Banks to seek rescue plan for bond insurers: CNBC
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Eight banks have formed a consortium  to seek a rescue plan for MBIA Inc , Ambac Financial  Group Inc  and other troubled bond insurers, CNBC  reported on Friday, citing an unnamed source.
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IKB , the German bank which nearly went bust after its subprime investments crashed, is searching for up to 2 billion euros to stay afloat, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
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The board of Northern Rock  is considering mounting a rescue plan to save the ailing British bank from nationalisation or takeover, the Sunday Times reported.
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US financial services group GMAC will lead a rescue bid for stricken bank Northern Rock, according to a media report on Sunday.
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Four big banks face a U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission probe of their auction-rate bond  operations, a securities filing shows.
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Big banks try to gird for crises as a matter of course and investors will soon learn how prepared they were for this summer's credit crunch.
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A major Chinese insurer has announced plans to raise up to $22 billion (euro15.0 billion) for acquisitions at a time when U.S. and European banks, battered by mortgage losses, want infusions of Asian capital to replenish their balance sheets.
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The bond insurer problem must be  fixed, or else it could become a "financial tsunami" that  wreaks havoc on the broader economy, New York Governor Eliot  Spitzer is due to tell the Congress Thursday.
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The recapitalization of U.S. bond insurers hit by the subprime mortgage crisis could occur within "a couple of days," New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said on Thursday.
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The bond firm plans to tackle riskier investments.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's  management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the possibility of more write-downs and chance of legal entanglements from the subprime mortgage crisis could sideline suitors for now, analysts said on Tuesday.
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Two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge  funds that invested heavily in securities backed by subprime  mortgage loans are close to being shut down as a rescue plan is  falling apart, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Wednesday.
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U.S. banking regulators on Tuesday urged mortgage servicers to be proactive and contact borrowers at risk of default to help them avoid foreclosure and keep their homes.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's  management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the specter of more write-downs and possible legal entanglements from the subprime credit crisis might keep suitors on the sidelines, analysts said on Tuesday.
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Commercial and investment banks could see their credit ratings cut if the bond insurers which hedge some of their assets were themselves downgraded, Standard &amp; Poor's said on Tuesday, as billionaire investor Wilbur Ross mulled whether to invest $1 billion or more in the sector.
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Investors in Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large bets on risky mortgages are planning to sue the company as early as Monday, television channel CNBC reported on Friday.