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Greece’s $40 billion bailout an improvement, but issues remain
Markets soothed as firm details of Greek rescue plan are announced, eurozone will provide €30 billion at discounted 5% rate for year forward, analysts less convinced
Assistance from the US government has helped the country's banking industry back into profit, but the improvement hasn't been reflected in increased lending, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance...
Governors including Canada’s Mark Carney and India’s Duvvuri Subbarao point to imbalances as root cause of the crisis, but skirt around concerns over the dollar
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Stress tests ignored commercial real estate threat, Congress warns
US banks face hundreds of billions of dollars in losses on commercial real estate (CRE) loans - a danger that was missed by the Capital Adequacy Program (Cap) stress tests in early 2009. The Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief...
UK Conservative party outlines financial and economic reforms in new...
The UK's shadow chancellor, George Osborne, reaffirmed the Conservative party's commitment to "abolish the failed tripartite system of regulation and put the Bank of England back in charge" of prudential supervision at the launch of A New Economic Model:...
House committee attacks Geithner over AIG 'cover-up'
US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner fended off accusations of a cover-up yesterday, as members of the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform attacked efforts to keep secret the details of the New York Fed's bailout of failed insurer...
Pressure grows for AIG audit
Leading US congressmen have added their voices to calls for a comprehensive audit of the bailout of collapsed insurer AIG in 2008, as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) prepares for hearings on the issue tomorrow. Committee...
Fed asks for audit of AIG bailout
In the face of growing criticism over the decision to support the failed insurer AIG in 2008, US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the bailout. Scrutiny of the bailout has been growing...
Weaker banks may lose government backing: Fitch
Struggling European countries may end their support for banks they view as having no systemic importance, warned a Fitch Ratings analyst at the agency’s 2010 credit outlook conference in London on January 19. “We’re becoming increasingly concerned...
US Treasury continues to shut down support programmes
The US Treasury continued to reduce its support for the financial sector over the New Year, shutting down its Capital Purchase Program (CPP) and a loss-sharing agreement on $300 billion of Citigroup assets, and scaling down its planned support for the...
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