Well, for starters, the broad use of the word bank there are about 8, 000 of them you know when referring to the sins of a handful of Wall Street investment banks.
Dividends were minimal in 2011 too although one has to keep in mind that the Fed has the final word on bank dividends.
As for George Osborne's decision to require RBS to slim down its investment banking even further, and to retreat into being more of a UK bank, the word from the Royal Bank is that he's simply falling into line with chief executive Stephen Hester's blunt assessment with his third quarter results last month.
About a year ago, economic forecasters claiming insight into Fed deliberations spread the word that the central bank had devised a methodical exit strategy to unwind its balance sheet.
At a hastily convened press conference on August 20th, the three bank bosses studiously avoided the word gappei, or merger, preferring the vaguer togo, or consolidation.
You've taken Interpal's word for it, without going to the West Bank, that that kind of thing isn't going on, haven't you?
The Vatican Bank - known officially as the Institute for Works of Religion - has hitherto exempted itself from international banking regulations on the grounds that it is not a real bank in the normal sense of the word, our correspondent says.
Burnat recorded some of his boy's first words: army, cartridge and the Arabic word for the security fence separating Israel and the West Bank.
Gordon Brown for the first time uttered the "r" word - recession, agreeing with the governor of the Bank of England that Britain appears to be heading into recession.
The Dow Jones industrial average soared 500 points late in the day Friday after word that Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the person at the center of all the negotiations over troubled banks in the last few months, would be the next Treasury Secretary.
Given that his soldiers virtually keep the town going their tasks range from shooting wild dogs to paying pensions in crisp German bank-notes one might think his word was law.
The new sterling bank notes on which "Danske" will replace the word "Northern", will be phased in next year.
Ten days short of the deadline a banker at ICICI Bank agreed to provide the guarantee, accepting Atul's word as collateral.
Will bank capital inadequacies cause a contagion that can not be contained by word or promise of politicians?
As for Mahmoud, he is waiting for word on the American investigation into his finances and on the inquiry into Kabul Bank.
It was Hamilton Bolton, the BCA founder, who used the word supercycle, and he was referring generally to a lot of things, including money velocity, bank liquidity and interest rates.
The fact that Tombini has used the word attentive before the April meeting is a strong signal that, contrary to what we believed, the Bank has decided to fast forward its protocol and raise rates now.
In a short preface Mr Kynaston says that his intention was to demythologise the City which had thought of itself as a village in which a man's word was his bond and discipline was administered by a nod and a wink from the governor of the Bank of England.
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