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.
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.
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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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.
Bringing the developer world into banking could clearly be the kind of innovation accelerator that banks badly need.
Fees and surcharges seem to be an unavoidable part of living in a world where banking is big business.
But the world of banking is changing.
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And with the launch of Sony's PlayStation Home -- an online world for the games console -- this autumn, it seems the big players in the entertainment world are banking on virtual realms being part of the future, too.
He has a certain amount of intellectual and emotional distance from the banking world he inhabits.
Jim Bruene does a terrific job of showing how the world of online banking is actually interesting.
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An obvious target for those leading the fight against terrorist financing is the world of offshore banking.
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Read how they went from the world of investment banking to building out a bi-coastal family office operation.
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 tight-knit world of central banking will keep a close watch on Scandinavia.
The Barings incident sent shock waves through the banking world, and demands were made for immediate reforms to risk management and control.
The deal speaks volumes about how fast the world's banking industry is changing.
The data also suggest that something very strange has been going on in the exciting, wonderful world of central banking.
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After graduating from the Harvard Business School, I went to New York City and entered the staid world of investment banking.
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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His glamor and power no doubt inspired many young men to enter the world of investment banking over the last two decades.
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.
Participants in the world of standards do sometimes approach their work with an intensity more often associated with medieval theological disputes than the world of modern banking.
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