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As one banker says, "I don't want to be the only idiot who has to turn up to work if the office number wins. "

Even a Jerusalem blue ID holder marrying a West Banker will not be permitted to have her spouse live with her in Jerusalem.

A few months ago a senior European central banker confessed that policymakers felt as if they were fighting a financial war.

She told me she had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker.

He turned to the banker, the only one of that black, uneasy, stoop-shouldered group who seemed enough of an individual to be addressed.

You are a banker. If the money system collapses, you and your bank are out of business.

And why would the CEO of any financial institution big enough to be a significant trader decide to be "just" a traditional banker?

Guo: Is that gambling house banker does, he thought you "tree-fern 2salol double tree" the matter told us.

At a recent dinner party I was asked what I did and I said I was an investment banker.

This summer a London-based banker revealed to me that he was trying to purchase flats in Singapore and Zurich.

In October, I sat down in Nanjing with a senior banker for one of China's 'Big Four' state banks.

The boss then comments on the banker's stellar performance, but says 2007 has been a difficult year for the bank and that times are tight.

I have been averaging less sleep than I was as a Wall Street investment banker, and that was not much.

'To be honest, I've never been convinced that there was such a person as Osama bin Laden, ' said Osama al-Obeid, a Saudi banker.

The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

without doubt , " said the banker with a faint smile . he was a jew from frankfort" .

"BP is desperate to get its hands on the field, but it has some serious competition, " said a banker close to one of the three oil majors.

You'd better get out of the bakery right away and go into the oil business or become a banker.

He would see the madness in investors' eyes. . . and palsied hands of his central banker cronies.

In his time its founder, Derek Browne, who did not shine at school, has been an international athlete and an investment banker.

But America is still capable of putting two fingers up to its banker, when the mood takes it.

He was shaking her hand before I could finish the introduction. I noted that he was not wearing any of his Banker Costumes.

But was there ever a depositor who thought he was turning his money over to the banker so he could "do as he pleases" with it?

This month's anti-banker protests in London initially found a friendly base for their tent city at Saint Paul's cathedral.

In one, a banker told an S&P executive he would spell her name correctly only when she did what he asked her to do.

he said. He then handed the banker the money to pay his loan off.

Yet despite much speechifying from banker-bashing politicians, such views do not seem to have taken hold.

"This is going to be pretty serious for Goldman as time goes on, " said the banker, who did not want to be identified.

At that point, every banker would ask himself, if I do the right thing and report my suspicions, how much will that cost me in fees?

The sense of urgency is heightened by the fact that the ideal private banker of today is strikingly different from his predecessor.

Mr Geithner tends to "smell" his way through situations, a senior central banker says.

'My daughter said, 'You used to be a banker and now you're a cab driver, ' he says. 'I said, 'No. I'm the owner of a transportation service.

it became, as one banker put it, a bit like a rail company being told it had to know everyone on its trains.

Well you can't just take the money. You have to ask the bank for money. And I'm the banker.

All those people, all that money sloshing back and forth, and, perhaps most beguiling, all that growth: it is enough to make a banker swoon.

Gradually the First Bank of the United States evolved into a sort of banker's bank, gaining the power to police lesser commercial banks.

Through your company bank in London . The bank can issue a banker's check drawn on their correspondent here in Tokyo .

However, he did not discouraged, to continue to call on a banker for help.

from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness.

All this, to boot, at the bank heralded as equity-derivatives house of the year by the Banker magazine in 2007.

The former investment banker has not been indolent: his department has been a factory for acronyms since the crisis began.

It is now impossible to tell an espresso19-sipping artist from a cappuccino20-gulping banker, but it isn't just a matter of style.

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However, a senior Goldman banker told a UK parliamentary committee last week that the bank should have been more transparent.

He was a banker; when by chance he fell into a doze at day-break, the cobbler awoke him with his song.

He uses his imagination to describe his mother's feelings as a banker's wife after years cloistered in a netherworld.

"The risk is disseminated, but trying to re-aggregate it becomes an almost impossible task, " says one senior investment banker.

I mean, who really wants to talk Sharpe ratios [for measuring risk-adjusted performance] all day long, except the banker.

It must be very difficult for you as a banker to try to satisfy your customers during periods like this .

In the Banker's top 1000 ranking in July 2004, the Bank was No. 344 among the 500 largest banks around the globe.

