The banks are less solvent than we are being told –…

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

— John Gutfreund

As a matter of fact 25% of our U.S. investment banking business comes out of our commercial bank. So it's a competitive advantage for…

— Jamie Dimon

This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the euro was…

— George Soros

At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's…

— Murray Rothbard

If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be…

— Jamie Dimon

Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as…

— Murray Rothbard

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

— Jamie Dimon

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or…

— Robert W. Hemphill

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

— Robert W. Hemphill

I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and…

— Bob Hawke

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

— Ben Bernanke

JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail…

— Jamie Dimon

“notably the 1999 repeal of the US Glass–Steagall Act – allowed commercial banks to become investment banks as well. In addition to investing their…

— Robert Skidelsky

Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally…

— Gary North