Investment banking operations were easily the most impressive segment of the massive operation which also services commercial and retail banking customers.
Chase may give away free Internet software to its 32m banking customers.
Most Belgian private-banking customers are natives, rather than tax exiles from abroad.
JPMorgan also has some consumer banking customers to answer to this week.
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Those who have been trusted banking customers could be shunned by their long-standing loan officers, regardless of the strength of their business plan.
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He has previously said he wants banking customers to be attracted to Luxembourg by the quality of its banking services, rather than its secrecy.
Indeed it seems the costs of banking outside of the traditional methods are higher, and the alternative for departing banking customers are not much better.
Next month Wells Fargo, a Californian bank that has pioneered online banking, is expected to roll out an online brokerage service for its banking customers.
Banking customers deposit money or withdraw cash at the grocery till, but everything else is handled by the call centres of the grocers' bank partners.
Last year Goldman Sachs formed a Strategic Wealth Advisory Team of a dozen tax and estate lawyers who travel around the country advising investment banking customers.
Companies like Yodlee, Mint, Wesabe and others are empowering banking customers to mashup data from all their accounts and aggregate them in a single integrated view.
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The Dodd-Frank regulations require the CFPB to create a way for banking customers to report their problems with financial products and services, and send them to the appropriate state or federal agency.
It would also be a great way to gain access to China Construction Bank's list of commercial banking customers, to which Bear could sell an array of banking, custody and other services, including underwriting stock offerings.
There must now be a fundamental shake up of banking culture and a return to banking for customers, not bankers.
Of course, it's no secret that HDTV prices in general have been sinking like a stone over the past half year or so, and while the boutiques are banking on customers finally coughing up the extra dough for "knowledge staff" and better all-around service, we're betting that price still remains king in the land of HDTV.
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Bailey says that free banking both misleads customers about how they are really paying for banking services, and also means that banks themselves may not properly understand the costs of the products and services they supply.
E-Trade has been able to establish a competitive edge by offering its customers banking solutions along with their brokerage services.
Such reasoning is even sillier for banking because those customers most desirous of debt financing are frequently the least acceptable risks.
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The inertia of banking and insurance customers is legendary, allowing banks and insurers to adopt new technology at a snail's pace.
It should be stressed that Amazon is one of myriad companies that uses its balance sheet to provide banking services to customers.
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Other banks have been similarly boosted by the surge in takeover activity on global stock markets and by the growth of private client banking for wealthy customers.
Commerce Bank then offers its customers longer banking hours and freedom from annoying fees.
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Wal-Mart's Sam's Club chain of warehouses recently announced a new banking service for its customers.
The bank has avoided Deutsche-style cannibalism: fewer than 10% of Comdirect's new customers are banking clients of Commerzbank.
LBBW, which can provide banking services to retail customers, they have performed poorly during the past five years (see chart).
The bank has also introduced 24-hour phone banking to lure younger customers, and has started to diversify into leasing, insurance and annuities.
The bank has about 1.5 million active accounts and offers a range of banking products to retail customers only, including credit cards, savings, personal loans, general insurance and travel money.
The rest are to be bundled into the bank's private-client and asset-management division, which houses Deutsche Bank 24, the retail-banking arm (which already serves some small firms in any case), private banking (for richer customers) and Deutsche's online broker, called maxblue.
Banks may even be willing to give away WebPad devices featuring pre-installed banking applications to its customers for free, while ISPs are looking at business models such as subsidizing the cost of the device to make the initial purchase price more attractive for consumers, he added.
The branches are stuffed with the latest banking technology designed to aid customers.
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