Deposits will flow back into Greek banks.

But structured deposits for example, deposits whose rate of return is linked to the performance of the New York Stock Exchange are becoming increasingly popular.

Deposits in the branches of American banks in Buenos Aires were to be as safe as deposits in Miami.

That generally transfers the deposits from the lending bank to another bank.

This is also partly why the Greek economy is affected by the tax on deposits.

The authorities may hope that their plan to insure bank deposits will shift deposits from the three largest banks to many smaller banks around the country, facilitating local startups access to financing.

The Chinese authorities do it today, and they also set the minimum deposits banks must maintain with the central bank.

Or the deposits can be consumer paper issued by KKR Atlantic Financing, and the loans can be CDO sub prime mortgage tranches that KKR Atlantic holds in its portfolio.

Bank subsidiaries will increasingly have to finance local lending with local deposits and other local funding.

The deposits can be individuals paychecks and the loans can be to small businesses.

Indeed, the worsening banking crisis, with deposits fleeing from the eurozone periphery, is further strangling Europe s growth prospects.

When banks make loans, they create deposits for borrowers, who draw on these funds to make purchases.

That scare was contained when the G 7 committed to increase guarantees of bank deposits and to backstop the financial system.

The logic behind the separation was absolutely clear banks whose deposits were insured by the taxpayers should not be allowed to speculate with their depositors money.

The second price spike occurred when Lehman Brothers collapsed, leaving investors scared about the safety of their financial assets including bank deposits.

In 1980, financial assets stocks, bonds, and bank deposits totaled around 100 of GDP in the advanced economies.

Icelandic banks, for example, took deposits in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and swept them back to Reykjavik, leaving the host countries out of pocket.

Even if poor countries were willing to guarantee their deposits, the guarantee would mean less than that from the United States.

The member state would then be legally obliged to make deposits into that account to cover the ECB bonds coupons and principal.

Spanish banks are required to increase their deposits in proportion to their lending and set aside capital against assets in their off balance sheets.

Many small savers place their savings in so called money market funds that pay a premium over ordinary federally insured deposits.

If savers in Portuguese banks start moving their money to Germany, the ECB will recycle these euros back to Portugal through interbank deposits.

Or the deposits can be investments in D.E. Shaw s funds and the loans can be the complex derivatives that make up D.E. Shaw s portfolio.

The inequities are obvious.

The IMF would use those deposits to finance its lending operations, rather than having to rely on quota allocations or arrangements to borrow from members.

Because runs on banks can trigger widespread distress, governments explicitly guarantee insured deposits and implicitly guarantee all the other debts of mega banks.

Remember that in America s Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980 s, the government had to bail out those institutions, because their deposits were federally insured.

A large portion of these holdings are illiquid (total cash in hand and bank deposits combined for Nawaz Sharif and his wife are Rs 140 million) and constant industrial investments in Pakistan.

The European Central Bank would never have allowed Cypriot banks to attract huge deposits by paying above market interest rates, and then to put all of their eggs in one basket (Greece).

In the single financial market, banks are allowed to take deposits anywhere, without local approval, if they are authorized to do so in one European country.

This is particularly true of the repo markets, which provide the equivalent services for professional investors banks and large corporations that ordinary bank deposits provide for individuals and small firms.

Banks would then find it advantageous to hold their surplus liquidity in the form of T bills as long as these bills yielded more than bank deposits held at the ECB.

Traditional lending and deposit taking still offers much growth potential and may become more attractive relative to investment banking or asset management as a result of new regulation.

In some countries tax burdens are increasing governments, having little economic solvency, continue to create taxes which affect bank deposits and, in a sense, penalise those with the most money.

The coup de grâce was delivered by the government's decision (when the crisis came) to keep bank deposits fixed in dollars and to change debts owed to banks into pesos, thereby bankrupting the country's financial system with a single stroke of the pen.

The UK s Financial Services Authority has been invoking the same rationale for requiring foreign banks to establish local subsidiaries, rather than taking deposits or lending through a branch of the parent bank.

Or the deposits can be consumer paper issued by KKR Atlantic Financing, and the loans can be CDO sub prime mortgage tranches that KKR Atlantic holds in its portfolio.

A bank, at bottom, is something that (a) takes deposits, (b) provides loans, (c) pretends to its depositors that their money (its liabilities) are more liquid than its assets, (d) collects net interest as a result, and (e) gets away with it almost all the time. The deposits can be individuals paychecks and the loans can be to small businesses.

A bank, at bottom, is something that (a) takes deposits, (b) provides loans, (c) pretends to its depositors that their money (its liabilities) are more liquid than its assets, (d) collects net interest as a result, and (e) gets away with it almost all the time.