Some universal banks did well, others badly.

Some banks discriminate explicitly against private firms.

Banks lend to banks, so while some are more illiquid than others, they are all intrinsically illiquid institutions.

Some banks may even prefer these flows to direct deposits.

Large amounts are owed to commercial banks by some countries.

Some French banks traders openly boast of backing by the French government, which will never let its banks fail.

Some of the biggest banks in the world would be there.

At some point, investors will realize that bank losses are massive, and that some banks are insolvent.

Despite privatization of some State banks, some element of direction in credit allocation will almost certainly remain.

Funds could be used for recapitalizing the banks and retiring some debt.

Some ideas banks employ a voting system to estimate an idea's value.

Then, as now, many people demanded some punishment for the banks and bankers.

Some investment banks prospered (in Goldman Sachs case, perhaps too much), others collapsed.

Some would go further and either nationalize the banks or break them up.

Some ideas banks are used for the purpose of developing new inventions or technologies.

In some cases, ideas banks can be more humor oriented than their serious counterparts.

Of course, some banks will always do better than others, just as some will suffer more than others from negative trends.

Exposure to Mexican debt alone represented some 90 of the capitalization of major US banks.

Some say that banks are inherently special, because they allocate society s savings and create liquidity.

If central banks are tightening and long term rates aren t rising, one needs some explanation.

And, indeed, the North Atlantic region s governments and central banks have tried to some degree.

Debt write downs and guarantees will inevitably bloat Germany s government debt, as the authorities are forced to bail out German banks (and probably some neighboring countries banks).

The critics want banks to operate with far less leverage, especially regarding short term borrowing indeed, some want all equity banks, so that the system becomes safe.

But the banks that were most affected were elsewhere, and the long term winners will be a few American banks including some of the most notoriously weak banks which will get bigger as a result of the crisis.

While some restrictions on banks will be imposed in the wake of the financial crisis, we will not see a return to severe regulatory constraints on banks activities.

Some economists have begun to argue that central banks need not be so wary of intervening.

Some were pushed there by the high cost of containing the damage from banks irresponsible behavior.

Some banks outside Europe may not recognize IBAN, though this is expected to diminish with time.

Banks

Some kind of penalty or subsidy thus has to be applied to encourage banks to issue them.

Most important, supervision suggested some potential responsibility to recapitalize problematic banks, and thus involved a fiscal cost.

Central banks mystique, enigmatic policy instruments, and virtually unconstrained access to the printing press undoubtedly captivate some.

The Gulf States have been badly hit, because their private sectors, including some banks, were greatly overextended.

Excessive focus on inflation meant that some central banks ignored what was happening to their financial markets.

Some banks have been severely affected by mounting overdue payments, and their net worth is now negative.

The crisis spread because the banking system was not sufficiently risk averse and in some cases even seemed to relish risk. Mortgage banks kept some claims on their books, but sold most of them to investment banks as mortgage backed securities.

There were similar fears recently when it became known that US based money market funds had lent heavily to European banks. And some leading US banks also rely on money market funding here, too, the shadows and the banks have aligned interests.

Indeed, more than thinking, it should have done some regulating to prevent Europe s banks from becoming so vulnerable.

Some retail banks went belly up, like Northern Rock, while others stayed afloat (Santander s UK subsidiary, for example).

Numerous medium sized banks, and some large ones, are set to go under in the stock market turmoil.

Some of this demand is coming from central banks, such as those of India, China, and South Korea.

The banks.

When banks stopped providing short term liquidity to other banks and industrial companies, central banks filled the gap.

There are also substantial investments by American money market funds in instruments issued by some of the exposed banks.

These are times when central banks need to spend some of the credibility that they accumulate in normal times.