Barclays might find it easier to split up and move its investment-banking operation to New York.
The outgoing chief executive, Peter Marks, says the Co-op will develop its banking operation over the long term.
Wells Fargo lacks a significant investment banking operation, which Wachovia brings, along with a significant retail brokerage operation.
Amex has long had a banking operation, which caters for the very well-to-do.
Gruebel has poured resources into the investment banking operation at the same time that some in Switzerland disapprove of it.
In 2009, ING said it was going to sell its insurance business in order to focus on its banking operation.
One solution: take over a successful operation, which will bring with it the hard-to-duplicate customer relationships that underpin any banking operation.
Since then there has been much speculation that part or all of the investment-banking operation, NatWest Markets, is up for sale.
Then, spin off the consumer banking operation into a separate stand-alone business.
Ermotti has the benefit of being the rescue-CEO for UBS as he sets to turn it into a less risky, more boring banking operation.
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But bank analyst Dick Bove speculates whether Walmart is getting away with running what looks to be a banking operation but without all the banking regulations.
Allianz and its shareholders are faced with the prospect of a shrinking banking operation, at any rate in relation to the rest of the insurance group (see chart).
Its chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, said the bank might be ready to return to the private sector in 2014, following a huge restructuring programme that includes winding down the investment banking operation.
In November Mr Rampl reshuffled his board, appointing Johann Berger to take over corporate banking and property, and Christine Licci, former head of Citigroup's German retail-banking operation, to revamp the retail business.
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Postbank is reputed to have the biggest and best retail-banking operation in Germany, but most of its 11m account holders are unlikely to want the additional, fancy services touted as a source of Postbank's future growth.
So there would be a big new incentive for banks to deploy more of their capital in retail banking, or the operation perceived as more vital to the UK's prosperity.
Investment banking operations were easily the most impressive segment of the massive operation which also services commercial and retail banking customers.
Then he shredded the firm's investment banking unit, another moneylosing operation only about 30 out of 300 investment bankers remain.
Then he decimated the firm's investment banking unit, another moneylosing operation.
He said they were also discussing co-operation in the banking and energy sectors, adding that any deal to solve the island's debt crisis should also be in Russia's interests.
"Without the full co-operation of the banking sector, the government's big idea is impractical, " Stuart Cliffe director of the National Association of Bank and Insurance Customers (NABIC) told BBC News Online.
Aon's reinsurance operation includes investment banking products.
The quest for an instant market base on which to build motivates buyouts of consumer banking businesses like Chase's credit-card operation in Singapore.
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At the time, it had a significant brokerage operation but did not have the research or investment-banking conflicts of interest that saddled full-service firms.
"It would not be appropriate for Lloyds to think about investment banking when they have a very large U.K. domestic operation to get back on track and make profitable, " he said, adding that if investors wanted to put their money in a British lender with investment banking exposure, they could just invest in Barclays.
And there is much more to be done, it suggests, involving cross-border banking, disclosure requirements, indices of systemic risk and international co-operation.
It's not any high-class financial operation, it's a technical improvement, which sure has changed banking.
For the world's leading central banks, the action is all in "unconventional measures" to support the economy and the banking system: like the UK's latest round of quantitative easing, or "operation twist" by the US Federal Reserve.
"A special operation is in progress in Cyprus, and its goal is far from saving the economy or the banking system, " the paper says.
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