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- Will FDIC's Blair Get It Right?
- John Preston submits: Every commentary regarding the dire straits the general economy finds itself in always makes reference to housing and mortgage issues. Why then, have not more thoughtful efforts come forth the resolve these twin problems? Sheila Bair appears to have taken the point position within the...
- External links 2008-10-26
- The Health of Banks
- Harry Smith spoke with FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair about the agency's role in bank closings and whether their budget can handle the rise in bank closings predicted this year.
- Videos 2009-03-09
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- Why It's Time For Sheila Bair To Apologize To Citi's Pandit
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC chairman Sheila Bair got a well-deserved kick in the teeth this week when consultant Egon Zehnder International endorsed Citigroup's chief executive Vikram Pandit. According to people who claim to have read the report, Pandit received "a positive assessment" by Egon Zehnder in the independent review...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Sheila Bair Vs. Tim Geithner: Who Should Wind Down Failed Banks?
- The rally stalled today as we tried to absorb how swine flu could be a major headline in a developed nation. As it turned out, bulls took a back seat to bears in general, and to one in particular -- Sheila Bair, chairman of the FDIC. Bair...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Has Sheila Bair Finally Learned Her Lesson?
- Keith R. McCullough submits: Poor Sheila Bair. She is getting kudos from the public – including a smart piece praising her in the current New Yorker magazine (28 June, “The Contrarian: Sheila Bair and the White House Financial Debate”). Bair was just honored with the Profile in Courage Award from...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Jumping into the deep end: Washington hand, Sheila Bair, guides the FDIC through minefields of controversy with her strong policy background and a sense of humor.(CAPITAL PROFILE)(Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.)
- FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair has extraordinary credentials. But, then, achievers, not slouches, are generally named to head the agency that insures most of the nation's savings. But she does have a unique "first" to her credit, something that FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair has extraordinary credentials....
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Sheila Bair - World's Worst Regulator - to Stay at FDIC
- Tom Brown submits: So Sheila Bair will hang around as head of the FDIC in the Obama administration. Ugh. I know, I know, Bair is hugely popular in certain circles in Washington, and never fails to get adoring press (most recently, as it happens, in the New Republic). But...
- External links 2009-01-11
- Fire the Banking Bastards: Sheila Bair Lays Down the Law
- Keep an eye out for new resumes! Last week, FDIC head-honcho Sheila Bair said that some heads of the stress-tested banks may lose their jobs. You can almost hear Ken Lewis cry, "I thought that the test was pass-pass!" In her interview on Bloomberg TV, Bair said...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Sheila Bair Needs to Get Over This Loan Mod Thing
- Tom Brown submits: Sheila Bair warns of a “backlash” against MBS investors who’ve challenged loan modifications in court, and announces that lenders have “an obligation to modify, not to foreclose.” Oh, really? An obligation to whom, exactly? There’s no shortage of duties in the money management business, but this...
- External links 2008-12-23
- Why Sheila Bair Will Lose to Geithner
- The pitched battle over regulatory reform essentially boils down to two perspectives. There is the Geithner camp that argues systemic risk should be monitored and minimized when it pops up. And there is the Sheila Bair camp that says the prospect of concentrated systemic risk should be eliminated before it...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Sheila Bair's Citi Focused Summer
- Matthew Goldstein submits: Sheila Bair and Dick Parsons may not be best friends, but they certainly spent a lot of time together this summer. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. head Bair and the Citigroup C chairman met or spoke on the phone on at least five occasions during...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair to Address U.S. Foreclosure Crisis at Greenlining Institute's 14th Annual Economic Development Summit in Downtown Los Angeles, April 19
- LOS ANGELES -- Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair and other high-ranking banking and Federal government regulators will address the country's growing foreclosure crisis and its impact on minority consumers at the Greenlining Institute's 14th Annual Economic Development Summit, April 19, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown...
- Research articles 2007-04-09
- Sheila Bair Doesn't Seem to Want This Banking Crisis to End
- So now Sheila Bair wants to require private equity investors maintain a 15% Tier 1 ratio at banks they own (vs. 8% for non-PE investors) and hold their bank investments for at least three years before selling. Wilbur Ross is not happy: Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, whose...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Sheila Bair: FDIC Sell Toxic Assets? Forget It
- Sheila Bair suddenly sees the wisdom of banks working their troubled assets rather than selling them into an inhospitable market: by Matt Stichnoth
- External links 2009-09-01
- FDIC Chief Sheila Bair to Treasury Brat Geithner: Nyah!
- Ignoring Tim Geithner, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair publicly reiterates her support for a council of regulators to monitor systemic risk by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- GMAC's Deal with Sheila Bair
- Earnings Call ExcerptGMAC sold more FDIC-backed debt today… (Reuters) General Motors Acceptance Corp on Wednesday sold $2.9 billion in three-year government-guaranteed notes, according to a market source familiar with the sale. The 1.75 percent notes were priced at 99.991 to yield 1.753 percent, or 31.6 basis points over comparable...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-28
- Advice To Team Obama: Keep FDIC's Bair
- Now comes word that Timothy Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for U.S. Treasury Secretary, is trying to push Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair out of office. So much for Obama's "team of rivals" governing philosophy. Apparently, Geithner worries that Bair is not a team player,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Bair thought to be in line for FDIC chairman
- Current speculation from Washington, D.C., is that Sheila Bair, a former Treasury official in the Bush Administration, is the president's choice to succeed Donald Powell as FDIC chairman. Bair, who served as the Treasury's assistant secretary for financiaCurrent speculation from Washington, D.C., is that Sheila Bair, a former Treasury official...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- FDIC's Bair Sees Consensus on "too Big to Fail"
- CHICAGO (Reuters) - Key officials and lawmakers are reaching a "growing consensus" on the need for a strong mechanism that would allow the government to dismantle troubled financial giants, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Monday.Sheila Bair said administration officials, top bank regulators and lawmakers all...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Bair Warns of Slow Bank, Economic Recovery
- By Karey WutkowskiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 Deposit Insurance...
- News items 2009-10-14
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