"If you think about the issues related with Bumi, it is risky, " said an investment banker familiar with the company.

As Clinton likes to say, "When was the last time you got tough on your banker? "

His comments are among the clearest statements of the risk of a credit squeeze from a banker in Europe's largest economy.

Three decades ago, she was a cabin attendant and union official, the mother of two sons and married to a banker.

The central banker's task is to unscramble price signals distorted by panic, not to protect the markets from a signal that they do not like.

The three months ended in June were not easy ones for a banker trying to outperform the year-ago quarter's results.

Her father, Harold Beauchamp, was a banker and her mother, Annie Burnell Dyer, was of genteel origins.

"He might have defected but is lying low, " said a banker who knows him.

Mervyn King, the banker adds, had a bad crisis and now has "no idea" what he is doing.

Hatred of the banker or broker is always just under the surface, as we have long explained.

a banker must , you know , be a slave to his promise .

Its chairman, Xiang Junbo, a war hero before he was a banker, has worked hard to turn it around in recent years.

Her tone changed to one of obsequious solemnity as she turned to the banker: "The parlor is ready, Mr. Phelps. "

When by chance he falls into a doze at daybreak, the tailor wakes him with his song. The banker complains.

He would be glad to make suit to the banker's daughter, but does not receive much encouragement.

That means India is without an old Wall Street staple: Women who feel they must act like the stereotypical male banker to advance.

But another technology banker who declined to be named said it might be hard for private equity firms to justify such investments.

Dad had an appointment with a Canadian businessman, who was an banker.

Win network card technology in pushing Pai Pai, must be one to one, i. e. only a leisure family and a banker.

In the Woods, the Tortoise was appointed the banker and the Hare worked as a stockbroker after the famous race between them was over.

He looked like an investment banker: middle-aged, clean-cut, wearing an expensive-looking gray suit.

To that end, one of my friends on the West Coast has begun serving as personal banker to his son.

When Ross asked Lohan what income he had earned as an investment banker before going to prison, he was unable to give a specific answer.

As a senior banker, he also had access to confidential information about the proposed takeover, said the SFC.

They shelved the pork-packer's son and the banker's son, and sat down to consider the Governor's son and the son of the Congressman.

Ser Axell, the Braavosi banker, and the rest of her party followed, like so many ducklings done up in wool and fur.

The uptick in recruitment follows more than a year of public furor over banker pay and government efforts to restrict Wall Street pay.

Her mother was Edna Scotton, a touring actress, and her father was Teddy, a "numbers banker" in the gambling business.

"We're going to have to pay people differently in different parts of the world, " said one top US banker.

She had a balance at her banker's which would have made her beloved anywhere.

keep borrowing money from your banker to against your banker. wow, that sounds logical to me. a very effective long term plan.

The great financier and banker was the prototype for all the Wall Street barons who followed.

It was carried on under primitive conditions and with crude methods that would make a Western banker shudder.

And as we were eating, I had the distinct feeling that I was back in the city of London, having lunch with a fellow banker or an economist.

One banker said he would rather eat nuclear waste than invest in Russia again.

Bartle Bull, a banker, sees a chance to pay "rock-bottom" prices for a piece of "one of the richest economies in the world. "

If I were a banker, I would be laughing discreetly at the bumbling and misdirected efforts of governments to change my behaviour.

But for now, the dapper 31-year-old Harvard graduate and former Goldman Sachs banker is not sitting on his hands.

I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn.

In another case, a banker in southern Guangdong province bribed local police to arrest an auditor evaluating the bank branch's books.

the banker , his face blood - red , was suffering from little convulsive twitchings of the chin , as though he had a stoppage in his throat.

The police explode a bombshell when they arrested the old banker for stealing money from the bank.

Indeed, Mr King is not the only central banker to be under attack.

any draft payable on demand drawn by a banker upon himself, whether payable at the heAD office or some other office of his bank.

Uber tech investment banker Frank Quattrone recently cited Huawei as one of the industry's new leaders in remarks to a conference crowd.

"It takes all of these groups -- Japanese, Koreans, Chinese -- a long time to do their due diligence, " said the banker.

"Sebi is trying to make these changes more benign and gentle, " said one banker.

I never thought I should see the day when a distinguished Chinese banker was appointed one of my guardians.

The money for this, says an experienced banker, often comes from a "pre-IPO" offering to a small group of investors.

