511 Quotes About Banks

The U.S. stock market is pricing in a hard landing, an acceleration of inflation and a Fed that may or may not come to the rescue. Part of that message is emanating from the bond market and part of it is coming from some thick smoke signals that the banks are sending.

But that cycle is over. The banks are going to get squeezed.

The large U.S. investment banks are tremendously strong because they have the strongest capital market of the world as their home territory,

We have heard of banks being slow, but we've had this pilot going for some time and we've not had any real problems. We've heard the stories but we haven't experienced it yet.

Banks are increasingly monitoring profitability. If you have borrowed a lot of money or have tens of thousands of dollars in a money market account, they won't want to lose you.

This isn't a headquarters city for banks anymore. Decisions for the largest banks are now made out of market, when before it was all handled locally.

Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.

The Korean banks' intrinsic value has improved since the crisis, but still substantially below the global average. More needs to be done, and one way is to have strong foreign banks have a stronger controlling presence because it changes the whole competitive dynamics.

Banks have become society's new pushers, grooming money addicts.