Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.
I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.
The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.
It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.
I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
