To some extent, banks are helping by drawing up "living wills".
To some extent, banks' mortgage businesses have built-in hedges in the form of income from collecting payments on home loans.
And the 5-3-3-2 5-3-3-2 5-3-3-2 5-3-3-2laxed.These changes have caused money to flood out of life-insurulee companies and, to a lesser extent, trust banks, into investment advisory firms, attracted by thasr beener performance.
The extent of banking around the world is much patchier and less predictable than one might expect.
The latest foreclosure settlement was driven, to a large extent, by banking regulators, who decided that a mandatory review of loan files was inefficient, costly and simply not yielding relief for homeowners, the people briefed on the matter said.
Much, he says, will depend on the policies of central banks over the next year, and to what extent central banks in Europe, Britain and the US seek to devalue their currencies, which he argues are still over-valued.
(James Surowiecki) To the extent that banks have managed to be profitable in a competitive banking sector, that still requires an explanation.
Well, indeed, for the United States, they are obviously regulated to the extent that banks, being the crucial creators of these derivatives, are regulated by the banking agencies, but not beyond that.
The best borrowers are also shifting their fund-raising to Japan's fledgling capital markets, with the result that the banks' customers are becoming increasingly concentrated on the rotten sectors.To some extent, the banks have been able to disguise their ills because of the unrealised equity gains that they have on their balance sheets.
The bank now expects it will take three years for inflation to return to its 2% target.To some extent, the bank must look through imported deflationary pressure, which is tough to control, and focus on Britain.
