In its first public enforcement action, the CFPB found that third-party call-center vendors of Capital One Bank pressured or misled customers into paying for payment protection and credit monitoring products when they activated their credit cards, according to a press release.
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Also, as I mentioned last Friday, Royal Bank of Scotland has what is known as contingent capital, or a contractual arrangement with the Treasury that it can call on taxpayers again for capital in a crisis - and this contingent capital should in some ways be seen by regulators as helping RBS to meet the new capital requirements (because future taxpayer help is guaranteed).
Will Herbalife go to zero - OR force a huge Pershing Capital margin call?
Locals call it Australia's Hummer capital, though more Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs can be seen than the American off-road vehicle.
The city-state's ruling Social Democrats, who also run Germany as a whole, and the Democratic Socialists, as the ex-communists now call themselves, are deep into negotiations to run the capital together, after the breakdown of the Social Democrats' talks with both the Greens and the Free Democrats, Germany's liberals.
The waters are heading for Bangkok, and an emergency call has gone out for people to donate sandbags to protect the ill-defended capital.
Buffett then reiterated his call to raise the tax rate on capital gains, which would increase the income-tax rate paid by the wealthy.
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There is also a supply side to that story - not unrelated to today's call from the Bank of England for banks to raise more capital.
Capital One said it recommends customers should call if planning to use their cards while travelling abroad - but again they do not have a dedicated system set up just for this purpose.
The capital increase allows Deutsche Bank to act from a position of strength with only modest dilution to shareholders, while putting the bank's ultimate 10% capital-ratio target within reach, the lender said in a slide show for an analyst call scheduled for Tuesday morning.
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