Efforts this year to curb liquidity and a surging economy including four interest-rate rises and seven increases in the amount of money commercial banks must deposit at the central bank have shown few results.
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Less time than it would take to deposit a check at the bank.
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Some advocate even more radical steps to reflate the economy, such as charging banks to deposit money at the central bank.
Most banks that now have cash prefer to deposit funds at the European Central Bank (ECB), which in turn lends it on to those that are short of it.
It is still possible to pay green fees to tee off at many Vietnamese clubs, and at least one bank has a deal whereby customers can deposit money and get free games at golf courses near the main cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Sure, much of that deposit tax was aimed at Russians, but the Cypriots bank there, too.
So inevitably a lot of it would end up back at the European Central Bank, on deposit overnight.
After the Cypriot parliament immediately and overwhelmingly rejected the bank-deposit tax, its government started looking at a hodge-podge of options to secure EU support, including a possible buy-in from Russian energy giant Gazprom.
CreditSights, a research firm, points out that the bank's deposit growth has been stagnant: deposits at its checking accounts grew only 1% in the second quarter compared with the year before, even though the bank has expanded hugely in the meantime.
That was on the deposit rate, the rate put on money left by commercial banks at the central bank, which it normally earns interest on.
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He adds that another big benefits of this sort of collectible is that, unlike art or wine, which can be very expensive to store and insure, the notes and documents that he does not keep at home can be stored in archival folders in a common bank safety deposit box and insured for pennies on the dollar.
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But an analysis of monthly deposit-growth rates at large commercial banks by Fox-Pitt, Kelton, an investment bank, shows a slowing that started in August 2003 and became more marked in 2004 and 2005.
It certainly seems that consumers are tired of bank fees, but it is totally unrealistic to expect banks to provide deposit products at a loss.
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The reforms would also create a deposit-insurance scheme: at the moment only deposits at Sberbank, the country's biggest bank, enjoy an implicit guarantee, because it is owned by the state.
Colombia is considering whether to reintroduce a measure to require foreign buyers to deposit 30% of the price of their financial investments in the country for a year at its central bank with no interest.
Federal deposit account insurance for prepaid cards applies differently than i does for bank accounts and may be capped at less than the value of all of the prepaid cards issued by a particular card program.
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At OneWest, formed by private-equity investors who bought IndyMac Bank assets and operations from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after its failure in 2008, a spokeswoman said the thrift is working with Mr. Brooks on a variety of foreclosure issues, adding that it has worked with him over the past year.
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