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World Bank Says Asia Has Room for Stimulus to Limit Europe H...

Most Asian nations have room to use fiscal stimulus to protect their economies from a deterioration of the European debt crisis that may have “substantial” spillovers on the region, the World Bank said. Developing East Asia [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

U.S. Banks Pull Back on Europe Lending, Survey Shows

U.S. banks tightened their standards for loans to European banks and fewer relaxed lending standards to businesses in the third quarter, the Federal Reserve said Monday. The Fed's quarterly senior-loan-officer survey, based on 51 d [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

EU’s Bank Capital Plan Has ‘Serious Problems,’ IIF Says

The European Union’s plan for recapitalizing banks has “serious problems” that will hurt economic growth and make it harder for some nations to borrow, the Institute of International Finance said. There is a “cl [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Euro, Dollar Look To Central Banks

Both the dollar and euro are vulnerable to monetary policy decisions this week, although the Federal Reserve poses a bigger risk to the greenback than the European Central Bank does to the common currency. A blitz of data and policy me [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

EU Bank Debt-Guarantee Plan May Struggle to Thaw Funding Mar...

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- European banks, which need to refinance more than $1 trillion of debt next year, may struggle to fund themselves until policy makers follow through on a pledge to guarantee their bond sales. European Union leader [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

EU bank plan may include aid pledged to bailout states: sour...

If over a third of the EU's bank recapitalisation drive, which investors hoped would inject more than 100 billion euros of fresh money, is accounted for under old bailout programmes markets are likely to react with disappointment. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

EU banks could shrink to hit capital rules

Leading European banks say they would rather sell assets than raise expensive new capital to meet compulsory demands from the European Union for higher capital ratios, threatening a further contraction of credit to the enfeebled eurozone [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

EU banks face higher capital thresholds

European authorities plan to set a higher than expected capital threshold for the region’s banks and give them six to nine months to achieve that level or face government recapitalisations under the auspices of the eurozone’s [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

More Pain for Europe Banks

Europe's troubled financial sector showed further strains Monday as the sovereign-debt crisis claimed its first banking victim and banks in Austria and Greece showed signs of distress, increasing pressure on euro-zone governments to c [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Banks face new European stress tests

Europe’s top banking regulator has started to re-examine the strength of the region’s banks, modelling a big writedown of all peripheral eurozone sovereign debt. The exercise, conducted by the European Banking Authority, could [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

EU preparing bank rescues amid Greece doubts

Hours earlier French-Belgian municipal lender Dexia SA became the first European bank to have to be bailed out due to the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis. "Everyone said the big concern is that worrying developments on the f [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Banks prepare for Greek default, want EU help

So gloomy were bankers from major financial institutions, attending a conference on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank sessions, that they compared the risks of financial market contagion to the collapse of Lehman [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

EU warned of credit crunch threat, French banks hit

European finance ministers have been warned confidentially of the danger of a renewed credit crunch as a "systemic" crisis in euro zone sovereign debt spills over to banks, according to documents obtained by Reuters on Wednesday [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

WSJ: Renewed Fears Europe's Banks Too Weak To Withstand Debt...

A dramatic sell-off in European financial markets on Thursday renewed fears that Europe's banks are too weak to withstand the Continent's debt crisis, increasing the chances that the region's leaders will be forced to pursue r [...]