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Leading U.S. bank regulator Sheila Bair said on Friday that the government's capital injections into the largest banks was "probably not a good thing." Bair, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp , said the billions of dollars of capital...
Tags: Sheila Bair, capital injecting, terrible impact, Washington, New York Stock Exchange, Sheila C. Bair, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bank, Too Big to Fail, Politics, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Banking in the United States, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business Finance, American International Group, Federal Reserve System, Henry Paulson, Reuters
Kan. — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday said Congress needs to provide regulators greater tools to control the risky financial behavior that helped trigger the recession and to unwind major firms on the verge of collapse. Chairman...
Tags: Sheila Bair, FDIC, Congress
It would strip the current bank regulators of their consumer protection roles, which Bair has opposed.
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The number of so-called "problem banks" and bank failures will remain high for the next several quarters, and the economic recovery may not be as robust as in past cycles, a top U.S. bank regulator said on Wednesday. Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal...
Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., real estate, Sheila Bair, estate loans, commercial real, federal deposits, deposits insurance, economic recovery, banks regulator
How many other seemingly healthy multibillion-dollar community banks are out there waiting to implode? That’s impossible to know, which is what’s so unsettling about Georgian’s sudden downfall. Just when the conventional wisdom suggests the banking crisis...
Tags: Sheila Bair, Turkey, İstanbul
Reporting by Karey Wutkowski; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn) © Thomson Reuters 2009
Tags: U.S. Treasury Department, Sheila Bair, chairman sheila, FDIC, consider borrowing, Washington
The Obama administration is planning a broad reworking of the fees financial firms pay for their federal regulation, increasing the rates for big companies while easing the burden for smaller ones, officials said. The new two-tiered, pay-for-regulation...
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Private equity investors have objected to a new rule proposed by regulators that would require them to inject nearly four times the minimum capital normally required into troubled banks in which they invest. The objections were raised during a marathon...
Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., failed banks, Sheila Bair
Bair's attack has been mostly good news for those interested in seeing a stable, if not sexy, banking system...Bair, who's written some children's books in her career, is spelling it out clearly enough that even your average bank CEO will understand:...
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T wo women who stood up to protect the public in the face of the financial sector’s powerful private interests were honored yesterday by the John F...Bair for her early warnings about the subprime lending crisis, and Born for trying to regulate derivatives....
Tags: Sheila Bair, lending crisis, Brooksley Born, John F., early warn