Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is very hard for land-based banks to start an online-only bank.

It's an interesting avenue. It's just a smaller niche than other things banks are doing.

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

Jack Layton

They're about dimes and dollars. A few dimes to you in tax cuts, many, many dollars to banks and oil companies.

They're not robbing banks because they got laid off from their jobs at General Motors.

Tom Green

There's a very thin market and the banks seem to be taking their toll on the market.

There's a trend now for central banks in the region to raise rates. Thailand has been raising rates since last year and it has served them well.

There's a threshold, and once you cross it, you're really not a credit union in the true sense of the word. After you've grown to be about a billion dollars or $5 billion, and you're offering everything from life insurance to stock brokerage to the full range of financial products ---- perhaps some community banks in the market don't even offer ---- it seems the tax exemption they enjoy is a bit misplaced.

There is the discussion about central banks and their involvement -- many think a dollar bounce takes something away from auctions.

It's a weak market like this, it's easy to take negative news to sell, such as with the banks today.

It's a country developing very fast and it deserves to have low credit spreads. Investors like myself with pension funds and central banks will just buy into any weakness.

Clive Anderson

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

We primarily involve ourselves in the recovery of collateral on behalf of banks and we are expanding by getting involved in matrimonial and separation disputes. We ensure that the matter is resolved and we move on.

As has been reported, lending competition is heating up. It seems the market is gradually coming to doubt if all banks have bright earnings outlooks from an expected end to quantitative easing.

Asia-Pacific markets have reached our index target, but we see no imminent threat to the outlook. Can the rally continue? In the short-term we believe so, particularly if the major central banks acquiesce.

The business for investment banks has been performing very well on most sides, and I want to hear what they to say on future profit.

Banks are dealing with a lot of back-room processing when they say it takes several days or so.

Banks are centralizing lots of customer service stuff, which gives you the economies of scale, and a better, more consistent process as well. That improves customer retention.

Banks are between a rock and a hard place.

Keith Baker

Banks are a proxy for a rising economy.

Banks are a necessary evil. I'm not sure how many people are going to want us closer to them.

Banks are also trying to test their credibility in the market after having not issued bonds or equities for a long while.

Banks and property stocks still have room for upside following strong interest in these stocks Friday. Easing interest rate worries and mortgage cuts offered by banks should help support sentiment for the sector.

Mark Zuckerberg

Banks and lenders just need to be more responsible about whom they give credit cards to.

Banks and brokerages are leading the market higher.

Banks will not only have increased losses, but reduced revenue as well. For some customers, the banks will have to reduce interest payments in order to keep them from defaulting. There's a bit of uncertainty because it's hard to predict human behavior.

Banks want to stay clear of risky investments, like those that could be tied up in court. They also are sensitive to the public they serve and don't want their parking lots ringed with pickets.

Banks make up the bulk of the Chinese financial system. The problem is that there are too few insurance companies and mutual funds to offer the variety of products, services and risk profiles the economy needs to flourish.

Banks have various sources of earnings. If a bank is large enough to have international operations, it has evolved enough diversification to counteract those losses.

Banks have to go through a lot of back office reengineering in order to go digital.

Banks have risks of exposure limits, and they have portfolio targets,

Banks have laid off so many people, and now they're getting hit with pretty heavy volumes. At end of the day, there's a labor bottleneck.

Banks have been careful not to put too much on the end-user. Look at PIN codes. We had four digits. People in the data-security world said that four digits are not secure because they are easily compromised by random number generators, and users would probably use years and birthdays. Then why did banks do that? Because four digits is the least common denominator that the public won't have to write down.