Sentences with phrase «banking as a sector»

There is no doubt that banking as a sector is more diversified and all - encompassing compared to the scenario years ago.

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When we bought our first plane, air travel was considered very expensive, extremely frustrating and awfully dull; more recently, the banking sector has been held responsible for the financial crisis and global recession, so we used our reputation to instil some trust and, as Virgin Money's slogan says, «Make everyone better off.»

As well as its decision on upstream oil and gas, the World Bank Group said on Tuesday that it would, among other things, report the greenhouse gas emissions arising from investment projects it finances in «key emissions - producing sectors» from 201As well as its decision on upstream oil and gas, the World Bank Group said on Tuesday that it would, among other things, report the greenhouse gas emissions arising from investment projects it finances in «key emissions - producing sectors» from 201as its decision on upstream oil and gas, the World Bank Group said on Tuesday that it would, among other things, report the greenhouse gas emissions arising from investment projects it finances in «key emissions - producing sectors» from 2018.

Some observers predict that such borrowers will be forced to tap networks of small investors who lend through mortgage brokers, as well as mortgage investment corporations — in other words, the most remote corners of Canada's shadow banking sector, which accounts for 40 % of Canada's banking space.

Private - sector economists are pointing to a surfeit of positive data, while Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz remains wary (or, as Poloz himself put it at press conference last week, «decidedly neutral»).

CNBC's Mike Santoli takes a look at financial sector ETFs as banks get set to report quarterly earnings.

In other sectors, Deutsche Bank analysts ranked the Italian multinational Leonardo Finmeccanica and the insurance firm Prudential as «buy» - rated companies.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

Uncertainty also seems to have reached the Spanish banking sector as well.

His thesis is that the primary drivers of the banks» growth over the past two decades (lower corporate taxes, a favourable regulatory environment allowing consolidation in the sector) will no longer be as significant, and a number of challenges — including new regulations — will slow their growth.

What claims to be the world's largest single market is shot through with regulation that protects favored players in sectors such as banking, utilities and transport.

Given the concentration in Canada's banking sector, it's likely that at least some of the banks will be designated as such, requiring higher capital levels and putting even more pressure on their return on equity.

As the bank earnings flurry rolls on this week, the financials sector should be able to play catch - up and return to being one of the best - performing groups in the market.»

Designed to limit risk in the finance sector, they don't carry the same risk of unintended consequences as the Volcker rule, but they could still cause a drag on our banks» earnings.

The Baltic nation is trying to position itself as a financial - technology hub that's attractive to start - ups, particularly in the banking sector.

«Maybe the Canadian banks haven't been as aggressive [in this sector] as they might have been,» he says.

As a result, economists argue politicians should be doing everything possible to ensure the private sector in this country is strong enough to support the economy when stimulus dollars disappear and central banks tighten monetary policy.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Bottom line: My recommendation for Canadian issues is to concentrate in the banks and other financials, utilities and telecoms at the expense of other sectors such as consumer staples and consumer discretionary stocks.

Yes, there's the desire to send a message to the Bank of England and the financial sector, and yes, Carney has a solid track record, including as head of the Financial Stability Board.

Awtani added provisioning requirements of public sector undertaking banks have increased with the surge in non-performing assets (NPA) and that there still exists stressed loans in the system which will probably be recognized as NPAs over the coming few quarters.

Vietnam was once billed as Asia's next economic tiger, but double - digit inflation, a ballooning trade gap, tumbling share prices and banking sector concerns have dampened expectations to a large degree.

Morgan Stanley's review of its commodities business comes as rivals including Deutsche Bank AG and Barclays PLC have pulled back from the sector.

Local governments were identified as a major risk to China's financial stability, partly due to their lending from the «shadow banking» sector and debt accumulated over the past years to upgrade infrastructure across the country.

Signees include most of the big banks, law firms such as Borden Ladner Gervais and, from the male - dominated mining sector, Goldcorp.

They show the Fed has at times taken a tough line with banks in the sector, and may darken the outlook for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, both of which still own physical commodity trading assets such as warehouses, pipelines and oil storage tanks.

