According to the Stratfor Global Intelligence Update, the most daunting short-term banking concern in China is the insolvency of the country's 40, 000 rural credit cooperatives.
These include Swiss private banking concern Julius Baer which is the third best performer in Europe with a return of more than 3% over the past week.
Now Ketterer likes banking and insurance concern ING Group, applauding the Dutch company's financial health, its willingness to ditch lagging business units and its push into new locales.
She has previously warned against rushing into banking union out of concern that Germany would face further financial demands.
His appointment shows a shift in concern from banking to budgets.
According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
Ideas for new measures abound at America's Treasury Department, which realised the strength of financial sanctions in 2005, when it designated a Macau-based bank, Banco Delta Asia, as a money-laundering concern because of its banking services to dodgy North Korean individuals and firms and later cut it off from any dealing with American banks.
"We do think the Volcker rule address a core concern we had with proprietary trading by banking entities, " says Barr.
Months later, the Crown Office confirmed an investigation had been under way for some time because of "the degree of public concern about recently reported issues in the banking sector".
European officials have expressed concern over the stability of the country's banking sector, which is struggling under billions of euros of bad debts.
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Concern centres on China's informal lending or shadow banking market - rich individuals and businesses that offer loans at interest rates spanning from 14% to 70%.
There's the obvious concern about people spending less money and the difficulty in securing loans as the banking industry tries to claw its way out of meltdown mode.
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Of special concern to the prosecutors was an alleged conflict of interest between Merrill Lynch share research and investment banking arm.
The fear of contagion is the real concern here as future sovereign debt issues in other countries could put more pressure on the global banking system amidst a continuing tight credit market.
In reaching this decision, it was recognised that widespread concern about Fred Goodwin's decisions meant that the retention of a knighthood for 'services to banking' could not be sustained.
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