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...Banks say the changes to RWA calculations will lead to significant hikes in capital requirements for mortgages, corporate loans and loans to other financial institutions....
...to residential mortgage finance; and small depositories must be involved in community lending (including residential mortgage finance)....
...Data visualisation by Chris Campbell...
...Citibank, Bank of America, Wachovia and Washington Mutual all failed in 2008 (three were bailed out and one was seized and sold) because managers fatally misunderstood mortgage risk....
...If mortgage rates keep going up — now we’re talking about 6 per cent, two-year fixed today — if these things continue, if these rising mortgage rates precipitate a correction in the housing market, if that...
...Corporation, in a £14.2bn deal....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...This is a guest post by Ben Funnell, a portfolio manager at Man Group and Campbell R. Harvey, a professor at Duke University and an investment strategy advisor to Man Group....
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Sheila Bair, who chaired the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation during the 2008 financial crisis, will chair the board of the US government-sponsored mortgage lender Fannie Mae....
...John Ruggie, a Harvard professor and human rights expert, agrees that “a defensiveness about the role of the corporation in modern society” has contributed to the rethink....
...For example, the top five lithium producers — Albemarle, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Livent Corporation, SQM, Tianqi Lithium Corporation — have all faced allegations of corruption, tax avoidance or violating...
...Honda unsuccessfully tried to sue Chinese group Shuanghuan Auto in 2004 for allegedly copying its CR-V vehicle....
...The authors claim this triggered deposit flight from Wachovia but offer no evidence it could otherwise have stayed out of trouble....
...Peter Campbell in London 90....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...The corporation has stuck with many troubled athletes — such as Tiger Woods — and Kaepernick’s stand on a point of principle is quite different from endorsing a star facing disgrace....
...The Thatcher-Reagan era of deregulation and globalisation — the free movement of goods, capital, labour and services — unleashed the global corporation....
...Since taking over Wachovia in 2008, Wells has tried to bulk up its non-retail divisions, and now ranks as the biggest lender in the US with $947bn of loans — well clear of Bank of America with $901bn and...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...George Osborne quoted Shakespeare’s Henry V as he delivered the last Budget of this administration....
...It gives buyers a leg up via mortgage guarantees, equity loans and a subsidised savings account....
...The bipartisan bill would wind down Fannie and Freddie over five years, but maintain a government backstop for the mortgage market through a new Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation....
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