I have been reading the financial posts on ATS and other forums and I think it is time for you to take in to account OTHER important information.
Many "not American banks" have been buying "litle" Banks, an large participations in other banks so they can also get some of your never ending
taxpayer money.
One exemple:
Opus Dei Bank - 1926: Founding of Banco Popular Español (BPE)
- 2007: BPE bought a small bank in Southern Florida (United States of America) called TotalBank for 300 hundred million US$. The bank has 14 branches
in Miami Dade County and 250 employees
en.wikipedia.org...
Another:
Santander buying back $23.6B in debt
philly.com
Aug 24, 2009
Aug 20, 2009 3
Sovereign Bancorp has cut its Pennsylvania staff to 2,710, from 3,227 at the beginning of the year, confirmed spokesman Andrew Gully, when I asked
him. Cuts aren't just at the Boston bank's former Wyomissing and Philadelphia headquarters. It's "across the business lines," says Gully,
spokesman for
Sovereign, which is owned by Spain's Banco Santander. Nationally, Sovereign has slipped from 12,000 to just under 10,000 workers
in eight states. So 517 jobs gone in PA, some of them after the January 30 deal between the bank and dissident shareholder-employees. That deal says
"Santander will not terminate and will not to permit Sovereign to terminate, except, in either case, for cause, the employment of any Sovereign
employees employed by Sovereign in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" until next year.
Banco Santander SA, Spain's biggest lender and the parent of Sovereign Bancorp Inc., is offering to buy back asset-backed bonds with a face value of
16.5 billion euros ($23.6 billion) at a discount, Bloomberg News reported today.
- Sovereign Bank is the 19th-largest banking institution in the United States
The bank has more than $90 billion in assets, operates 750 retail banking offices, over 2,300 ATMs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Bank
Another:
Spain's BBVA to take Guaranty assets, sources say
chron.com
Aug 20, 2009 81 related
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria of Spain has been selected to take over assets of Texas lender Guaranty Financial Group in a U.S.-assisted
transaction, people familiar with the situation said Wednesday.
I could go on and on... but I think you can get a good picture of what I'm talking about.