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Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

We are possibly facing one of the worst periods, with profit warnings likely to come out some more, and banks and corporations are stepping up unloading of cross-held shares into September,

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

There are continued expectations of more Fed rate increases, whereas with other central banks we may only see a one- off move here and there. The reasons to be in the dollar outweigh any other currency.

While large banks need to cut network and work forces to enhance efficiency, small city commercial banks may need to expand to increase economy of scale.

Michael Birch

With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere; either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades.

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

We leveraged our relationship with private banks and reached out to Internet service providers to create a low-cost Web site that will enable users to register once and subsequently transact with the government,

As more and more women started their own businesses, banks started providing capital, markets started opening up to them, and women became involved in established networks for expertise, coaching and referrals. There was a circular effect that encouraged more women to go into business.

All of us had worked for big banks before. We weren't real enthused about that prospect, ... Once the transaction was closed, I think we all looked at each other and saw it in everybody's eyes and said, 'Hmmm, this is not where we want to be.'

It's just a greater opportunity with more banks and longer hours.

It sends a very serious message to those banks that have not yet settled that they better get about settling soon or they are going to pay more and more as time goes by,

A lot of people are taking some money off the table, especially on the best-performing sectors, and the banks have been one of the biggest performers.

A lot of food banks are low this time of year. That's why Curves started their food drive.

A lot of the banks have been able to grow their deposits very nicely. That was partly due to all of us being too scared to put our money in the stock market, or the bond market for that matter.

A lot of people used to talk about the financial supermarket but it's clear that companies aren't getting rewarded for that model anymore. For the foreseeable future, it's likely banks will be spinning off (or selling) their insurance operations.

A lot of the savings dollars rest in the mainstream banks but I don't think the consumer has got the best deal out of that and has not necessarily been provided with the most appropriate product.

Jeff Davis

They have been opportunistic when opportunities present themselves ... they've probably got a couple dozen banks within the footprint that they have a high interest in if they were to sell.

They don't try to be Wal-Mart. Small banks recognize they need to specialize, rather than try to offer the full range of products. And specialization leads to more efficiencies.

They're trying to create a sense of concern so that when the government goes out to banks and local governments and says, 'Here's what you need to do,' there will be some pressure.

They (the Legislature) robbed all the little piggy banks of all the schools to make it look like they were delivering tax relief. All districts need surplus, like every business or household.

Thomas Ken

It's not quite like Donald Trump and the Beverly Hillbillies, but the differences in these two banks are striking.

For markets, this is another sign that concerted tightening by global central banks is progressing.

For big banks that want to remain major players, this move is going to force them to make strategic mergers, just like 1998.

Foreign central banks will continue to buy Treasuries, so I am a little bullish. Yields may drop below 4.30 percent in the short-term.

Foreign central banks are doing precisely the same thing -- and in much larger magnitudes than our own Federal Reserve. Therefore we should be focusing a lot more on the influence that they are having on our markets and our economy,

Sallie Krawcheck

For banks to be global, they need to -- in their estimation -- have a strong securities presence. For companies to have a strong securities presence internationally and globally they have to have a strong presence in the U.S.

The yen is weakening so much versus other currencies. The pace of decline of the yen is causing stress and strain within Asia, where central banks may be showing some concern.

They are back here again, hundreds of them. Swallows barn swallows, tree swallows, banks swallows, rough wing swallows all birds that normally would have gone a long time ago.

There will always be an opportunity for boutique banks, based on the number of new ones starting up all the time. It does not mean boutique banks will go out of existence.

The report was taken with a sigh of relief, and since its release we've seen demand for banks and financials increase.

The report was taken with a sigh of relief, and since its release, we've seen demand for banks and financials increase.