Questions tagged [banking]
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What does “breaking up” a company mean?
Oversimplify it for me, what does "breaking up" a company mean when used commonly among politicians? What would a broken up wells fargo look like? Google? Is there historical legislation doing this, ...
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What is the rationale of capping interbanking rates to values significantly lower than inflation rate?
Romania’s finance ministry announced some sort of "tax on greed" for banking sector:
Romania’s finance ministry plans to introduce a tax on banking assets
from 2019, seeking to cap the interbank ...
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What was the largest case of fraud involving TARP money (financial crisis bailout funds)?
There were hundreds of convictions for misusing TARP money given as bailout after the 2008 financial crisis.
The US government set up the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008 to ...
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How far up the banks' hierarchy did the LIBOR rigging convictions (and prosecutions) go?
It's been reported that a number of bank personnel were convicted for LIBOR rigging, although quite a few more were acquitted.
Barclay's CEO and chairman both resigned following the scandal, but ...
