities business.
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What also matters is whether so-called resolution procedures - emergency action when a bank gets into difficulties to break the relevant bank up, in order to protect depositors and the money transmission system - are perceived to be so robust as to minimise the potential for financial crisis.
Bergstein fired off a blunt e-mail to 50 fellow CEOs last month, spouting off about how Wingspan, the on-line bank set up by Bank One--the giant in his home city of Chicago--would be a costly flop.
So during the financial crisis, as trade finance dried up, the Export-Import Bank lived up to its mission and stepped up to fill the void.
The bank handles up to 80% of the government payroll, including salaries for policemen and teachers.
Since the second half began in July, China Construction Bank is up over 10 percent.
Bringing the bank fee up for vote in the Senate now is bad politics.
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From then on, as the bank gobbled up lenders across the map, Lewis was McColl's integrator.
Why has the Brazilian central bank jacked up interest rates to catastrophic levels of 40% and higher?
The bank said up to half of the planned job cuts were likely to be made in Edinburgh.
Will a top executive at the bank stand up, take full responsibility and admit his mistakes to the public?
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And Philadelphia-based Beneficial Bank set up financial libraries within its branches, so customers can read up on any number of money-related topics.
Concerned that Shnaider had no experience running critical infrastructure, the European bank gave up its option to buy 20% of the grid.
Tate Modern on London's South Bank moved up a place to second position with 5.3 million visitors - a 9% rise from 2011.
An arm of the government and the World Bank set up a program two years ago that is similar to one in Bosnia.
Is the Swiss National Bank setting up Switzerland for something similar?
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In short, if free markets had been governing bank activities up to 2008, a good number of those ultimately failed loans would never have been made at all.
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Once completed, Nobu Hotel will have 180 rooms, 16 suites, a private elevator bank leading up to the hotel tower, a separate check-in area and its own service staff.
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Sareb still is getting organized and may run into delays similar to those that have slowed the sale by a similar bad bank set up in Ireland in 2009.
At the time of the e-mails Citi owned Smith Barney, the retail wealth management arm of the bank made up of thousands of financial advisors and led by Sallie Krawcheck.
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Shares in European financials like Banco Santander and Deutsche Bank were up more than 4% on Thursday, while global U.S. banks like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley surged.
That's for all the reasons discussed in my previous blogs on this, including the basic problem that the public might not be able to work out what on earth the Bank was up to.
Douglas Adams, a director at Templeton, recalls how his firm had convinced one customer to invest in a Templeton fund until the customer's German bank held up the money transfer and reminded the customer of its own products.
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