(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(4) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(5) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(6) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(7) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(8) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(9) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
(10) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
(11) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
(12) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(13) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(14) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(15) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(16) The central part of the system is the patient-orientated data bank.
(17) Compared to the data produced by the Lipid Research Clinics (USA), coronary risk appeared higher for all the surveyed factors in the Italian general population, and particularly in bank employees.
(18) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
(19) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
(20) A DNA sequencing of 139 bp at the 3' end of these clones and a search of the data bank revealed that the sequence was identical to the parallel domain in the human H19 gene.
Banker
Definition:
(n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
(n.) A money changer.
(n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
(n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
(n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.
(n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(2) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(3) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(4) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
(5) For example, the Bank of England was nationalised in 1946, but remained in effect the voice of merchant bankers in the City.
(6) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
(7) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(8) The sense that someone else is running the show – bankers, Europe, multinationals – is no longer the province of the radical left.
(9) How ironic it would be, if the bankers came round to the same argument again.
(10) Lord Mandelson told bankers today that the one-off tax that will be imposed on their bonuses in today's pre-budget report was not designed to "teach them a lesson".
(11) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
(12) Stockman said much of the $1.6tn spent by the Federal Reserve as part of its QE policy was swallowed by Wall Street and simply made bankers richer.
(13) The British Bankers' Association "The commission's proposed options will have to be considered alongside other reforms under way at a national and international level.
(14) Until the October 2008 banking crisis there were no restrictions on the way bankers were paid, but rules were devised to try to link payouts to performance when it emerged that banks would still pay bonuses despite receiving taxpayer bailouts.
(15) The bankers try to answer without making the company look bad.
(16) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(17) Murrawah Johnson, 20, who is Burragubba’s niece, took time out from revising for her university finals to meet the bankers.
(18) But for this to work the political power of the alliance of bankers and lenders has to be broken.
(19) The crash exposed shortcomings in standards in regulators almost as bad as in banks.” The Treasury denied it was involved in the review being dropped, although it has been involved in changing some of the tougher rules being used to clamp down on bankers.
(20) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.