Calling a banker a "rodent" or "snake" , in other words, may no longer be just a term of abuse.

As America's largest banker, China is worried about America's ability to pay for the kind of reforms Mr Obama is advancing.

Tatsuo Horita , a banker from Japan , is visiting with an officer of the Bank of England .

The next generation Bruce Wasserstein wants to run a hedge fund, not be a banker.

The Bank will BE glad to remit your repayments to the hire-purchase company by monthly Banker's Order.

He however does not want to go through the ups and downs, as well as the stressful life of a big power executive or banker.

"A bonus has completely lost its value, because you can't live on basic pay in London, " maintains one prominent UK banker.

I fear he will track down Banker, male, 49 pretty quickly, given that you are one of the only surviving non-cronies on his top team.

If your banker is skeptical about lending you money for this business opportunity, that might be a red flag.

He didn't know much about the markets, but thought he could make a splash with even a few days spent publicly questioning a fat cat banker.

He was not the only central banker to come to this realisation, or even the first.

It's been a good 3 years since the sordid tale of our decline started leaking out, and not one banker has been persecuted.

That is undeniably true: he has a degree in electrical engineering, a PhD in finance and was an investment banker and a hedge fund manager.

I also know that the reader's brother -in -law banker would be very happy to find this book in his Christmas stocking .

But it remains fragile; or, as one banker puts it, in a state of "orderly chaos" .

I did not work only a few hours each day -- no banker's hours for me.

In these times, such w ords from any banker might be enough to cause a little concern.

The Banker has attempted to leave no stone unturned in search of the best way to run a bank at this, a watershed time for the industry.

The banker complained sadly that Providence had not made sleep a saleable commodity, like edibles or drinkables.

The buyer, who was a buyer of bristles, instructed his banker to open an irrevocable credit against the usual documents.

He is a former IMF and World Bank official and investment banker who has spent much of his life in the United States.

'Byron is the rare investment banker who puts himself in his client's shoes, ' Mr. Buffett wrote in his 2008 letter to investors.

GENEVA (Reuters) - For a private banker in search of a client, rich is just not rich enough any more.

You just left your longtime job as a banker for Goldman Sachs in London, where you live. What did you do there, exactly?

Some political pundits are concerned that by becoming America's banker, China could exercise significant influence over the U. S.

Mr Parsons was once a banker, since he ran the aptly named Dime for a while, but it hardly stacks up against Citi.

She quit as bad grades piled up; moved west; married, divorced and remarried; raised three children; worked as a banker and a secretary.

Last year he was the first western central banker to call for the use of a leverage ratio to help monitor bank capital levels .

The son of a prominent Methodist industrialist, Soong graduated from Harvard University and quickly rose in the financial world as a banker.

A week ago, she boarded a plane to Florida to spend the weekend with a 30-something banker she met on SugarDaddie. com.

Try as hard as the banker did to get me to comprehend the beautiful simplicities of the whole process, I remained baffled.

Convinced she had burned her boats, she told the employment agency that she had found the banker rude and pompous.

The bank will pay this automatically, by banker's order (also called standing order) or direct debit.

"If you buy in a senior investment banker or manager you will have to pay something similar to what they could get in the outside world. "

In the eastern state of Jharkhand, a banker was more enthusiastic about the NREGA.

The country "is now becoming the land of scams" , says one senior Indian banker. "The amounts involved are frightening. "

The investment banker rolled his eyes after each response, clearly agitated by the collective lack of imagination.

But few believe the targets laid out in Project Merlin will be reached, with one banker describing the idea as "completely barking mad" .

The drawee may accept this bill payable at any bank, banker or trust company in the United States which he may designate.

The transactions are recorded over the mobile phone and the banker-on-wheels returns to the local bank branch with the money.

Mr Mack was the investment banker's investment banker: a charismatic former bond salesman driven by instinct as well as analysis.

The recent vandalism of the home of Sir Fred Goodwin, a failed banker and symbol of greedy incompetence, may be a taste of things to come.

His father, a banker, was later the director of the Bank of China and the governor of the Central Bank of China.

Monsieur, " replied the banker, drawing himself up with a haughty air, " the extent of my resources HAS never yet been questioned.

Nor did the British government co-ordinate with others, when it produced its own, crowd-pleasing banker tax.

So 12 years ago, I was trying to be an investment banker in New York.

