Sentence examples for banking proposition from inspiring English sources

The firm, which already has some 80 staff in Edinburgh, wants to hire about 300 people to bolster administration teams before it launches a banking proposition in late 2011 or 2012.

Along with functions that let users set up savings pots, tag and track spending or automatically sweep cash between current and savings accounts, it also learns as it is used, says Helen Page, the banking group's propositions and marketing director.

The bank's value proposition to startups is access to payment rails and wire systems — the idea being that instead of jumping through financial hurdles, startups can instead focus on customer acquisition and growth.

His next letter said "the bank has declined the proposition".

Voters might find that hard to imagine: a former commercial banker policing commercial banks sounds a tricky proposition for the government to sell.

Davies said: "The delivery of a new challenger bank is an exciting proposition and we look forward to working with Jim through this next stage to IPO".

But in an interview in advance of the Friday and Saturday G-7 meetings, a senior Treasury official reiterated that the Obama administration is committed to the proposition that banks must remain in private hands.

He justified the RBS sell-off – at a £1bn loss to the taxpayer – on the basis that if more shares were available to private investors it would make the bank a more attractive proposition.

Update: It's obvious that many commenters don't get the distinction between the proposition that banks create money — which every economics textbook, mine included, says they do (that's what the money multiplier is all about) — and the proposition that their ability to create money is not constrained by the monetary base.

There are vehement denials of the proposition that banks' lending is limited by their deposits, or that the monetary base plays any important role; banks, we're told, hold hardly any reserves (which is true), so the Fed's creation or destruction of reserves has no effect.

That revenue stream should be enough of a value proposition for banks to get on board.