He has a certain amount of intellectual and emotional distance from the banking world he inhabits.
Asma is a highly educated woman with professional experience in the banking world.
Smith sees a lot of parallels to the investment-banking world he left behind.
The Barings incident sent shock waves through the banking world, and demands were made for immediate reforms to risk management and control.
And the credit crunch seems to have resulted in fewer disasters in the industry than it has in the investment-banking world.
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The ultimate result will be to provide new grist for Al Gore's--and the administration's--friends in the "green" investment banking world and Silicon Valley.
Even PNC Financial Services ( PNC), typically a no-fee advocate in the banking world, has carefully left the door open to debit card fees.
By venturing into the banking world, Virgin is becoming part of an industry that has fallen out of favor with both the public and politicians.
Given the troubles in the banking world and the deluge of hearings, investigations and lawsuits it has triggered he and his colleagues have plenty to be bullish about.
There are now some glimmers of optimism in the investment-banking world, where trading books have already been marked down ferociously and credit exposures to the real economy are more limited.
Zurich, the most populous of the cantons, and the heart of the Swiss banking world, plans to start compulsory English at an early age, maybe even from the first class, the six-plus lot.
JPMorgan would be picking up WaMu's customer deposits and in this rapidly changing banking world everyone is in agreement that the important thing is the capital base with customer deposits being an important part of that.
And, in the crisis of 2007-8, we learned something else about how modern banks can bring down themselves and the rest of us with them: in an interconnected banking world, it is uncertainty that can be the worst poison.
Her lender: a nonprofit group called Mi-Bospo, a part of Women's World Banking, a global nonprofit network of 55 Third World lenders and banks.
"King paid a little bit much, " says Peter Crowley, head of health care banking at CIBC World Markets.
They can kick JPMorgan Chase around all they want but its world banking franchise is second to none.
Investing heavily in technology--at one-tenth the cost of foreign banks, he claims--ICICI could offer First World banking services at Indian prices.
"Any war-torn country should look to Bosnia as a role model, " says Nancy Barry, president of Women's World Banking in New York.
Wyllie's award-winning play about the iniquities of the world banking system, A Day Down a Goldmine, was produced several times throughout the 1980s.
Mr Reinfeldt said that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, as was persuading the G20 to try and end the "bonus culture" in world banking.
The world banking system is inherently fragile because the failure of one bank leads to contagion that can cause the failure of other banks and of the system itself.
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Meanwhile, as banking around the world has reverted to becoming more national and less international again, the City - as the world's most open and global financial centre - has suffered.
But whatever Mr Leutwiler's misgivings, international banking solidarity had to be preserved, and nothing was more solid in the world of banking than Switzerland.
Insofar as the world depends on China's growth, the state of the Chinese banking system is the world's problem.
With the end to easy money in 2008, banking sectors around the world were over-levered and under-capitalized.
Bringing the developer world into banking could clearly be the kind of innovation accelerator that banks badly need.
This is partly because banking in the rich world has become more politicised.
Fees and surcharges seem to be an unavoidable part of living in a world where banking is big business.
Banks had a tremendous move in the past week or so as central banking measures solidify the world economy.
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