"The market is gobsmacked that BofA could have done this without mandating Merrill, " a banker at a rival house said.

Chastise the banker who bankers after his bonus, but also pity him for he is looking for his primary measure of self-worth to be restored.

The veteran banker has temporarily renounced his salary as he tries to clean up the mess.

A few weeks ago I was taken out for a drink by a Wall Street banker.

The Banker's awards continue to be the premier industry competition for recognition in banking. Congratulations to all our winners.

A crowd, swelled by television crews, engulfed Statue Square, an adjacent plaza dominated by a bronze likeness of a dour Victorian banker.

She was the daughter of a prosperous banker.

win so much that even the banker runs out of money.

Mr Milner " had the first mover advantage" , says a banker who worked with him .

"Why, it only took you five minutes to do it, " said the banker.

And trial begins in the decades old murder of an Italian financier whose close Vatican ties earned him a nickname of "God's banker" .

The bank eventually tapped Vikram Pandit, an investment banker who had joined Citi just five months earlier.

Mr Lanchester's short book will not add much to the knowledge of your average hedge-fund manager and central banker.

Smart as they come. Used to be a banker on the outside.

In a fairly common exchange, a senior international banker rolls his eyes when asked about its prospects.

A best-selling book by a former banker promoted genetic theories of intelligence and said that Muslims were "dumbing down" society.

Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Finance. By William Rhodes.

Yet it is not clear whether the skills of a central banker are those needed by a Treasury Secretary.

The banker laughed disagreeably and began trimming his nails with a pearl - handled pocketknife .

On all other measures these firms are big enough to make a Wall Street banker reconsider his status in the universe.

Importers are usually advised to consult with an international banker before negotiating the purchase contract in the above case.

"You couldn't meet Madoff, " one banker told the Wall Street Journal. "He was like a pop star. "

"It is all about finding the right time, " said one banker.

For a large company, an investment banker agrees to guarantee the purchase of a new stock issue at a set price.

The principal demand of the executives, the newspaper suggested, would be that governments "stop banker-bashing. "

She had a balance at her banker's which would have her beloved anywhere.

However, the Financial Times has confirmed the banker was Mr Liechti, who did not return calls yesterday.

If senior investment banker Lee Zhang ever tires of the day job, he could consider re- training as an advertising salesman.

Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, was meant to be anticipating his "central banker of the century" award, and enjoying a well-earned rest.

A good banker is able to tap the resources within the organization to assist his clients.

Kazakhstan's central banker, Grigori Marchenko, had been seen as a third candidate for the post.

And the British government has commissioned former banker Lord Davis to produce recommendations for change next year.

In the U. S. , despite much discussion of banker bonuses, there have been no moves to explicitly limit cash bonuses.

'It is going to be presented as a consensus, not a victory and also a step forward in the G-20, ' a G-20 central banker said.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's description of how he spends his time as a banker, in an interview with the London Times.

A quick nod from me, a few clicks from the banker, and suddenly my money was safe.

You think it's bad to be an investment banker.

A couple of years ago, an investment banker berated me for using the word "murky" to describe the world of structured finance.

As one banker ominously puts it: "you are getting further along the train tracks towards the buffers. "

Mr. Sanchez, the South Carolina banker, is worried even though his bank is profitable again after suffering losses for more than two years.

His banker son, Henry, continued the work, as they all did, carrying their Clapham light across the empire.

Or perhaps entering a niche bank is simply a way for a banker who is a crack business head to be able to run an entire bank.

"The government is in effect asking private banks to lend it money at a subsidised rate, " moans one banker. "But we have no other option. "

The rise of his 47-year-old ex-banker son within the ranks of the ruling party, however, has become a symbol of his abuse of power.

With his research on the Great Depression and inflation targeting, he seems almost freakishly suited to the role of crisis central banker.

As one western banker in China says: "You have to be in this market. You can't afford to stay out of it. "

One Tuesday morning, the local grocer has refused to extend him any more credit, and his banker has long since refused to return his calls.

have all of your documents ready , including your business plan and pro forma , and speak to your banker about all available options.

CONSISTENCY may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it is an excellent quality in a central banker.

A German banker has been sent to prison for two years and 10 months. Because he was stealing money from rich clients to help poor ones.

Mr. Tanaka and the American banker continue their discussion of the financial and monetary system of the United States .

The banker administered the affair of the bank.

John Kanas, a veteran banker charged with reviving BankUnited, sees in it the foundation of a regional powerhouse.