«We believe short - term gains could fade shortly after earnings season as «the usual» sector overhangs weigh on H1 / 18 performance, namely the housing market and NAFTA,» National Bank of Canada Financial Markets analyst Gabriel Dechaine told clients in a research note.

One sector is financials, as measured by Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) and iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT), which are up by approximately 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively, this year.

But, as McIntosh points out, the testing sector has taken off with the proliferation of computing platforms — no longer just PCs and laptops, but also an ever growing universe of mobile devices and tablets, as well as increasingly complex applications, from e-commerce sites to mobile banking apps.

Concerns the banking sector is headed towards more challenging times didn't appear to be quite as evident as some analysts had anticipated before the quarterly reports began earlier this week.

South Korean shares rose as technology and auto sectors rallied after the Bank of Japan announced aggressive monetary easing measures, resolving uncertainty about its actions.

Banks rose along with the bond yields, as the S&P / TSX composite index advanced 84.57 points to 15,524.01, helped in part by the influential financials sector.

Opportunity: An era of fiscal austerity in the public sector can be a boon for economics employment there, as federal and provincial departments such as Finance, Industry, Foreign Affairs and the Bank of Canada seek analysts who can work the data.

In the banking sector, Credit Suisse said Tuesday it will make a decision on capital raising plans «as soon as possible,» Reuters reported.

Europe's banks also drove higher following broker upgrades for Credit Suisse, while there was little sign of tension for the sector or for the pound or euro as formal Brexit negotiations kicked off in Brussels.

A lot of market strategists were pointing to bank stocks as the sector that would benefit the most from interest rate increases, since higher interest rates would boost lending profits.

The incoming chief has «great experience in the financial market infrastructure sector, which he has been closely involved in throughout his investment banking career, as well as capital markets experience in both developed and emerging markets,» said LSE Chairman Donald Brydon.

Similarly to Santander's report, the EBA publication highlighted that cooperation among Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and the crypto community was necessary as it would determine the future relationship between traditional banks and the» 2.0» sector.

This could have been done to offset some of the negative commentaries concerning the fiscal outcome for 2015 - 16, such as the downward revisions to economic growth by the IMF, the Bank of Canada and a number of private sector economists.

Among the many pieces of information that it requires are «any foreign financial interests (such as stocks, property, investments, bank accounts, ownership of corporate entities, corporate interests or exchange traded funds (ETFs) held in specific geographical or economic sectors).»

Many central banks, especially during the most acute phases of the crisis, also employed policies known as «credit easing,» which involves purchases of private sector assets in certain credit markets that are important to the functioning of the financial system but are temporarily impaired.

Such an arrangement, known as private - sector involvement, or P.S.I., has been pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany as a way of forcing banks, not only European taxpayers, to foot the bill for bailing out Greece.

The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.

As banks back off risky lending, Pepper's Australian loan book jumped 36 percent in 2016, far outpacing the banking sector's 6.5 percent credit growth.

Yet the sector as gauged by the SPDR S&P Bank ETF was off 1.2 percent in early afternoon trading, with all of the banks that reported off at least 2 percent.

During the visit, Chen mentioned distributed ledger technology as one of the key components to the «development and application of fintech,» and highlighted that he and Xing Yujing, the head of the People's Bank of China Shenzhen Central Sub-Branch, agreed that mainland China should reinforce a solid relationship with the Hong Kong and Shenzhen financial sectors by engaging in «pilot schemes» in order to support «the process of the nation's reform and opening - up.»

Ms. Maher joined the Bank in December 2010 as an examining officer and assigned to supervisory and regulatory policy, financial sector policy and analysis function.

The finance sector on Friday launched the first - quarter 2012 earnings season with unexpectedly good results from some of the nation's big banks, as JPMorgan Chase reported better - than - expected earnings per share, and Wells Fargo posted a 13 % rise in net income.

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

The measure would apply only to the nearly one million workers in federal jurisdictions, such as banks and the various transportation sectors.