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The figures follow a deal agreed by European regulators earlier this month that will bring in so-called bail-in rules for senior bondholders from 2016, two years earlier than envisaged by finance ministers in their common position agreed in June. Also consider "stress tests".
The newly decided measures, together with the targeted longer-term refinancing operations which will be conducted in two weeks, will have a sizeable impact on our balancesheet. The projections for 2015 and 2016 have remained unchanged. in 2014, 1.1% in 2015 and 1.4%
China’s four largest banks have quadrupled the share of foreign assets on their balancesheets since 2007 to $1 trillion—that make gives them larger foreign portfolios than German or Italian banks. In 2005, the United States absorbed 67% of all net global capital flows; by 2016, that share had fallen by half.
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Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balancesheet. Participants anticipated a gradual decline in the unemployment rate over the forecast period; a large majority projected that the unemployment rate would not reach their estimates of its longer-run level before 2016.
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