Does it make sense, they ask, to impose the same know-your-customer demands on a grandmother who has banked with them for 50 years as on a new private-banking client from Belize?
"The budget's in a dire position, the budget deficit in the government's own budget papers increases from $17.1bn to $35bn over the forward estimates, even with this $3bn saving being banked," he told Sky News on Saturday morning.
It's magical and remote, mist drifting over the jutting limestone karsts, the lake banked by thick jungle.
In Adelaide, captain Taylor Walker slotted three goals as Adelaide banked a slogging 25-point win against Melbourne on Saturday to remain unbeaten this AFL season.
I was told my credit limit would be reduced from £4,500 to £300 but that, if I banked responsibly for the next six months, I could apply to have it increased again gradually.
It seems to have banked very little political credit for that.
I have banked with them ever since.
But Oxford and Cambridge remain aloof, refusing to join what a senior Oxford figure fears may be a "lemming-like rush" into MOOCs.On July 10th Coursera said it had raised another $43m in venture capital, on top of the $22m it banked last year.
"But after the assault on Damascus, we see that nowhere and no one is safe".The regime, twitchier about the loyalty of those it had previously banked on, has arrested several of its own, including a son of the Joud family, a clan in Mr Assad's Alawite sect that runs a web of businesses.
The value of that investment is now conservatively estimated at about $6.8 billion, about two-thirds of it already safely banked.
