For all its flaws, the old bank model resolved the incentives in a simple way.
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"This is supposed to be a happy day, but we're angry, " said Michaelis Angelous, a 26-year-old bank worker.
There are train loads of 55-year-old bank vice-presidents who ain't coming back along with factory workers, carpenters and house painters.
That way, if the brokerage's sweet deal goes away, they can simply roll the money back into their old bank account.
"Punishment for my sins, " says the charming, 69-year-old bank chairman, a diminutive paterfamilias almost lost in a vast lemon-tinted office near the stock exchange.
Vittorio Grilli was briefed by Mr Draghi ahead of a special parliamentary hearing on Tuesday concerning the derivatives scandal emerging at the 500-year-old bank.
One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
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The rest of it from the beach forward was out--that was the old bank building and it actually withstood more than it--now just the vault is left, and it's just unbelievable.
Whether it is the 25-year-old freelancer with a pre-existing condition who can't purchase insurance in the individual market, the 20-year-old line cook who doesn't receive insurance through her job or the 28-year-old bank employee who is insured but is worried about the rising costs of premiums, young Americans experience the deficiencies of our health care system on a daily basis.
Today the assets include 56% of the National Investment Bank of Mongolia, which he started in 2006 after buying the license of an old Russian bank, and brokerage firm National Securities.
The wealthy money man James Rogers Jr. says our 98-year-old central bank is doomed, one reason he likes to own commodities.
The New York Post reports that the 141-year-old investment bank is also surveying how much its existing clients trust the firm.
One of the most spectacular renovations is of the old Ottoman Bank building, near the port of Karakoy just under the tower.
In the case of the old London Bank building, the local council basically gave it to new owners on condition they restore it.
On the short list of likely bidders for the 158-year-old investment bank are Britain's Barclays, France's BNP Paribas, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Charlotte, N.
The 116-year-old central bank had seemed above reproach -- until March 11, when dozens of grim-faced prosecutors marched to its Tokyo headquarters to examine stacks of documents.
As a matter of fact, whether you analyse the cases of Enron, the old Barings Bank, Lehman or the Royal Bank of Scotland, similar conclusions would be drawn.
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The cavernous, granite-columned old Mellon bank branch in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh epitomizes the lender that nurtured Alcoa, Gulf Oil and U.S. Steel in the Old Economy's heyday.
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Few realize that this 275-year-old Scottish bank, a nonentity on the world stage just a few years ago, is now bigger by this measure than such household names as J.
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
As securities and markets have steadily taken the place of old-style bank managers, the number of potential investors has grown and the cost of capital has fallen.
The situation was little different from an old-fashioned bank run.
The 150-year-old global investment bank built its name on trading bonds, but recently it has shifted its focus overseas to lucrative businesses such as stock trading and advising companies on mergers.
To jump-start the division, Mr Gorman has hired Greg Fleming, a former president of Merrill Lynch, whose past achievements include helping to sell his old firm to Bank of America for far more than anyone else would have paid.
That said, plenty of big, ailing companies are still being kept alive through old-style, bank-led rescues.
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