The four biggest firms— J.P. Morgan Chase , Bank of America , Citigroup and Wells Fargo —have assets equal to 62% of total commercial-bank assets. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The year ended with hopes that the drought in commercial-bank lending was subsiding, but residual issues from the financial meltdown continue to overshadow the fourth-quarter results of the nation's big banks. ❋ Matthias Rieker (2011)
Before the introduction of the money-market mutual fund in 1971, the commercial-bank deposit was considered the best way to safeguard the core cash that people need to go about their day-to-day lives. ❋ Jonathan R. Macey (2011)
For the Fed, it was a narrow portfolio-driven decision with no input from its advisers or the New York Fed's commercial-bank board members. ❋ David Weidner (2010)
IndyMac The first significant commercial-bank failure during the financial crisis, IndyMac Bancorp borrowed $500 million from the Fed's discount window on July 11, 2008—the day that it went under. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Few people think commercial-bank credit lines are worth much to a problem institution at the center of a financial crisis. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Fed modeled the new report on its Senior Loan Officer survey, which tracks commercial-bank lending to households and businesses and has been closely followed during the credit crisis. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Few experts think commercial-bank credit lines are worth much to a problem institution at the center of a financial crisis: Such promises tend to melt away in the panic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Instead, Bank Indonesia said it will introduce new policies on commercial-bank reserve requirements aimed at tightening liquidity, taking care to say those steps won't hurt the banking sector. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For all of 2008, commercial-bank lending rose by $386 billion, or 5.63%, even as the economy slid into recession. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Last fall, Morgan Stanley agreed to become a commercial-bank holding company and took an infusion from the Treasury Department. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Large commercial-bank holdings of Treasurys and agencies hit $797 billion in the latest week, according to data from the Federal Reserve, or about 12% of total assets, from $776 billion, or 11.6%, the week before and from $596 billion, or 9.7%, early last year. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke asked Congress to accelerate the date when the Fed can pay interest on commercial-bank reserves, a power that would give it better control over interest rates and more leverage to battle the credit crunch. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Such an idea would more closely align supervision of big Wall Street investment banks and their huge commercial-bank counterparts, which operate under different regulatory frameworks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On Banks 'Reserves Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will discuss the implications of paying interest on commercial-bank reserves, a step that would give the Fed considerably more capacity for combating the credit crunch. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In adopting the commercial-bank model (Morgan Stanley and Goldman) or being subsumed into other commercial banks (Lehman, Merrill and Bear), there will be only one playing field: Whichever institution can lend more money to clients more cheaply will win the battle for investment-banking fees. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Of course, the size of the pocketbook in the commercial-bank model can be a powerful engine for prominence. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cost to taxpayers of this commercial-bank crisis could still be enormous. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Federal Reserve is formally asking Congress for authority -- starting this year -- to pay interest on commercial-bank reserves to gain better control over interest rates and more leverage to battle the credit crunch. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Consider that $700 billion, the size of the recent Troubled Asset Relief Program, is equal to only about 6% of U.S. commercial-bank assets. ❋ Unknown (2008)