The question of who succeeds Mr Mori, for instance, is crucial to the battle over banking policy.
When the Wall Streeters took over banking business, they snuffed out George Bailey.
Yet the scale of the change sweeping over banking should not be minimised.
Chancellor Alistair Darling has also entered the recent row over banking bonuses, saying on Sunday that RBS should not reward its staff with excessive bonuses.
In the coming months, Levin and subcommittee ranking member Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) are expected to work closely with the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over banking legislation, to craft a bill that provides more protection to consumers.
They always insist that there is nothing intrinsically riskier about investment banking over retail banking.
All of which will result in an absolute mountain of data being generated over mobile banking channels.
Mark Field, a Conservative MP whose constituency includes the City of London, also warned of the dangers of uncertainty hanging over the banking sector.
The tests are a reminder of how the government has expanded its power over the banking industry, and how much has changed because of it.
The survey suggested that serious worries remain over the banking, insurance and car industries, but that expectations were not as bleak as a month earlier.
For a while though, it will seem confusing for thousands of customers at Lloyds and RBS, as they wonder who will take over their banking business.
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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"We should use the opportunity of the Treaty changes - perhaps over the banking union - to convene an inter-governmental conference in which we bring Britain's membership in line with what people want, " he said.
Of course, while giving up national control over the banking system will be more acceptable for voters than giving up the right to set fiscal policy, national governments will still find this hard to swallow.
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And at the heart of it is a powerful idea - that your mobile phone number can become the key to your bank account without you having to hand over your banking details to anyone who wants to pay you.
The current environment of sluggish growth, government austerity and worries over the European banking sector has likely influenced the dramatic rise in money supply over the past 18 months.
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And it might help explain why Lloyds Banking Group favoured Co-op over the NBNK new banking investment vehicle - the other shortlisted contender - as the latter wouldn't have reached the levels sought by Vickers' recommendations.
As a result of the crunch, HBOS was taken over by Lloyds Banking Group.
After so much genuine drama in banking over the past two years, the commotion about this week's announcements was contrived.
His glamor and power no doubt inspired many young men to enter the world of investment banking over the last two decades.
Back then, as central banks all over flooded the banking system with cash, the Fed wanted banks to step up to the window and keep money flowing.
He said that, as an independent country, Scotland would have the "advantages of oil but the disadvantages of an over-extended banking system", while other costs like pensions and benefits would come into play.
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Bank of America has shelved plans for new fees that could have hit at least 10 million customers by the end of this year, skirting a potential replay of a 2011 uproar over consumer-banking charges.
As I have pointed out before, where a national central bank presides over one national banking system, you can draw a distinction between propping up solvent - but illiquid - banks - and propping up governments.
Most traders who expect to see higher prices said people are seeking a safe-haven in the fresh concerns over the European banking system and until the situation there is seen as less dire, gold will find support.
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Or will the over-brokered investment banking market make a comeback in the next six years?
The outgoing chief executive, Peter Marks, says the Co-op will develop its banking operation over the long term.
But a banking transaction over the internet costs a mere 1% of an over-the-counter transaction at a branch.
Anglo Irish bank was nationalised in 2009 and its affairs were taken over by the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation (IBRC).
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