The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.
[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.
In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.
You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.
I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
I dream of a Digital India where mobile and e-Banking ensures Financial Inclusion.
We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems. . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.