More than nine out of 10 people polled believe it is important to regulate financial services in order to ensure fairness toward customers, 83percentt believe that new rules should be implemented for Wall Street and that bankers should be held accountable for the actions that caused the financial crisis.
This is based on the procedure first introduced in the financial services area in order for Parliament to keep some measure of control over the burgeoning comitology systems which are developing in the European Union.
Heizo Takenaka, Mr. Koizumi's economic and financial services minister, has ordered banks to reduce their bad loans sharply by next March, and improve their profitability.
Compaq, which has a large share of the financial services market, received orders from hundreds of affected corporate clients, said Arch Currid, a company spokesman.
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"While we currently provide our customers with certain financial services, including money orders, electronic funds transfers and cashing of U.S. Treasury checks, our core function is not banking," the agency said in a written statement.
Congress included the so-called "Volcker Rule" in the Dodd-Frank financial services reform bill in order to get banking entities out of activities it saw as highly risky.
While the USPS already offers some financial services such as money orders and international fund transfers, it could expand to include paycheck cashing, pre-paid debit cards, bill payments, ATMs, savings accounts and small dollar loans.
Wal-Mart U.S. last year generated about 1percentt of annual sales from financial services such as money orders, prepaid cards, wire transfers, check cashing and bill payments, according to its latest annual report.
The acquisition will help 7-Eleven add to financial services, like sales of money orders and check cashing, a 7-Eleven spokeswoman, Margaret Chabris, said.
At a news conference in Tokyo, Shozaburo Jimi, the financial services minister, said he had ordered a sweeping investigation into the finances of 260 other money management companies in Japan.
