In the end, the British and other governments spent hundreds of millions of dollars bailing out troubled financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

new regulations, to help avoid the kind of risky behavior by financial institutions that brought on the U.S.banking crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

The Bank of Japan agreed to loan $115 billion to financial institutions for three months at a rate of 0.1 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Critics accused the Obama administration of holding a double standard by being more lenient on financial institutions also receiving federal assistance.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

He says the best way to do this is by agreeing to stricter oversight of international financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

With many facing an uncertain employment future, trust in the financial institutions and in politicians has evaporated.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Mr.Obama also endorsed Geithner's request for power to seize financial institutions other than banks when they fail.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

This is the third time in a week that Mr.Obama has proposed tougher regulation of financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The 2008 meltdown brought down some of the largest financial institutions in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

And he said he will press for greater international cooperation on regulating the financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The World Economic Forum also released its Africa Competitiveness Report which said that African competitiveness in global markets was hindered by under-developed infrastructure, healthcare,education and financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

Besides expanding the Federal Reserve's powers to police banks and speculative markets, the measure also contains provisions to prevent financial institutions from becoming too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"But to spur lending to small businesses, it is essential that we make more credit available to the smaller banks and community financial institutions that these businesses depend on,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21