In the fall of 2007, for example, when the asset-backed commercial paper market began to freeze, regulators latched onto a rescue plan cooked up by a Citi executive.
Unlike Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Lloyds Banking Group, which received government bailouts, Barclays tapped investors in the Middle East to inject more capital when the financial markets froze and regulators started to demand larger buffers against losses.
A final pot of cash containing £23m from within a company called MG Rover Capital is currently frozen by the pensions regulator, which has until the end of this year to state whether it will make a claim.
Regulators have frozen its dividend at one cent per share (a yield of less than 0.1%) since the crisis.
The regulator froze Popolare Italiana's cash offer and stock-and-cash bid because of a "lack of information" from the bank and concern about how the offers would be financed, according to its Web site.
The company had planned for a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, but gave up plans for a simultaneous offering in mainland China after the country's securities regulator froze I.P.O.
In May alone, regulators tagged "filthy frozen scallops"; catfish, eel and shrimp laced with banned chemicals; unsafe additives; pesticides; and cancer-causing agents.
Regulators, who have frozen all of Stanford's accounts, are trying to unravel what role, if any, the Stanford group's broker-dealer played in the $8 billion financial fraud that Stanford is accused of orchestrating.
After Lehman's bankruptcy, regulators froze the assets of Lehman Brothers in Europe, which included many hedge funds.
Regulators froze a Swiss account at Goldman Sachs on Friday after unearthing activities suggestive of insider trading in the $23 billion acquisition of H. J. Heinz, taking an abrupt action after one of the biggest deals in recent years.
