With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending…

Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.

— Suze Orman

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try…

— Vince Cable

The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its…

— Michael Hudson

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

— Barry Ritholtz

Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets.

— Steve Eisman

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

— Jerome Kerviel

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they…

— Ben Stein

Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work,…

— Bob Diamond

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be…

— Graydon Carter

Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices.…

— Wilbur Ross

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes,…

— Elizabeth Warren

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are…

— Stephen Stills

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to…

— David Cameron

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that…

— Rahm Emanuel

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets.…

— Vince Cable