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...It argues, convincingly, that the problem with banks is that they operate with vastly insufficient levels of equity capital, relative to their assets....
...Reprinted by permission of Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. Back to the top Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyBy Abhijit V....
...Last week, Mr Fuld tried a different tack, saying Lehman would try to sell a 55 per cent stake in the asset management arm and spin off $30bn of commercial property assets into a separate “bad bank” structure...
...As senior economist at Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank she was the only woman among a workforce of 4,000 men, and in 2005 she became the first woman to head a Saudi bank when she co-founded Gulf...
...Telenor and Grameen Bank were able to acquire jointly a key asset relatively cheaply, which significantly reduced their investment risk....
...The merger - essentially an acquisition of Lucent of the US by Alcatel of France - will be a political, cultural and commercial test. Russo will be the person held to account if it goes wrong....
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