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Bank Results Season: Bank of America with more provisions for 2011 | Insider Insight

The bank has published results with new reserves of $15.6 bln on representation and warranties, $6.3 bln in litigation and another $7.3 bln in Legacy Assets servicing bringing Net Revenues down by $29.2 bln, more than Goldman Sachs produced for

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Financial Markets, US

Bank Results season: BofA manages a $28 bln topline without mortgage business (Q3 2011 $0.56 EPS $13 TBVPS)

America’s heritage bank opened earnings day with a large $28.7 bln topline, that includes among others, $3.6 bln from its sale of 5% of CCB, a trading DVA adjustment ( value of trading book marked to market turned in the

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Posted in Banking, Retail Lifestyle, US

Moynihan to do more in the final act..

Bank of America continues making news for all the wrong reasons, epitomisingĀ a banking sector that put away tough calls for the entire 3 years that it had to get out of the liquidity crisis of 2009. What started as an

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, US

Temasek exits China's banking sector | Advantage zyaada

In an apparent bid to reduce its excessive exposure to Financial institutions, Temasek committed early trades worth $3.6 bln in Hongkong to exit $2.4 bln worth of its stake in Bank of China and another $1.2 bln worth of its

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, China, Financial Markets, Global, Private Equity

Bank Results Season: (Bank of America) A grinch got the banks this season

December 2010 results pouring in have been harrowing to say the least. Bank of America has started its results day with news of a loss. Excluding $2bn impairment charges, the Bank reports a profit of 4 cents per share against

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Posted in Banking, Retail Lifestyle, US

This one snuck in the back door | Financial regulation

zyakaira notes: Two points to note, which would even be clear to regulators and the big banks from here..Dodd’s bill cannot handle derivatives, SAC leader Blanche Lincoln is getting ready for election year. The proposed ‘regulation’ would ask banks to

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Posted in Financial Markets, Financial Services, O'nomics, Retail Lifestyle, Uncategorized

Bank results week: The undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World

Goldman Sachs has done it again. Like its counterparts in Boxing from Muhammed Ali to Mike Tyson, it has outperformed everything and every competitor from banking to asset management on the street and fought governments in doing “God’s work” Even

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Posted in Emerging Markets, Financial Markets, Uncategorized

Bank results week: Bring on the War Paint!

Well, Vikram Pandit’s Citi is finally in business. When they finished 2009, Cit had put almost $900 billion in assets ‘to be disposed’ in Citi Holdings of which only $550 bn was in existence on December 31. $175 B in

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Posted in Emerging Markets, Retail Lifestyle, TARP, Uncategorized, US

Bank Results 2010: BofA off the block

BofA took off in income and profits after repaying TARP cash (TAGP if you will) in the 4th Quarter, studying JPMorgan’s Balance Sheet to report and almost identical $3.2 billion profit on $32 billion in revenue. Spurred by a jump

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Posted in O'nomics, Retail Lifestyle, Uncategorized, US

The legal fallout of the crisis | Advantage zyaada

Among the ones that escaped the notice of the fourth estate earlier, there was some legal action against banks for mis-declarations and civil fraud such as the mortgage ‘quick-cycles’ of Long Island. ( IĀ forget, it was either multiple mortgages on

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Posted in Financial Markets, Infrastructure, O'nomics, Uncategorized, US