"Right now Deutsche Bank can attract Spanish savers anxious that their own banks may become insolvent, " says Barbieri.
The reverse should be the case, since plummeting share prices suggest companies are more likely to become insolvent.
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Data regarding firms that become insolvent, are expelled or otherwise cease business operations is removed from public disclosure within two years.
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The company struggled to pay back the money it had borrowed for acquisitions, and rumors spread that it might become insolvent.
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Its charges will take into account both the funding of pension schemes and the risk that their companies may become insolvent.
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First of all, the FDIC lacks the staff to oversee, let alone run, several large and complex banks which may become insolvent.
And, in fact, if Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan were elected into office, Medicare would become insolvent even before the end of their first term.
Moreover, the German and French banks that hold Greek government debt would have their debt-to-equity ratios severely impaired and they could quite arguably become insolvent themselves.
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Amounts that you paid as a deposit to a contractor which has since become insolvent are deductible if you are unable to recover your deposit.
"The priorities of this trust will be to work with the private sector and regulators to identify institutions that are weak and take remedies to strengthen them before they become insolvent, " he said.
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Some banks would still not have enough capital, but under Mr Paulson's original plan, the state could put equity in them, or, if they become insolvent, take them over and run them down.
That debt was made to disappear temporarily so that at the end of the quarter Lehman would not appear to investors, counterparties, regulators and rating agencies as a firm about to become insolvent.
Daewoo, the second-largest, had become insolvent in 1999 and was trying to sell its bankrupt car division to Ford, but the Americans walked away during the due diligence, presumably after learning how bad things really were.
John McCain of Arizona called for the creation of a mortgage and financial institutions trust, which would work with the private sector and regulators to identify institutions that are weak and take remedies to strengthen them before they become insolvent.
At that point, we become insolvent.
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Thanks to reporting by Bloomberg today, we are getting the view that JPM in London has run amuck trying to become a major profit center by specializing in corporate derivative transactions similar to those used in the lead-up to the mortgage meltdown in 2007-2008 that caused several banks to become insolvent and need to be bailed out.
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Its auditors judged that if the transaction went ahead the company would become technically insolvent.
Sure, the U.S. Government may be, or become, insolvent but remember, it was Uncle Sam that bailed out Wall Street five years ago.
The Fed needs to be sure it does not become a crutch for insolvent financial firms, distorting credit allocation and risk taking.
There is a second fascinating question too: how and when does it become clear that markets are stressed not for mad irrational reasons but because banks are in fact insolvent or bust?
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