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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Citi Reaches U.S. Deal, "Say on Pay" Sped Up, WaMu Brings Savings]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000491/financial-roundup-citi-reaches-us-deal-say-on-pay-sped-up-wamu-brings-savings/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Citi reaches deal with U.S. -- After days of intense negotiating, the U.S. government has reached a deal to exchange $25 billion in emergency bailout money for a 36 percent equity stake in Citigroup. Shareholders will see their ownership shrink to 26 percent and dividends on common shares are being...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:18:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Did Bad Bankruptcy Laws Doom Circuit City?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000473/did-bad-bankruptcy-laws-doom-circuit-city/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Did flawed changes to Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws make it harder to companies to reorganize and survive?    That will be the topic of a hearing next week by the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law titled "Circuit City unplugged: Why did Chapter 11 fail to save...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:54:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Will Flunk the "Stress Test?"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000471/who-will-flunk-the-stress-test/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Who willÂ fail the "stress test?"    Good question. The Obama administration will soon be checking a number of the country's largest banks which have received some of the $700 billion federal bailout money.    The feds want to know whether the banks have sufficient capital and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:46:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Quant That Ate New York]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000465/the-quant-that-ate-new-york/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the scariest things about the financial meltdown is how evaluating risk has changed dramatically. Federal regulators allowed banks to greatly increase their loan to asset ratios. And all sorts of higher mathematics equations popped up that seemed to justify trading in murky derivatives in ways not considered before....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:37:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: "Stress Test" Due, Questions at Citi, SEC to Grill Bank Directors]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank "stress tests" due -- President Barack Obama, scheduled to address Congress and the nation on the matter tonight, will push for stress tests later this week to check the health of 20 of the country's largest banks. Obama's aim is to identify future loan problems and dispel a cloud...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:39:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Don't Look To Japan For Rescue Ideas]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With talk of Citigroup's possible nationalization still swirling, it's worth studying other such experiences. In an earlier blog, I looked at Sweden's experience at financial rescue and bank nationalization in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with help from a paper written by the Cleveland Federal Reserve.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:29:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank Nationalization, Swedish Style]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000444/bank-nationalization-swedish-style/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Nationalization" has become a very nasty word. Last Friday, for example, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, mentioned that a period of nationalization might be necessary, at least temporarily. Bank stocks roiled. Within minutes of Dodd's remark, stocks of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo plunged 25 percent. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:24:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Obama to Guarantee Private Equity, Probe Bank Chiefs, Directors, Cramdowns Lightened Up]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000440/financial-roundup-obama-to-guarantee-private-equity-probe-bank-chiefs-directors-cramdowns-lightened-up/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama to unlock lending -- President Barack Obama is drawing up a plan to subsidize the profits of big private investment firms in bond markets. As much as $1 trillion could be spent for guarantees to hedge funds and private equity firms so they will continue buying securitized consumer and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:08:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Dirty Secrets of Swiss Banking]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000425/the-dirty-secrets-of-swiss-banking/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The secrecy dam of Swiss banking is finally breaking.    As part of a $780 million settlement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, is going to release the names of Americans who hold secret bank accounts. It isn't known how many names are being...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:50:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Obama Could Help Stabilize Home Prices by This Fall]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will housing really be shored up withÂ President Barack Obama's expected plan to aid homeownersÂ coupled with his signature yesterday of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill?    One school of thought says it will. Here's how:    	The stimulus package will increase tax credits for home buyers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:41:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Bank Pay Limits Today, Mortgage Help, Waterboarding Bankers?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000410/financial-roundup-bank-pay-limits-today-mortgage-help-waterboarding-bankers/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank pay limits to be law today -- Barack Obama will sign into law today a stimulus package that forces top executives at banks getting bailouts to forego bonuses. The last minute change by Sen. Christopher Dodd could have been even more stringent but bankers and financial experts say it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:03:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Can Private Equity Do to Get Rid of Toxic Debt?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000408/what-can-private-equity-do-to-get-rid-of-toxic-debt/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Like hunting hounds on the prowl, private equity groups are picking up scents of profits in toxic bank assets. Will this help the Obama administration in its so-far confused search for a way to toxic bad debt off the market? Maybe some, but there are limits to what private equity...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:13:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Total Bank Losses to  $3.6 Trillion, Mortgage Lender Breaks, Half of CDOs in Default]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000403/financial-roundup-total-bank-losses-to-36-trillion-mortgage-lender-breaks-half-of-cdos-in-default/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ U.S. banking losses could be $3.6 trillion -- Nouriel Roubini, the New York University business professor who accurately predicted the meltdown, now says that the total losses on loans and market value declines is $3.6 trillion. His earlier estimate had been $2 trillion. Roubini thinks the government needs to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:56:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Fox Wants to "Restructure" the SEC Henhouse]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mary Schapiro, the new chairman of the SEC, has plenty to do to invigorate her troubled agency which has been accused of doing little to prevent the financial meltdown and ignoring tips regarding the Bernie Madoff hedge fund scam.    Now the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:26:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Little Bank That Could]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000394/the-little-bank-that-could/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post has an excellent story in his column today about how a little bank in North Carolina used its federal bailout money the right way.    Instead of using $20.5 million in federal bailout funding for executive bonuses or some secret, nefarious purpose,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:17:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: CEOs To Get Grilled, Geithner To Plug Holes, Regionals Not Consolidating]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000391/financial-roundup-ceos-to-get-grilled-geithner-to-plug-holes-regionals-not-consolidating/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Grilling the chiefs -- Eight of the biggest CEO names in banking, including Goldman Sach's Lloyd C. Blankfein, Citigroup's Vikram S. Pandit and Bank of America's Kenneth D. Lewis, will testify before the House Financial Services Committee today. Likely questions include how they spent $160 billion in bailout money, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:41:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bankers, Customers Operate in Separate Universes: Survey]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000379/bankers-customers-operate-in-separate-universes-survey/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Executives of financial service companies are not getting the message that their customers are confused and alienated, according to a new survey by Cohn & Wolfe, a marketing consulting firm.    "Communication is key as are transparency and accountability but we're not seeing it at the top," Matt...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:39:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The "Bad" Bank Shifts to the "Aggregator" Bank]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000359/the-bad-bank-shifts-to-the-aggregator-bank/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal financial relief appears to be coming back full circle now that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner seems ready to propose the creation of a "bad bank." Better make that an "aggregator bank."    The latest twist is that Geithner hopes to get around the complex problem of valuing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:11:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Bailout Details Monday, Treasury Overpaid, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000341/financial-roundup-bailout-details-monday-treasury-overpaid-wall-street-sex-probe/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Geithner to announce new bailout plans Monday -- What could be the next major turn in the bailout story is expected Monday when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announces new details. On the table are tighter restrictions for bailed-out banks and using the Federal Reserve instead of a new "bad bank"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:25:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Will the "Chicken and Egg" Cycle Hampering Corporate Lending Break?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000335/when-will-the-chicken-and-egg-cycle-hampering-corporate-lending-break/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A "chicken and egg" conundrum is plaguing credit markets. While banks that get federal bailout money are faulted for not using the funds to make loans to kickstart the economy, hamstrung corporations are not seeking loans. A Federal Reserve study shows that 60 percent of loan officers at banks surveyed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:49:26 -0800</pubDate>
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