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		<title><![CDATA[Nasdaq Could Thrive From Crisis, But Isn't Immune from Competition]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10001138/nasdaq-could-thrive-from-crisis-but-isnt-immune-from-competition/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Magnus Bocker, president of Nasdaq OMX Group, was touting the business model of exchanges at the Global Financial Forum organized late last month at J.P. Morgan Chase. While exchanges could thrive in the current financial climate, they aren't immune from its woes or increasing competition in the industry.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:36:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ackman Loses Against Banks' Bondholders]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While hedge fund manager Bill Ackman intensifies his proxy fight against Target to change the makeup of the retailer's board, the head of Pershing Square Capital Management has already lost an inning against banks' bondholders.    According to Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, Ackman has backed himself into a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:34:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Even Without TALF, GMAC Will Get Fed Support]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10001068/even-without-talf-gmac-will-get-fed-support/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Several corners of the consumer lending world are regaining signs of life thanks to the Term Asset-backed securities Loan Facility TALF. GMAC LLC, the auto financing company that was asked to raise $11.5 billion of new capital following the stress test of its balance sheet, isn't one of them. Nevertheless,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:54:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank of America's Capital Requirement To Boost Government Stake]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's looking less and less likely Bank of America will be repaying the funds it borrowed through the Treasury Asset Relief Program TARP early, as it had once hoped.    The Wall Street Journal reported that regulators told the bank it needs to address a capital shortfall of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 07:22:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[E*Trade Asked to Raise New Capital Without Access to TARP]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000975/etrade-asked-to-raise-new-capital-without-access-to-tarp/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[E*Trade is the latest company to have been dragged into the stress tests run by U.S. federal bank regulators and has been asked to raise new capital as a result. But unlike the "too-big-to-fail" 19 major financial institutions also undergoing stress tests, the online broker -- which doubles as a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:26:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Up to 9 Stress-Tested Banks May Need Fresh Capital, Says KKR's Maughan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just days before the government releases official results of the much-hyped stress tests applied to 19 financial institutions, discussions on which ones will be required to raise capital are still going strong. According to Sir Deryck Maughan, partner and chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Japan who also leads the KKR...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:49:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman, Citibank and Others Rely on Earnings Tricks -- But Not Revised Mark-to-Market Rules]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000870/goldman-citibank-and-others-rely-on-earnings-tricks-but-not-revised-mark-to-market-rules/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial institutions have been using a whole array of tricks to boost earnings for the first quarter and beat analysts' estimates, but the revised accounting rules on mark-to-market, which was supposed to smooth unrealized losses, hasn't been one of them. Maybe for the simple reason that it won't improve earnings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:24:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[J.P. Morgan Shows Confidence With Non-Guaranteed Debt Issue]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000836/jp-morgan-shows-confidence-by-issuing-non-guaranteed-debt/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[J.P. Morgan, like Goldman Sachs a few months ago, impressed investors by issuing bonds without government backing. But building up confidence in the markets isn't the only reason to do so. by Marine Cole]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:37:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VC Industry In Trouble But PIPEs May Save the Day --- For Some]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000822/vc-industry-in-trouble-but-pipes-may-save-the-day-for-some/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Battered by the slump in global markets, venture-capital firms and their private-equity counterparts are turning to investments in public companies, usually as PIPE -- private investments in public equity -- investors. It may be the only bright part for VCs these days, as the global recession has slowed new financings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:14:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FASB Change Doesn't Ease the Fair Value Rule]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000706/fasb-isnt-dramatically-changing-fair-value-rule-just-providing-more-guidance/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the demand of Congress, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is once again modifying its accounting standard on fair value measurement -- FAS 157, for short --  in a meeting today. But FASB isn't really easing the rule, as the WSJ suggested yesterday. Instead, it's really just clarifying how...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:04:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Europe's Backing of Troubled Banks Rivals U.S. Spending -- And Sometimes Tops It]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000634/europes-backing-of-troubled-banks-rivals-us-spending-and-sometimes-tops-it/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Europe may have taken a recent rhetorical drubbing for not shouldering its weight in support of the global economy. But the Old World is pouring just as much money into its shaky financial institutions as the U.S. -- and sometimes more. by Marine Cole]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:37:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Textron Financial Could Benefit From New TALF Lending]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000618/textron-financial-will-benefit-from-new-talf/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Textron, the maker of Cessna jets, may be getting fresh liquidity with the new version of the federal Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility, a Federal Reserve lending program. Oddly enough, it can thank the boating industry for that.    Textron's financing arm, Textron Financial, provides leases for a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan And Rivals Benefit From Healthcare M&As]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000596/investment-banks-like-goldman-sachs-and-morgan-stanley-benefit-from-healthcare-mas-in-1q/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Investment banks can thank the healthcare sector -- particularly the drug industry -- for providing much-needed fee income from mergers and acquisitions so far this year. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley were all able to remain dominant in M&A league tables of financial advisers on a global basis, according...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:24:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[For E*Trade, $34M Illegal-Trading Fine May Be the Least of Its Troubles]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000581/etrade-to-pay-34-million-to-sec-for-illegal-trading/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen firms had to settle charges of illegal trading with the SEC at the beginning of the month. Charged with so-called trading ahead between 1999 and 2005, they had to pay a collective $70 million. Trading ahead occurs when a firm places its own trade orders before those of its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:54:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Legislators Debate "Fair Value" Again -- But Don't Expect a Suspension of the Accounting Rule]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000562/legislators-debate-fair-value-again-but-dont-expect-a-suspension-of-the-accounting-rule/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There's yet another hearing on "fair value" accounting today, this time in the House subcommittee on capital markets. But don't expect a suspension of the rule that requires to mark-to-market valuation of financial instruments held by financial institutions.    Earlier this week, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:02:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Some Community Banks -- Like Hudson City and TCF -- Profit From Financial Crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000551/some-community-banks-profit-from-financial-crisis/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report by the Aite Group, a research and advisory group to the financial services industry, found that community banks are well positioned to take advantage of new opportunities resulting from the financial crisis. Some of them, such as Hudson City Savings Bank and TCF Bank, have actually already...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:47:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks Lose on Stimulus Package's Tax Provisions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government continues to help U.S. banks, most recently by increasing its stake in Citigroup to 36 percent, but it's been less supportive on the tax front with those same financial institutions.    Back in the fall, the Treasury Department and the IRS were being generous with banks....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:01:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FDIC Prepares Premium Hikes to Brace for More Bank Failures]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000475/give-and-you-shall-receive/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Banks will soon start receiving more funds from the government after regulators conduct new stress tests, but they'll also have to pay higher insurance premiums to the FDIC so it can beÂ ready for future bank failures.    Speaking at a Foreign Policy Association dinner last night in NewÂ York,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:43:55 -0800</pubDate>
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