Quotes About Banking

If defaults spread beyond Greece, the stability of Europe's entire banking system could be at risk.

it is similar to the central bank balance sheets of other major industrial countries.

With that law still in place, Citi likely could not have become as large and complex as it did.

42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.

Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it's about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Denmark and Estonia both refused to prosecute the Danske Bank case when we filed in 2013.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.

Do we have to regulate derivatives? Yes, we do. 'Cause when I did this in my investments, frankly, no one knew who could pay who. But derivatives have an important place in our economy.

The hardest obstacles for Bitcoin companies are banking and regulation.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.

I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.

The administration will look at Glass-Steagall and what I referred to as the 21st-century Glass-Steagall as part of regulatory reform.

Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

It's not that the regulator doesn't want the banking industry to grow. The growth of the industry has always been in relation to the GDP (gross domestic product) growth.

I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations.

I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.