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FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Assessing the banking industry's exposure to an implicit government guarantee of gses |
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OCC Bulletin
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Income Alternatives Preferred stocks are some of the best sources of income that many investors don't know about. |
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OCC Bulletin
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Estimating the Capital Impact of Basel II in the United States We use 19 years of financial data from all FDIC-insured commercial banks to develop a range of values for the key Basel II risk parameters that banks might be expected to use over time. This allows us to estimate average capital requirements under the A-IRB approach under a range of economic conditions. |
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OCC Bulletin
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A Yen for Yield There's a little-known corner of the securities market that could help brokers win kudos from clients who have exhausted safe domestic sources of good yield: foreign preferred stock. |
OCC Bulletin
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Proposed Revisions to Risk-Based Capital Implementing the new Basel Capital Accord This bulletin briefly summarizes the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) and Supervisory Guidance developed for corporate credit risk and operational risk that were published today in the Federal Register. |
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ETFs With a Preference Preferred stock funds offer great dividends. Read about about three preferred stock ETFs. |
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Corrective Lenses Some experts contend that Options-Pricing models give a better view of cost of capital. |
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Basel II: Burden Or Opportunity? Savvy banks know the price is worth it: Banks that embrace rather than resist Basel II, the mammoth proposal designed to control operational and credit risk, will claim a greater competitive advantage in the marketplace, say technology analysts. |
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Major Canadian Banks Become Basel II Compliant IT vendors that helped major Canadian banks achieve Basal II compliance are passing on their knowledge to smaller Canadian and US banks. |
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Primed for Income An old standby -- the closed-end fund -- is showing new life, finding a receptive audience among the income needy. |
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OCC Bulletin
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BusinessWeek
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The Lowdown on Basel II Its No. 1 goal is to smooth out financial crises, and its main method is fine-tuning banks' capital requirements. |
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Former Regulator Takes the Chairman's Seat; Imaging Still Under Fire; The Changing Character of Tier 1 Capital; Spending Trends Point toward More Security A former top regulator takes the bank chairman's seat... More legal turmoil with imaging technology... An update on Tier 1... A spending report on bank security systems... |
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