Barclays managers were very worried that the appearance of the bank paying more to borrow than other banks was damaging confidence in its health.
And the company gets its money far more cheaply, even after paying the Bank for its guarantee.
The government has been paying interest to the Bank of England for those loans, which has accumulated into a big pot of cash.
Believe it or not, you could get a CD in the bank paying about 14% in 1981.
That is, you were effectively paying the bank to hold your money in all those little branches of the Midland and the TSB.
But that is only thanks to the decision to transfer back to the Treasury the interest that the Bank of England is paying on government debt purchases as part of quantitative easing.
His finances have been further questioned over the delay in paying money he owed to the bank that helped him with the buyout of the club.
On October 6, 2008, the Federal Reserve started paying interest on bank reserves (IOR) for the first time in its (then) 95-year history.
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The government compounds this, notes the Bank, first by paying its lower-level employees wages well over the odds, which discourages people from seeking work in the private sector, and second by making it almost impossible to sack people, which makes employers reluctant to offer jobs.
Iran's major Asian buyers of crude that were paying into the bank also had to cut up to 20% of their imports in order to win exemptions from these sanctions.
Gulf States in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) are said to be considering plans for a value added tax (VAT) by 2015 while also lowering corporate tax rates to increase foreign direct investment, according to the Paying Taxes 2013 report conducted by the World Bank, IFC and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Last year, Terra Firma took Citigroup to court in the US, accusing the bank of tricking it into paying an inflated price for EMI.
The Fed s likely ease will involve zero interest on excess reserves: Since October 2008 the Fed has been paying interest on commercial bank deposits held at the central bank.
The bank says this is partly because firms are more focussed on paying off loans, and not because the bank is refusing to lend.
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But if these junior managers knew about Mr Diamond's conversation with Mr Tucker, then there is an implication that Mr Diamond talked to some Barclays executives about how damaging it was for the bank that it was perceived to be paying higher bank-to-bank interest rates than rivals.
Some limited English proficient (LEP) Korean American homeowners simply give up communicating with banks due to the language barrier, instead paying a broker to communicate with the bank on their behalf.
Well, with the Fed paying 0.25% interest on bank reserves, the Fed itself is basically doing exactly what has been described above.
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He will pledge to use the money raised by selling off the government's bank shares for paying down debt (an announcement designed to turn up the heat on the coalition who dream of using the money to pay for share giveaways or tax cuts).
In his speech to Labour's annual conference, Mr Balls signed the party up to tough spending rules and vowed that any windfall from the sale of bank shares would be spent on paying off the national debt.
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After WaMu's collapse, Wall Street frantically started looking for who would be next, and looked to those banks that were paying the highest rates for bank deposits, believing that to be an indication of those with a low liquidity position.
As for when the bank might resume paying a dividend and when the Treasury might start thinking about privatising some of taxpayers' 40% stake, that can all be evaluated in the autumn, after the shape of Europe's new banking rules are clearer (in what's known as CRD4).
While the Printing Company was failing, the Debtor tried to work out his loans with the Bank, and the Bank worked with him until 2009 when the Printing Company stopped paying altogether.
The assignment: Protest a construction firm that the union says is paying below the prevailing wage to workers renovating the bank.
So if you are not one of the people receiving this mortgage assistance, you could well end up paying for it in the form of higher bank fees or lower interest rates.
The Central Bank of China is paying closer attention to this.
Chancellor George Osborne called the behaviour of traders "totally unacceptable" and said the bank, rather than taxpayers, would be paying the fines.
Following this month s meeting, the FOMC is unlikely to indicate that the Fed will stop paying interest on commercial bank deposits.
Earlier this month the bank reversed its decision to delay paying staff bonuses in the UK to take advantage of a reduction in tax rates coming into effect in April.
These shunned banks have to resort to paying 1.75% to the European Central Bank for this emergency overnight money.
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