If so, regulators might need to increase sharply the amount of capital that financial firms hold to protect themselves against extreme conditions.
China's trust companies are mainly controlled by banks, other major state-owned firms or local governments, although some foreign financial institutions hold minority stakes.
That is probably a reference to fears of a liquidity crunch at the end of the year as financial institutions hold back to avoid millennium-bug accidents indeed, such fears may make the Fed delay raising rates until next year.
Similarly, advisory committee members must report to FDA any financial interests they hold related to the subject matter of the advisory committee meeting.
The idea seems harmless: Financial institutions should adjust their balance sheets and their capital accounts when the market value of the financial assets they hold goes up or down.
In 2010 Congress enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, requiring foreign financial institutions to identify American account-holders and disclose their balances and withdrawals, or face a 30% withholding tax on income from any financial assets they hold in America.
These six financial institutions issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards, over half of all mortgages, control 95 percent of all derivatives held in financial institutions and hold more than 40 percent of all bank deposits in the United States.
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Because the concept of the trust has expanded so greatly over the centuries, to where now large financial institutions often hold north of a billion dollars in trust, the concept has because daunting and lost its fundamental meaning for most folks.
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This partially offsets the mark-to-market drain on regulatory capital and helps hold the financial system together.
Even before financial incentives fully take hold, these passionate doctors want the best possible outcomes for their patients.
Also on Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on a similar bill to use TARP funds for automakers.
Despite Fayyad's reforms, however, Arafat will continue to hold some financial clout.
Sick financial intermediaries will always hold an economy back.
Last year's budget agreement tacked an additional six months onto the time an individual must hold a financial asset in order to have the lower capital gains rate applied instead of the regular income tax rate.
With certain limited exceptions, FDA employees and their families cannot hold a financial interest in any company that is significantly regulated by FDA. FDA employees must report their financial interests on a yearly basis and their reports are reviewed by Agency ethics staff.
The dour reports came a day after two prominent academic economists, Carmen Reinhart, of the University of Maryland, and Kenneth Rogoff, of Harvard University, suggested housing might not bottom until 2010, which bodes poorly for struggling financial institutions that still hold trillions in mortgages, according to Reuters.
Even optimistic commercial-property developers are stacking sandbags to hold back a financial deluge in the market for office towers, hotels, shopping malls and other commercial real estate.
Yet, when the financial crisis started to take hold and the business was looking to make cuts, it was obvious who would be the first to the door.
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The adage may hold in the financial markets, but when it comes to starting a business, it rings hollow, says Erik Hurst, a 33-year-old associate professor of economics at quant haven University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
But when the difficult global economy took hold several years ago, many companies were forced to cut back on financial incentive programs or even put them on hold in order to stay financially viable.
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Many financial planners, however, do hold credentials that attest to their experience and education.
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But Crowe's father, who used to work at Lehman Brothers, suggested she bring her art to financial capital of New York and hold an exhibition.
Perhaps when Warren unseats Brown she can help push through appointees to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, though the hold process is so infuriatingly broken that this seems unlikely.
The reference is catch-all phrase commonly employed by the Occupy movement in describing America's wealthy, particularly those atop the financial services industry, suggesting they hold disproportionate influence over the rest of the country.
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But Crowe's father, who used to work at Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ), suggested she bring her art to financial capital of New York and hold an exhibition.
When I visited Alwaleed in Saudi Arabia in October 2008 as the financial crisis was beginning to take hold, I asked him why he ordered the jumbo jet, especially since he already had a fully decked out Boeing 747.
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Foreign firms hold trivial amounts of domestic financial assets (under 2%), and play only a marginal role in any domestic sector.
Microsoft has named Amy Hood as its new chief financial officer, the first woman to hold the post at the technology giant.
"During the financial crisis these products didn't hold up, " he says.
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