How keen will Thai mutual funds be to invest in bank shares if the banks themselves distrust the legal system too much to lend?
To reassure itself that the recipient bank can survive, the government would invest only if the bank can simultaneously raise funds from private investors.
The Financial Times alleged that Barclays lent Qatar money to invest in the bank in 2008.
Anyway, into his third cocktail or so, this guy, in the spirit of taking advantage of people unsophisticated enough to borrow at those rates, wondered if consumers could be persuaded to borrow against their Visa at 19.6% and to then invest in a bank-managed mutual fund, yielding in the single digits.
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In fact, women make the majority of buying decisions about everything from what cars their families drive to where they bank and invest.
Morgan became the latest foreign bank to invest in a Chinese trust company, even as Western banks have sold stakes in Chinese state-owned banks.
When savings rates rise, but savers hoard, rather than invest, the central bank pushes its newly created money out of short-run credit markets and out into the whole yield curve.
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Anyway, the point is that when investors and companies lend to a bank and when they invest in them, they look at what would happen to that bank if all went pear-shaped and said bank got into a serious financial mess.
"There's plenty of demand, " says Marwan Ghandour, chairman of Lebanon Invest, a local investment bank.
Surprised to find their destination in crisis as its mining industry falls apart, they investigate, and invest in, the local bank, before discovering they too have fallen victim to its scandal.
Just as the beer was rolling out, Deutsche Bank invited him to invest in a tiny Bulgarian drug company.
Whereas online brokers once fought to attract fidgety, active traders, today they are jostling to bring in long-term investors, who might bank, trade and invest under one roof.
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Another twist on this idea is to require companies invest a portion in an infrastructure bank, as Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently argued.
Interest rates of 11.75% in Brazil make for an attractive carry-trade for Japanese banks, who can borrow money at near-zero interest rates and invest in Brazilian government bonds or bank deposits paying double digit yields.
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As we set aside a certain amount every month for our housing goal, should we put it in a traditional savings account with our local bank or should we invest it in a money market, CD, or online savings account?
Just 14 Chinese banks can invest in Taiwan, of which Agricultural Bank of China Ltd.
Instead of earning close to nothing on your money at a bank, you can directly invest in things that offer solid returns and create real or lasting value.
The overall network of community banks needs help and that help should be a program designed to find incentives for private capital to invest in banks that are deemed borderline Bank Failure Friday victims.
India will pay 45% into Indian bank accounts opened by Iran and invest in Iranian infrastructure.
Meanwhile, VTB will invest a further 100bn roubles to recapitalise the bank - taking its ownership share from 46% to 75%, enough to qualify for state aid.
Simon Lack, who spent 23 years at JPMorgan, an investment bank, selecting hedge funds to invest in, grew tired of the free hand that investors all too often gave managers.
The World Bank has found that women tend to invest more of their earnings in their families and communities than men do.
The PwC statement says that because the money was converted to buy a property, and not to invest in financial products, it is within the bank's rules on currency exchanges.
Italy was already paying dangerously high interest rates - and Moody's downgrade is likely to push up the government's borrowing costs even more, unless the European Central Bank intervenes heavily in the market to invest many more billions of euros in Italian government bonds.
Auction house Googut helped three banks set up bank-run investment funds for customers to invest in baijiu and other liquors.
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Currency intervention has been a growing concern for forex investors, with many now scrutinising the history of a central bank's interventions before deciding whether to invest.
Sometimes it is just us, sometimes we invest with other community development funds, and sometimes a bank has been the secured lender and we are a mezzanine lender.
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Germans, who had long been used to putting their savings into bank accounts or bonds, were persuaded to invest in equities, generally considered a much better long-term bet.
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