Some board members are keen on a European investment-banking tie-up, perhaps with Banque Nationale de Paris, which recently took control of a rival French bank, Paribas, and which has a longstanding alliance (and small cross-shareholding) with Dresdner.
In Germany, three-quarters of the banking industry is made up of public-sector savings banks and co-operative banks.
Trouble is, too many companies give stuff away, banking on the up-sell later--and then never get paid.
The big issues in Europe -- establishing a banking union, shoring up Spain, agreeing on a new seven-year European Union budget and, last but by no means least, keeping Greece in the eurozone -- are in the hands of politicians, and not of the ECB.
The new parliamentary inquiry into banking - if it is set up - will have the job of investigating the truth.
And we have also sought to build a new culture of accountability that was lacking across the banking sector in the run-up to the crisis.
The ESM is prohibited from making direct capital injections into banks and Germany has made clear there is no question of this changing until the euro-zone banking union is up and running.
The subliminal message from their questioning of key witnesses seems to be that they will recommend some pretty robust measures to clean up British banking - because they are not convinced that enough has been done after scandals over the mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) and interest swaps to address the problem of serious misconduct.
Once the proposals are formally agreed it will start the biggest shake-up of the banking system since the global financial crisis.
Indeed, Minitel is now proving a barrier to the take-up of Internet banking.
New York state's attorney-general accused the stockbroker of a conflict of interest in recommending shares that it slighted in private in order to pick up investment-banking business.
And with these credit channels now blocked up, investment-banking activities such as helping companies to issue debt and equity are a crucial way of channelling savings to businesses with good ideas.
Since the global banking crisis of 2008, there have been four attempts by the Spanish government - two by the current one, two by its predecessor - to shore up a banking system seriously weakened by reckless property and construction loans.
The Nigerian government is treading a well worn path, with many governments having set up similar government-backed "bad" banks to help clean up their banking systems.
With SeaWorld firmly in its tentacles, Goldman is sucking up millions in investment-banking fees.
Since then there has been much speculation that part or all of the investment-banking operation, NatWest Markets, is up for sale.
The Dow is already up 15% this year, despite a congressional battle over the federal deficit and a banking crisis in Cyprus that threatened a flare-up in the euro zone's continuing debt woes.
Both said that monetary and fiscal authorities should outline how they will step back from the rev-it-up policies since the global banking crisis, in order to achieve sustained, noninflationary growth (i.e. no bubbles).
Barclays might find it easier to split up and move its investment-banking operation to New York.
Unlike Morgan, Goldman is not rushing into high-street banking, though it plans to set up an internet bank to help gather deposits.
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The consequence of this approach is that when interest margins rise for corporate borrowers, as they did in late 2008, the gross value-added of the banking sector appears to go up.
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At Goldman Sachs, BofA and Citigroup, revenues from fixed income, currency and commodity trading, the main contributors to investment-banking profits over the past decade, were up to a third lower than a year ago.
We now know there was at least one big problem with this narrow approach: it encouraged the Bank of England to ignore a lot of other important stuff such as rising asset prices and the build-up of huge debts within the banking system, which weren't causing inflation but turned out to pose a massive threat to our economic stability.
As a result, the banking system wound up with far more exposure to mortgage-backed securities than would have resulted from market processes.
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Cambodian tycoon Kith Meng, who runs banking-to-telecoms conglomerate Royal Group, is teaming up with Philippine Airlines (PAL) to launch a new carrier later this year.
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This year, Southeast Asia has accounted for 17% of revenue in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan in core investment banking, up from 15% for all of last year.
It also bulked up its asset-management and private-banking arms, run by Jacques d'Estais (who used to head the investment bank).
First of all, its banking system had not quite been caught up in the free-market craziness that preceded the crash, so the "fundamentals" were OK in its financial system.
Whereas the European Commission has already ordered a sell-off of more than 600 branches - meaning around 4.6% of the personal banking market - Sir John Vickers now says that should be pushed up to 6%.
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