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Another Tick For Our Banks ... The IMF also reckons Australia's big four banks are so well capitalised that they could withstand a surge in home loans going bad and still maintain their capital levels at the minimum required by regulators....

Is My Money Safe? On The Soundness Of Our Banks ... Despite a very chequered history of mismanagement, corruption, false promises and representations, delusions and behavioural inconsistency – banks still succeed to motivate us to give them our money... Partly it is the sophistication of the banks in marketing and promoting themselves and their products... Glossy brochures, professional computer and video presentations and vast, shrine-like, real estate complexes all serve to enhance the image of the banks as the temples of the new religion of money...

BVI Banks: Secrecy Is A Fundamental Cornerstone Of BVI Banking ... Account holders are just charged with only a few thousand dollars every year for the license fees of banks...

A Short History Of Piggy Banks ... To satisfy my curiosity I did some piggy bank research and have learned some interesting things and thought I would share them with you. As you well know, many, particularly ceramic, piggy banks do not have an opening to remove the money...

Wholesale Banking - Banking For Merchant Banks And Other Financial Institutions ... This approach makes it more attractive for a company to place all their financial matters with a single institution rather than spreading them out into different banks and agencies for each banking service that the business needs in order to function....

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals ..., had ... attained a kind of immortality. You couldn’t kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder; assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory.
—William Gibson (b. 1948)

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure; and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)