Banks Quote by Chuka Umunna

When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. -…

— Bob Diamond

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over…

— Henry Paulson

A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman.…

— Chris Larsen

Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch between payment…

— Brian Armstrong

“The kind of data and the data-analytical perspective privy to banks is quite unique to banks.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit…

— Lloyd Dorfman

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

— Giannina Braschi

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

— Bill Gates

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long…

— Mario Monti

With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans…

— Elizabeth Warren

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb