Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even after the robust first-quarter performance, our investment banking pipeline ended the period higher than the strong year-end level and meaningfully higher than a year ago.

David Coleman

Europe has a much greater banking sector exposure to Brazil than the U.S..

Five-year notes are a better bet as they have priced in a reduction of the money in the banking system. Long bonds have yet to fully price in the probability that the Bank of Japan will end the current easing policy.

Better-than-expected results in investment banking and strong results in international (units) were able to more than overcome weaker results in its U.S. consumer business.

Adam McKay

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game.

Bobby Labonte

We've had some success at Fontana, but have never won there. It's a lot like Michigan, which is a track I really like, but the banking is a little less at California. I like the racetrack and, hopefully, we'll have some success there this weekend. We ran decent in February at Fontana, but we never really got a handle on the car. Hopefully we'll improve on that this week.

Everybody has understood that banking is crucial to moving the field forward. This is a concrete step, and we're doing it first.

John Gibbons

Baseball's a gamble. We went for the top two guys out there. We're banking on them. And they're banking on us.

Jim McKelvey

At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.

At the time, there was no minority banking service in New Orleans.

Rick Pitino

I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.

We are very pleased with our first quarter results. The company's strong performance demonstrates the benefits of our continued diversification and enhanced operational focus. This past quarter we had particularly strong results in Retail Banking and Card Services.

We are very pleased to have obtained our ticker symbol so early after formation of the Bank. Having a market maker allows our staff to focus completely on banking and our clients' needs without the distraction of handling stock transactions.

We are very pleased to have Mr. Colbert join us as president and CEO. J.D. Colbert brings a strong record of success in the executive positions that he has held in banking and Indian country. We believe that he is a great fit for our organization and we look forward to exciting accomplishments under his leadership.

Scott Morrison

We will be an early warning for the rest of the world, particularly the banking and financial centers of the Northern Hemisphere.

You don't keep customers by insulting them or downgrading them, ... When you're in a meeting with buy-side clients, you say 'This is an investment banking client.' It's a code word for 'I'm not going to be harsh on this client,' or 'You need to read between the lines.'

The results are very strong. We are particularly encouraged by the private banking results and especially by the net new money inflow, which was very strong.

There should be someone on the board of governors with real on-the-ground banking experience and he certainly has that.

The time has come to look at whether New York banking has become anti-competitive. A merger of this size is something that low-income neighborhoods cannot afford. We've had more than enough.

Tyler Cowen

What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.

Chris Wallace

We had the first-game jitters. We had a lot of guys who were playing their first-ever indoor game. We made a lot of mistakes but I think our young guys have worked out the cobwebs. I'm hoping that it's going to be a lot different game than two weeks ago. No, I'm banking on it being a lot different game.

The deal is very positive for the Mexican banking industry and the Mexican economy as a whole.

Lawrence Summers

We want to be candid about the need for them to reform their banking system and do more on trade and the like, but the guy (Hashimoto) is also under a lot of pressure right now.

Well, such as opening up some sectors of banking, branch banking for instance. It isn't a legislative matter, it's a matter for administrative action.

What we see is a banking industry that is fundamentally strong but continues to face some important challenges ahead.

Vince Cable

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

The place is growing very rapidly and the banking sector is growing as a multiple of that.

We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big opportunities our senior management sees globally.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

Jason Clarke

People want both. They want branches where they can talk to people and the convenience of online banking when they can log on out of hours. The two feed off each other.