To ensure cash, cheque, bank transfer, banker draft, . . . etc received are recorded into the system promptly.

But the section under which Mr Banker and I are charged is one under which mere promotion of disaffection is a crime.

" Germany has an open wound , " said the banker .

He was an investor in early-stage companies who knew Karla's husband, a corporate banker.

One banker describes the emirate as an "integrated service industry, no different from a very large Euro Disney" .

The two diplomatists shook hands , and then the cooper showed the banker the door .

" They gobbled stuff up , they were a key player in the market, " one banker involved in selling such products recalls .

A dentist is talking to his banker about opening an automatic transfer account for his tax payments.

We will send you our account sales, together with the banker's draft, in a few days.

"It was a less than perfect background, " said one banker.

I considered that I could not do better than take the liberty of asking that lady where Mr. Bounderby the Banker does live.

How would he have done compared with a "central banker" low-risk strategy?

A lot of it probably is wishful (banker) thinking: There is no indication that either AgBank or Bocom will push Goldman aside.

"They do all the work but then keep only a thin slice of the profits, " says a foreign banker in Beijing.

Nobody wanted to be a regional director of sales or an investment banker when they were kids.

A banker by his determination and optimism touched by the end agreed to give him credit.

Mr Smith may not be a banker but he needs to talk the right language to get that support.

The Banker is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines, and tries to catch a few winks.

Recession-hit Britons are getting their own back on banks by playing one of the country's newest amusement arcade games "Whack A Banker. "

It's a good idea to keep on good terms with everybody, but especially with your wife, your banker, your stomach, and your conscience.

Mindlessly handing your money over to a fund manager, investor or banker is never the best idea.

as one Chinese female investment banker in Beijing puts it, "we do not come across as deferential" .

And I still love it. I've been a banker since 1982.

The banker was charged with taking bribes from the bank teller.

A former banker hissed to me: that's because people keep on leaving.

After Georgetown, Kit went into the Marine Corps, then became an international banker.

And being curious means you are more likely to fancy a career as a private detective or journalist than as a banker or executive.

He did so by operating like an investment banker.

The new law, agreed upon Wednesday, will limit upfront cash to 30% of a banker 's total bonus and to 20% in the case of very large bonuses.

"It sounds like the measures are not draconian, " said a senior commodities banker.

A banker approaches the Pearly Gates sweating and struggling with a heavy suitcase.

"The United States has an inherently higher risk appetite, " says a banker familiar with both sides of the fence.

As I said earlier, my banker will not lend me millions of dollars to invest in mutual funds, simply because they are too risky.

One commodities banker said trading houses and corn consumers had been "using options extensively" .

The first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, was a politician, economist, lawyer, businessman and banker.

Merrill banker Skyleer Tilney says John has not beben a real supporter of the company.

"The banker noted that it was the brazenness of the letter . . . that was particularly egregious. "

An ex-banker in Savannah, Georgia, turned his love of local history into a tour business.

One banker says that his firm's internal meetings are sparsely attended all year but, in autumn, are packed as everyone fights to be seen.

But the network has largely disappeared, thanks to globalisation and a decline in the army's role in society, says a Swiss banker.

The PCCW stake is being purchased by Francis Leung, an investment banker, with Mr Li agreeing to spread payments over two years.

The lead banker, as it happened, was Wachovia, whose own problems have since forced it to sell itself to Wells Fargo.

Nor, once the crisis struck, was he the only central banker to prove handy with monetary plunger and wrench.

No politician or central banker, no matter how brilliant, is smart enough to know more than the market itself.

Ihave been a banker for more than 40 years and have experienced financial crises in many forms.

"The IMF is calling for up to 90 percent in debt relief, " complains one banker -- a claim that sources in the IMF deny.

"I can't think of any financial or banker product or service that's ever helped us, " says Mr Jurvetson.

A three-year plan that motivates a mergers and acquisitions banker may be counterproductive for a trader or a derivatives expert.

Mr. Ong has been a veteran banker with extensive experience in banking and finance over 42 years.

But if I was an investment banker, I probably wouldn't be.

"We would have preferred the auction to go ahead, " says one senior Italian banker, who frets that postponement has rattled nerves.

In terms of trophies, he is by no means a banker, guaranteed to win things, in the way that Jose, Cappello, Scolari or Ancelotti are.