The FDIC already assesses different deposit premiums on banks depending on their safety and soundness rating.
And when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the bank's backup regulator, moved to downgrade the bank's safety and soundness rating in September 2008, John M. Reich, the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, wrote an angry e-mail to a colleague.
Make sure it is licensed by your state, and check its financial soundness with a rating firm like A.M. Best (www.ambest.com, free registration required), advises Samuel Bennett, a Columbia, Mo., broker.
The administration is also closely watching investigations by a number of states into the actuarial soundness of double-digit rate increases.
Windle, et al.'s [ 11] review gave the CD-RISC the highest rating for psychometric soundness in a recent critique of resilience metrics, noting its high reliability, i.e. Cronbach's alpha and high construct validity, i.e. theory underpinning the scale [ 11].
Even so, the idea seems compelling, said Warren G. Heller of Veribanc, a Wakefield, Mass., company that rates banks for soundness.
Horses must remain sound of limb to ensure lung soundness, and they must remain sound of lung to achieve and maintain limb soundness.
TODAY's recommended economics writing:I'm going to quote Dani Rodrik quoting...you'll see A particularly destabilizing aspect [during the crisis] was the tendency of fears about the soundness of banks and expectations of exchange-rate devaluations to reinforce each other.
8 These criteria cover the use of content checklists, note taking by the ISP, soundness of clinical cases and ISP detection rates.
The Federal Reserve was created after a banking crisis nearly a century ago to manage the money supply through interest-rate policy, oversee the safety and soundness of the banking system and act as lender of last resort in times of trouble.
The second rating, VMIG1 or A-1+, evaluates the soundness of the backup credit line.
