"What were the banks thinking?" she asked.
The more we looked at this the more we asked ourselves 'What were some of these banks thinking?' ".
She had turned 18, the age at which you are first allowed to compete inthe competition, and recalls walking the course, which included a near-perpendicular 10ft 6in bank, thinking how "scary" it was.
Instead, an export company, owned by a prominent Colombian family, issued fraudulent documents indicating that the coffee had been shipped, and the banks, thinking the deliveries had been made, immediately paid the bills.
"The Spanish authorities basically spent four years denying problems such as those of the banks, thinking that such denial would protect Spain's image," said Ignacio de la Torre, a partner at Arcano, a Spanish wealth advisory and asset management firm.
I mean, watching console players play FPSes is watching a mudskipper flopping along the bank, thinking "god I'm slick".
When governments are no longer willing to use taxpayer money to bail out banks that have gambled away their capital, the banks are now being instructed to "recapitalize" themselves by confiscating the funds of their creditors, turning debt into equity, or stock; and the "creditors" include the depositors who put their money in the bank thinking it was a secure place to store their savings.
Look beyond the traditional bank branch: Building banks from scratch is a mammoth task but it does allow us to redesign traditional bank thinking by applying new approaches to how we meet consumers' financial service needs, how we operate the bank and how we use technology to reach consumers differently.
I went into the bank thinking, 'Just another day at the job,' but when I asked the teller for the money, she looked at me like I was speaking fucking Russian or something, then told me to get the hell out of there!
DURING last month's cash crunch, China's banks struggled desperately to work out what the country's central bank was thinking.
