Sentences with phrase «banking crisis threatened»

Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde warned on Tuesday that his country was facing a risk of «national bankruptcy» as the global banking crisis threatened to overwhelm the island nation.

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Two weeks ago the US threatened the bank with a massive $ 14 billion fine for transgressions that led up to the financial crisis, and the bank's stock really started to plummet.

This is part of the long - running worry that the new monetary policy activism inspired by the financial crisis threatens central banks» political independence.

Denmark's banking crisis is deepening as the new government's plan to impose a tax on lenders threatens to deplete capital when most of the country's banks have no access to funding markets.

The eurozone then struggled with a crisis over excessive government and bank debt that threatened to break up the currency union.

The ECB is trapped, already holding 40 % of sovereign debt, with Spain and Italy presenting major challenges, threatening to trigger a banking crisis in the not - so - distant future.

But eventually Brown and Alistair Darling were forced to act in extraordinary and unprecedented ways by the sheer scale of the crisis, which threatened the viability of the whole banking system and the economy.

Astonishingly, he downplays how this disastrous regime contributed to the banking crisis and how that regime was opposed at the outset by many of us, including Eddie George, who threatened to resign over it.

The crisis of potentially losing his only friend sends Manglehorn into some dark, contemplative territory that threatens to upend his secluded existence, especially as his relationship with the bank teller becomes potentially romantic.

«[Central banks] have chosen implicitly, if not in a more overt fashion, to set capital and other reserve standards for banks to guard against outcomes that exclude those once or twice in a century crises that threaten the stability of our domestic and international financial systems.

The 2007 financial crisis, which threatened the collapse of large financial institutions worldwide, has once again brought to the fore the significance of development banks.