Sentence examples for honest banking from inspiring English sources

European business leaders and (honest) banking officials called Greece's deep recession a depression, since that's exactly how it appears to them.

An honest bank in Russia attracts long queues of customers.

He's in love with a young woman (Fay Wray) who's tired of underworld sleaze and leaves him for a poor but honest bank teller (Richard Arlen).

The 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, is an uplifting tale about the difference a good, honest bank manager has made to the lives and fortunes of his hard-working clients – revealed with help from a friendly angel.

And, if they are honest, banks will also admit they invited over-prescriptive legislation by being so slow to cut bonuses even when their financial returns were so lousy and regulators, not only the public, were appalled by the display of naked self-interest.

An honest bank is hard to find.

But fair is fair: At least theoretically, Chase's executives may be trying to run an honest bank.

And let's be honest, American banks suck.

Although the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and federal prosecutors typically take the lead in keeping banks honest, any big international bank must have an operation in New York and it is Mr Lawsky who hands out most licences for that.

Equally, Europe's politicians must be willing to provide the resources to recapitalise banks if necessary.Lastly, a more honest assessment of banks' balance-sheets must translate into a willingness by the banks to sell or restructure mortgages and corporate loans.

Pushing for a new regulatory regime that would deny a safety net to institutions engaged in risky activities, he told the attendees: "The threat of failure keeps a bank honest and inhibits it and the industry from trending toward excessive risks.