Sentences with phrase «presided over the bank»

The Brown government also presided over the Bank of England giving # 375bn of cheap credit to the banks through the policy of quantitative easing.

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Bernanke had presided over the United States central bank during the 2008 - 09 international financial crisis and is currently a distinguished fellow in residence with the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Today, in contrast, the Fed presides over a vast portfolio, with assets consisting mainly of long - term Treasury securities and mortgage - backed securities, instead of the short - term Treasuries it once held; and that portfolio is funded more by banks» holdings of substantial excess reserves than by circulating Federal Reserve notes.

To preside properly as a regulator, it needs the same power over governance at state banks as private ones.

The rise of food banks is a national scandal that puts the lie to Cameron's claim to be presiding over a benign recovery.

Presiding over a pro-Hillary Clinton phone bank at Queens County Democratic Headquarters in Forest Hills, where volunteers rang voters in the crucial states of Florida and Pennsylvania, Crowley called the House leadership's contorted stance on the slumping Republican presidential candidate absurd and untenable.

We are presiding over a growth not in banking, but in food banks where the poor, now including the working poor in their ranks, queuing up for help to meet the most basic of needs.

Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield, R - Ky., who will preside over the hearing, sent out letters Aug. 6 inviting testimony from leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency; the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, State, and Transportation; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Commerce Department; NASA; the U.S. Agency for International Development; the Export - Import Bank; and the White House Office of Science and Technology.

Since taking up a leadership role at A&O in 2003, first as managing partner and, since 2008 as senior partner, banking lawyer Morley has presided over impressive growth.

Her worst delay came in 2005 when she presided over a one - day hearing between Fredericton's old Elm City Chrysler dealership, its owners and their bank to resolve questionable transactions.