Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a very real risk that Koizumi's plans to reform the banking sector will be so watered down that they will end up pleasing no one.

Wal-Mart sees banking as an opportunity to give the customer a better deal. That's what Wal-Mart's about. That's why they have demolished the food and toy industries. If it's better for the customers, then that's the way it ought to be.

We have already made big progress in banking reforms.

Hugh Johnson

We need to watch the Japanese parliament and see if they do anything about their banking crisis.

Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.

Martin Taylor

We made a strategic decision to redefine our investment banking business in the autumn, because continuing to invest in parts of the business no longer made commercial sense for us.

With the financials, that entire space has been tarnished by a confidence crisis. Also, on a more fundamental level rather than a psychological level, there's no investment banking business going on right now. The concerns remain about the banks' exposure to bankrupt telecoms WorldCom and Global Crossing,

RIM has consistently acknowledged that Supreme Court review is granted in only a small percentage of cases and we were not banking on Supreme Court review.

Retail banking remains a concern, as does unsecured lending. However, with bid speculation helping the valuation, this should provide support for the share price.

Retail banking is a distribution game. The models for best practices in distribution are companies like Wal-Mart and the niche retailers.

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

Investors already learned about the recovery in Japan's banking industry and the Mizuho sale gives them another investment opportunity.

Investment banking really did knock the cover off the ball. We're moving from a pretty weak performance into a better-performing business.

Investment banking is relatively easy to forecast, but the trading side is a tough one.

In the past, such a move effectively wiped out the national banking sector in Eastern Europe.

If you want to be a survivor in the global banking market, you need size, and the U.S. is the best place to get it.

If you're looking at the Chinese banking market, it's underdeveloped, offering good opportunities for growth.

In older buildings the seal between the sill and the foundation is never as good as it should be. I think banking the foundation helps keep the floor warmer, it helps keep you comfortable in the winter, especially in old buildings.

I like two stocks, Apache and Ocean Energy. I don't own either of them. The firm doesn't make a market in any of them. We don't have an investment banking relationship, to the best of my knowledge, but I think both stocks have done well in the poor market, ... Apache is really building a pipeline of reserves. They drill in seven major countries. They're natural gas rich. They have held in this market and I think we can look for big earnings coming up over the next year or two.

Citigroup is a latecomer to China's banking industry and it has catching up to do. It makes more sense for Citigroup to explore other options, such as taking stakes in Guangdong Bank, which also has a national distribution network, to help them expand.

Alan Greenspan

In an environment of weak financial systems, lax supervisory regimes, and vague assurances about depositor or creditor protections, the state of confidence so necessary to the functioning of any banking system was torn asunder.

In Asia, it seems like everyone's putting in new core banking systems. The top six Indian banks have core system replacements under way.

Don Baylor

I looked at Mel. He was healthy. I was banking on that.

I'm looking for high growth rates. The powerful banking forces of the next 10 years will have lead to a big exposure to one or more of Brazil, Russia, India or China. We have exposure at the moment in both India and China and I'd like to see that exposure grow.

i-flex is a perfect partner to Oracle with its competence in core banking sector.

Tommy Chong

I never had a criminal record. They were kinda banking on the fact that I was dirty as can be.

In India, we are working on some investment banking transactions with an offshore component to them.

Kevin Ashton

In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated,

The investment banking team will be first on the ground, fixed income and equities will be the next phase. We'll do some transfers and we'll hire some people locally.

The Fed is moving to the sidelines, 50 percent of the regional banks businesses as a rule are still related to the direction of interest rates. We think interest rates are headed lower. Capital markets remain very active. Fleet is in that business. They have an investment banking division, too, now. So the shares are quite cheap at about 13, 14 times earnings.

The Fed is happy to provide all the reserves the banking system needs, ... It's told the banking system 'Ya'll lend now,' and they're doing it.

It's not a slam dunk to get people from Internet banking into bill pay. You have to get people comfortable with it first of all.