Sentences with phrase «bank on issues»

Providing legal advice to a Norwegian bank on issues related to ship finance and refund guarantee.

What better way to implement such a 35 percent strategy than by banking on an issue that 35 percent of the electorate prioritise.

Not exact matches

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

Those federal rules, which double down on restrictions adopted in 2014 and stern warnings to lenders issued by OSFI earlier this summer, require banks to qualify borrowers at higher interest rates, impose additional limits on mortgages for buyers with small down payments, and compel financial institutions to share the risk by taking out insurance policies on low - ratio mortgages.

Banks are focused on another issue: Rising interest rates.

After remaining silent on the issue during Stephen Harper's reign, the central bank now is providing intellectual cover for the government as it confronts doubters ahead of its first budget.

It's an issue experts on both sides of the border — including at the Bank of Canada — have been warning investors about for a few months now: There's an alarming lack of liquidity in the credit market.

NEI withdrew its resolutions after the banks agreed to commission an independent study on the issue, the results of which were published in December.

So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

Sitting on the shelf for a year due to financial issues with its production company, this comedy based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo Bank robbery, which at the time was the second - largest cash robbery in US history, is finally hitting screens.

Flaherty can count on his trusty herding pooch, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, to issue regular warnings about the hazards of reckless borrowing.

Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

Banks retreated on home loans, issuing few purchase mortgages, and relying on the booming refi market for fresh business as rates plummeted.

In an interview following the speech, Campbell said the NDP has «clearly articulated» their policy on issues like credit card rates, but the CBA, which represents 52 banks, is «quite serious» about forging a working relationship with Layton and his caucus.

The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.

Boston Consulting Group tackled some of these issues in a big report on capital markets and investment banking.

Since the OCC has not reached a final decision on the fintech charters, the claim of harm by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) was speculative, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

On one end of the market, you have traditional banks that are conservative in their approach to issuing small - business loans due to risk and profitability concerns.

And when issues and risks arise, the leaders» hands - on support can sustain the emotional bank account when it's needed most.

«The issue isn't particularly economic in terms of markets and it's not really the central banks... it's geopolitical and there's some bad things going on in the world and conventional analysis says things will be fine,» Schwarzman said at the Delivering Alpha conference, produced by CNBC and Institutional Investor.

BERKELEY, California - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John C. Williams participates in a panel discussion on interest rates at the 2017 Clausen Center Conference on Global Economic Issues - 2100 GMT.

The bank has been struggling to shake off issues with its reputation after several years of scandal, the most recent of which centered on allegations of unlawful whistleblower mistreatment in early 2017.

But Continental executive Scott Penfound says the plan is to offer «an old - school commerce bank,» meaning one that focuses on making money from selling services rather than issuing credit.

The SBA reports that banks have come down on both sides of the issue; according to the agency, «several lenders stated that they do not finance goodwill on a conventional basis.»

Strike Debt doesn't buy individual debtor's debts, but instead buys bundles of anonymous debt from banks through what it says are friends on the debt broker side (apparently, the banks won't deal with anyone who isn't established, and most brokers won't sell to non-collections agencies because of liability issues).

So, the issue is not productivity and long hours, but the perception of productivity, and in competitive industries like law, banking, consulting or technology, this puts enormous pressure on employees to be at the office.

Based on shareholder feedback, the New York bank had proposed to continue its stock plan for three years but requested no new shares be issued.

«The public funds, at least in Pennsylvania, are structured to enable the bank to make a loan that they might not be able to make without the public debt behind them by enhancing the loan - to - value, reducing the risk to [the bank], and then passing on some benefits [to the borrower] in the form of lower interest rates, which help cash - flow issues.»

Crown's president, Peter Dahl, explains that a community bank can «look beyond the numbers alone and focus on other issues that are actually very important.

Buffett, who chairs Wells Fargo «s largest shareholder, Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), had said he would wait until November to comment on the issue of the bank having created up to 2 million unauthorized customer accounts.

On the other hand, the same survey showed that 42 percent of the fund managers believe central bank policies will be the biggest driver of the dollar this year, while just 11 percent thought trade issues would be.

CD: I do think the banks — the financial institutions that are issuing the cards — are taking a more aggressive role in talking to the consumers not necessarily about tokenization, but about different ways to control fraud on the card.

«They [Wells Fargo] scored badly on some issues and did well on others,» Whittaker said, pointing out that bank pays their employees relatively well.

The issue of Dodd - Frank's impact on small banks is part of a broader debate at play about whether small banks have what it takes to compete in today's financial markets.

Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department.

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

«You could see more pressure [on stocks] if the trade issue» grows, said Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank.

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

Last year, the ICBA and the American Association of Bank Directors had asked the FDIC to issue a clarification on application procedures, and in particular on how long the 8 % capital ratio is in effect for new institutions.

«Some progress has been made on the key issues being watched closely by governing council, particularly the dynamics of inflation and wage growth,» the bank's statement said.

I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.

In response to a shareholder question at Barclays» annual general meeting on Tuesday, Staley said the bank was looking into cryptocurrency - related business but wary of regulatory and compliance issues.

Meanwhile, the FDIC on Nov. 19 issued a financial institution letter for banks it supervises saying that activities operated by a state - chartered bank's LLC subsidiary do not require formal FDIC approval as long as the activity is permissible for a national bank.

NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, which reported that total household debt increased substantially by $ 226 billion (a 1.8 % increase) to $ 12.58 trillion during the fourth quarter of 2016.

At around the same time, the first deputy governor of Russia's central bank proposed a virtual currency that would be issued on behalf of all EAEU nations as well as the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa.

But some central bankers have said that issuing their own currencies on some sort of blockchain could make it easier for citizens to use the money without going through intermediaries like banks and credit card companies.

After the 8.5 percent plunge in the index on Monday, China's central bank issued a statement on Tuesday before markets reopened, saying that «stable financial markets are expected to continue supporting steady gains in the real economy.»