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U.S. and UK to test big bank collapse in joint model run
Reuters ^ | Oct 10, 2014 | Randall Palmer and Douwe Miedema

Posted on 10/10/2014 5:57:53 PM PDT by driftdiver

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Regulators from the United States and the United Kingdom will get together in a war room next week to see if they can cope with any possible fall-out when the next big bank topples over, the two countries said on Friday.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, on Monday will run a joint exercise simulating how they would prop up a large bank with operations in both countries that has landed in trouble.

Also taking part are Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, and the heads of a large number of other regulators, in a meeting hosted by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

"We are going to make sure that we can handle an institution that previously would have been regarded as too big to fail. We're confident that we now have choices that did not exist in the past," Osborne said at the International Monetary Fund's annual meeting.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: banks; collapse; economy; obama
Why would they be doing this?
1 posted on 10/10/2014 5:57:53 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: blam; Kartographer

ping


2 posted on 10/10/2014 6:03:54 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Well that sounds promising!


3 posted on 10/10/2014 6:06:38 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: driftdiver

“That’s not gonna be good for anybody”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2RKmVqnNdw


4 posted on 10/10/2014 6:12:15 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: driftdiver

Yeah..why not just force the Too Big to Fails to systemically sell or spin off certain segments


5 posted on 10/10/2014 6:14:45 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: driftdiver

It was never meant to be a test.
It’s training, and conditioning, of us masses.
Get used to it, Citizen!

What kind of bleak future will our Grandchildren face?


6 posted on 10/10/2014 6:16:50 PM PDT by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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To: driftdiver

“Why would they be doing this?”

Because somewhere, a “Big Bank” is in big trouble, and they are trying to decide of they should let it fail.

Candidates:

Barclay’s
Scotiabank
JP Morgan
Bank of America
Northern Rock
Santander


7 posted on 10/10/2014 6:18:46 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: driftdiver
LETITFAIL!

Didn't you Bozos learn anything the last time?

9 posted on 10/10/2014 6:38:59 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: tcrlaf

You left off Lloyd’s. I thought they were still basically on the precipice and that Barclay’s was doing relatively ok?


10 posted on 10/10/2014 7:07:36 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: driftdiver

Practice.


11 posted on 10/10/2014 8:03:37 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: driftdiver; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Ummmmm, I mean Dead Banks...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

12 posted on 10/10/2014 8:23:10 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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To: null and void

hmmmm


13 posted on 10/10/2014 8:45:29 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Red in Blue PA

I suggest shooting some of the bankers and Wall Street honchos. See if that makes the rest a little bit more honest.


14 posted on 10/10/2014 9:09:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


15 posted on 10/11/2014 9:17:43 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: fanfan

New term to become familiar with: Bail In.
Your deposits belong to the bank.


16 posted on 10/12/2014 3:55:34 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: driftdiver
Why the theater?

The elites have a master plan.

This is but a tiny part of it.

17 posted on 10/16/2014 5:27:16 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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