Sentence examples for banking muscle from inspiring English sources

The top-spot trophy is a coup for Citigroup, which, like J. P. Morgan Chase, has been using its commercial banking muscle to help score clients in other parts of its business.

If his group's performance for 1999 is any indication, then this is the first time Quattrone has been able to show off his investment banking muscle ever since he left Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in 1996.

These innovations, as well as an increasingly liquid secondary market when times are good, could allow commercial banks to muscle in on the GSEs' turf.

The London group had a reputation for using the weight of the bank to muscle the rest of the market and for being a little arrogant.

Big banks have muscled them aside in the credit card and home mortgage businesses.

From Mexico to Brazil, cash-rich foreign banks are muscling in.Foreign banks are no strangers to Latin America.

But after Congress repealed those Depression-era laws in 1999, commercial banks began muscling in on Wall Street's turf.

Daiei got an extra ¥400 billion of financial aid topping up the ¥520 billion it received in 2001 and 2002, after banks were muscled into waiving some debt.

Margins have held up better in America, but are likely to fall as new commercial-bank competition muscles in.One gauge of this pressure is that, despite near-ideal operating conditions, the industry has been consolidating.

But strong balance-sheets gave commercial banks the chance to muscle investment banks out of the underwriting of securities.

A handful of stock exchanges, such as America's Arizona Stock Exchange and Britain's Tradepoint, allow fund managers the choice of trading on them directly.Margins have also come under pressure because wave after wave of commercial banks have tried to muscle into investment banking.