They are well off.

The few rich Haitians distrust Aristide.

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.

Mortgage banks kept some claims on their books, but sold most of them to investment banks as mortgage backed securities. The investment banks blended these securities into asset backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and sold them on to financial institutions throughout the world.

The investment banks blended these securities into asset backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and sold them on to financial institutions throughout the world.

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.

Mortgage backed securities were urged onto investors for whom they were too risky.

The dubious mortgage securities are so called mortgage backed securities.

That these collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs, or bonds backed by a pool of mortgages) found a ready market, both in the US and abroad, reflects failure on several fronts.

But markets would happily gorge on bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the eurozone.

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.

As a result, bringing down yields on government, corporate, and asset backed bonds has less impact.

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

This means no cross border sovereign debt (or esoteric instruments, such as collateralized debt obligations).

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.

(c) To establish a fully staffed and funded judiciary which effectively protects the rights of all citizens

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

The prices of traded mortgage backed securities have followed house prices down.

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.

The mortgage backed securities that US banks succeeded in selling to the world are not comparable to European assets with similar names.

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.

The prices of structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations have come down, because the institutional fraud of a multi fold chain of securitizations has been detected. Cash back loans to NINJA (No Income, No Job, and No Assets) customers that included voluminous fees to brokers and were securitized and structured up to 60 times do not represent any value.

The prices of structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations have come down, because the institutional fraud of a multi fold chain of securitizations has been detected.

The big American investment banks received excellent ratings up to the last moment, and so did the CDOs with which they betrayed the world.

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.

When home prices stop rising, recent homebuyers may lose the enthusiasm to continue paying their mortgages and investors lose faith in mortgage backed securities.

In Europe, particularly Germany, a mortgage backed security ( Pfandbrief ) is an ultra safe asset, as normally banks finance no more than 60 of a house s value. By contrast, such US securities are like a lottery ticket.

In Europe, particularly Germany, a mortgage backed security ( Pfandbrief ) is an ultra safe asset, as normally banks finance no more than 60 of a house s value.

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