Everything he says and does from his power base (which is appropriately down river from Westminster and on the other bank of the Thames) will be seen through the prism of his scarcely-concealed political ambition.
On the other hand, the bank's chairman and chief executive, Jamie Dimon, is utterly mortified that he allowed the loss to grow and grow, under his nose, and in spite of warnings in the media that one of the bank's London-based trading desks, home of the famous Whale, was engaging in huge and potentially risky transactions.
The bank which became more dependent than any other on loans from the Bank of England and the Treasury at the height of the 2007-8 financial crisis has almost completely repaid what it owes taxpayers.
The two "purposely withheld vital information on the sale of the bank from other share traders to implement their crime and violated the principles of transparency and equality between traders, " according to a statement from prosecutors.
On the other hand, the European central bank has given European banks billions of no-cost three-year loans and guess what, some of those banks have been using that money to buy newly issued short-term government paper.
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Bernanke and the other central bank policymakers on the Federal Open Markets Committee will keep the printing press rolling for years to come.
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On the other hand Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker openly states the U.S. economy is enduring a structural skills mismatch.
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If Barclays hasn't, in fact, obtained or offered such loans, its new rules say it must calculate the rate on the basis of other secured loans that the bank has been involved with (i.e. loans backed by collateral).
Blue Mountain bet against the London Whale last year a trade that Boaz Weinstein promoted at the 2012 same Harbor Investment Conference without knowing JPMorgan Chase was on the other end before helping the bank unwind its loss-making error.
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But a weaker U.S. economy and a slide in global confidence has put the shoe on the other foot with dealers fully expecting the central bank to move towards easing.
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The good news for the Mets, Panthers and all the other teams with bank names on the door: It's your partners' images that are at risk of taking a hit, not yours.
Our earlier use of this policy approach had little effect on the amount of currency in circulation or on other broad measures of the money supply, such as bank deposits.
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.
If so, the eventual level of interest rates will depend on how much help the Bank gets from other anti-inflationary forces.
On the other hand, a central bank that neglected its duties to play fiscal watchdog could risk its independence.
Germany has said its involvement in the Greek bailout is predicated on either a FTT or other bank taxes to recoup the bailout funds.
On the other hand, some of Bank Austria's returns have come from such volatile areas as investments in hedge funds and trading cash, foreign exchange and derivatives for the bank's own account.
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So, when a note pops open on a person's computer screen from Henry Paulson at Goldman Sachs, there is no doubting the fact that the investment bank's chief executive is on the other end waiting for a reply.
Its connections with Rome and the Vatican's reliance on it gave the bank immense clout both with other customers and with the church itself.
France, however, kept copies of the data on the HSBC account holders and returned other copies to HSBC on Mar. 3, according to the bank.
Building on the retail success, Kamath has mentored other thriving subsidiaries of the bank.
The investigation is predicated on the assumption that at least one other bank must have colluded with Barclays in any attempts to manipulate Libor rates.
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On the other hand, if a central bank responds by cutting official interest rates too drastically, it may push up inflation, or cause expectations of future inflation to rise.
Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.
Why didn't the committee call representatives of ACA Capital Management and German bank IKB, the alleged victims on the other side of Mr. Paulson's bet?
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Another idea on the docket: using the phone as a second or third factor for other bank channels.
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Chinese bankers, on the other hand, have been slower to lend, even with the Central Bank allowing the big state banks to use more of its cash reserves to loan to customers.
On 20 December 2012, the Government of Samoa requested support from the World Bank to work with other developing partners on a Damage and Loss assessment (DALA) as Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), reflecting on the successful and coordinated Government-led response following the tsunami of 2009.
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These include America's embargo on backing loans from the World Bank, which would impose higher environmental and other standards on big infrastructure projects such as Myitsone.
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