Banking

The term "dual banking system" means that both the California and the US governments ..... bank charters.

Robert ..... a check this past week. Now, he must pay two NSF charges because of it.

Rose and Tom want to get approved for a ..... because they want to buy a house this year.

China's financial institutions have historically suffered the disadvantage of having dual operating roles: the authorities viewed them not simply as banks, but also as a major ..... for providing capital to state-run companies.

China's banks kicked ..... their structural reforms ahead of receiving capital injections from the central government.

The most likely resolution of the political standoff would be a behind-the-..... agreement between the President and the ruling coalition, leading to an election approved by the Constitutional Court.

In the 1970s, the industry realised that it simply couldn't be good at everything; it then began to consolidate, converge and sell off those parts of the business that could be better sourced externally, especially where external suppliers could ..... greater economies of scale by supplying multiple manufactures.

Since the 1990s, banks have been improving their efficiency ratios by acquiring or upgrading technology, cost cutting and consolidation; but now that further improvements are proving ....., costs have been trimmed to the minimum and consolidation gains have waned, banks are under pressure to improve earnings.

Outsourcing has thus becomes a way of moving banks' ..... resources away from trivial operations to value-added services, such as business strategy and execution, new opportunity identification and pricing, business results and interpretation, and M&A planning.

In order to take advantage of the pain being suffered on Wall Street, Castle Investments is adding 1.2 billion dollars to the ..... it has already amassed; the extra cash will be added to its 2.2 billion dollar 'credit opportunities' fund for investment in distressed assets.