Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

It is very doubtful the 10-year yield reflects the outlook the central bank will soon change monetary policy. It is hard for investors to buy debt when the economy has strong growth momentum.

It's a good offer, but it's probably as far as Bank of Scotland can go. RBS will probably step in as a kind of white knight.

E. B. White

It's a great cost-cutting story right now. You've got very good management, excellent links into the consumer. And they've been there with the electronic banking for a long, long while. So, that's one that we definitely would be accumulating at these prices.

It's a done deal. The ECB and Bank of England will leave interest rates on hold.

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

It's a real issue for the central bank when they are trying to keep the cash rate up, most of the forward pricing in the interest rate market tends to slip, and it's frustrating.

A capital shortage could be a constraint, but the bank has plans in mind, including a share sale and a subordinate bond sale.

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

It's just like the Bank of Japan is (considering) lifting its zero-interest rate policy. It's not that the TSE will forcibly implement tighter rules.

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,

It seems like they've been heavily involved in investment banking work this year, and you see the benefit of that coming through.

It's extremely difficult to pull off something like this because there are myriad issues. Ocean National Bank was great in connecting all the dots.

It's easier to hire somebody with personality and teach them to be a banker than it is to hire a banker with personality, because they're pretty rare.

John Morrison

It was certainly more family-friendly than a Friday or Saturday (day) game. But where it will really help us is in October and November, after we go off daylight savings. In the past we've had to rent a bank of lights and practice on a half field.

It's definitely having an effect .... Foreigners are likely worried about the Bank of Japan eventually ending its super-easy monetary policy. Also some companies did down downgrade their profit forecasts and there are those investors who now see Japanese stocks as overvalued.

It's common in a bankruptcy to have these charges -- you're cleaning house.

It's clear that the Delphi bankruptcy really precipitated a sense of urgency,

It's a matter of time before GM files for bankruptcy if these issues aren't addressed.

It's a monumental trading error, but fortunately this is a large bank with deep reserves.

It leaves open the door for the Reserve Bank to raise official interest rates sooner rather than later.

It'll be primarily bank stabilization and culvert emplacements in preparation for major work on the road. We have an estimate to fix three-eighths of a mile that would cost $450,000. Of course, the town doesn't have $450,000.

It's broadening out that industry depth that's brought in quality bankers into the place. The stability we've gained from the IPO is good for the people (at Lazard) and good for our clients.

It's critically important that people understand and know what their what their credit score is, ... Even if you're not going to buy a home for a year or two, you need to talk to a mortgage banker you trust. They're going to pull what's called a tri-merged credit report.

It seems a nailed-on certainty that the Bank of England will hold interest rates steady on Thursday,

It's important to note that if you stripped out investment banking activities, our diluted earnings per share were up 21 percent for the full year of 2005 and 28 percent for the fourth quarter of 2004.

It looks a bit disappointing. Net new money is rather small and investment banking doesn't look great.

John W. Snow

It may be harder on some than on others, but overall the banking sector remains healthy and strong,

It's an opportunity to put the bank in front of the employees. We try to cover all areas. It's diversification for the bank.

It's an incremental step to develop its foreign-exchange market and make its currency more transparent. The central bank has been heavily involved in the market and will probably still intervene.

David Caruso

It's like owning a nice piece of real estate. You know it won't go bankrupt and you get a nice cash flow.

It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.

Peter Morgan

It's getting to the point where the Bank of Japan will start moving up rates gradually. There is upward pressure on prices and wages, which is something the Bank of Japan will look at quite carefully.