In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.
Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!
The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.
I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.
Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.
Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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.
If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.
I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.
I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end.
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.
In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate, and tourism development. Together they create synergy.
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
My belief is India's banking industry will continue to grow at two and a half times the GDP growth rate.
The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.
We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a consideration when we decided to invest in Shriram Group.
I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc.
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.
There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.
I've had a lot of different companies. I've been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things.
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.
What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?
Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering
If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.
After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
We have put in place policies through supervision and regulation that has greatly enhanced the safety and soundness of the banking system.
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.
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