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Wednesday 10th of June 2026

Bank regulators When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? Elizabeth Warren to bank regulators, at her 1st Banking Committee hearing (2013) © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bankers The Bank of Mom and Dad America's No. 1 mortgage lender © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bankers They just announced earnings and they were incredible. They were very substantial. Will you say, “Thank you, Mr. President, at least, huh?” Donald Trump, to Mary Erdoes, head of asset and wealth management at JPMoran Chase, at the signing of the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Agreement, January 15, 2019 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bankers Your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees, who dont't have the money for a fancy PR firm to defend themselves. It's gutless leadership. The only way that Wall Street will change is if executives face jail time when they preside over massive frauds. Elizabeth Warren to John Stumpf, chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo, who the Senate Banking Committee was questioning about nearly 2,000,000 fee-generating accounts and credit cards opened without customers' knowledge, for which Stumpf was “deeply sorry,” while not promising to claw back compensation paid to any executive in the chain of command © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bankers say The analogy I use was that it was like lions hunting zebras. They would look for the weakest, the ones that would put up the least resistance. Former Wells Fargo employee describing how bankers there created unauthorized or unnecessary accounts for customers. Quoted by New York Times, October 21, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bankers say Don't get caught © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say Give poor people credit cards © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say Heads I win, tails taxpayers lose © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. chatter by a member of The Cartel, a group of traders from six banks that used an exclusive chatroom and coded language to rig foreign exchange rates for their personal profits from 2007 to 2013 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say LTL online shorthand for “Let's Talk Live and avoid a trail” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say My garbage disposal eats better than 98 percent of the world. @GSElevator, the tweeting banker also known as “J. T. Stone” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say Praise ye The God of Gold William Walton, “Belshazzar's Feast”  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say Privatize profits, socialize risks  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say They let us look at the money. They just don't give us any. Karen Akers, bank teller, quoted in The Great Divergence  by Timothy Noah © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say You start with very simple tasks such as looking for data and maybe putting into Powerpoint a slide that was already drafted. When you gradually gain your seniors' confidence, they will give you more responsibility until you reach the ‘holy grail’: doing the Excel model yourself. a young banker, Financial Times, July 11, 2014 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers say You've been denied © 2015 Kwiple.com
Banking Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. Walter Bagehot © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Banks Virtually no big United States banking institution has done new business with Mr. Trump in years, in part because of his history of bankruptcies and his penchant for litigation. During orientation for new employees, Goldman Sachs specifically used to use Mr. Trump as an example of the kind of prospective client to avoid. Andrew Ross Sorkin, September 27, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com