Quotes About Banking

Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

The oligarchs' business model was changing, too. In the early 1990s, most of the great fortunes were made in banking, by taking advantage of high inflation or otherwise stealing from the state. But the 1998 crash had driven many of the oligarchs' banks out of business.

In the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky made a fortune by attracting government deposits to his bank and speculating against the collapsing ruble. His bank, Menatep, was the largest holder of government funds, and much of the profit he made as a banker came at the government's expense.19 Khodorkovsky used his banking business to expand into other sectors, purchasing the Yukos oil company at a knock-down price in 1995 through a scandal-plagued privatization scheme.

Be content with 3-4% interest on your amount deposited in nationalized banks rather than be lured with fabricated success rich making stories widely spread by crook brokerage firms of stock market

On coming Monday, the share price of BOB Bank Of Baroda is likely to touch Rs.90 and internet service be closed down and web trading platform of brokers be intentionally clamp down so that intraday short selling small players are not able to transact

I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

then head of ING Bank in Shanghai, said it all: "The bad news is that the Big Four are insolvent; the good news is that they're sovereign." Technically, no state-owned commercial bank in China enjoys sovereign backing. In practice, however, the Big Four, as weak as they are, are as solid as China itself. As long as the government stands

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

I have and will continue to oppose any legislation that would undermine the important consumer protections provided under Dodd-Frank.

Mediobanca is undervalued but less undervalued than other banks.

The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness, and more broadly for the stability of the financial system.

The staff members of all banks have worked very hard, and we all owe them our gratitude.

There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how - the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

When we in our sector talk of the adoption of Indian consumers to new products and innovative ways of doing banking, they always exceed our expectations.

Thirty years on, things have changes to the extent that Wayne Rooney could comfortably afford to employ the best-paid banker in Britain full-time, if he could see any purpose or momentary amusement in doing so.

Whigs and Republicans supported all kinds of "improvements" to promote economic growth and upward mobility—internal improvements" in the form of roads, canals, railroads, and the like; tariffs to protect American industry and labor from low-wage foreign competition; a centralized, rationalized banking system.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.