Sentence examples for mere banking from inspiring English sources

As with Fifth Third's foray into leveraged lending, there's more at stake in these deals than mere banking fees; call it further proof that it's good to be the bank.

For when foreigners proved unwilling to stand the political and other costs of a lawsuit against a mere bank, the Russian government quickly realised that its creditors' bite was even more feeble than their bark.

I walked there from the centre of town, and saw how the metropolitan civic pride of the city centre gives way quickly to a strange mix of insular 80s low-rise, low-density housing, vast parks created from wasteland in the same decade, and eccentric Arts and Crafts buildings like the Mere Bank pub or the Everton Library – beautiful and derelict in the middle of it all.

His latest appointment may be a signal that Citi is finally ready to go back to the basics and become a mere bank once more.

The government has made several efforts to curb the abuse last month, for example, the tax ministry banned companies from opening new accounts with banks that had been holding back tax payments.Closing down a mere 12 banks is not going to shut this loophole.

Without Generali, Mediobanca would be a mere investment-banking boutique.Fiat, a big shareholder in Mediobanca, has scores to settle with the bank.

In the view of many, it wasn't mere individual banks that failed.

And it is no mere blip: banks' return on equity has exceeded 25% in six of the past ten years (see chart).

I am glad that a man is speaking out against a system that sees men as mere adjuncts (bank accounts) in the human reproductive process.

He may reject laissez-faire, but a retreat from industrial policy, watering down the green investment bank and mere exhortations for banks to lend again does not suggest success.

The (almost) binary grouping that motivated this post is between those who reckon that banks, debt and money are of no real consequence in capitalism, and those who believe that the mere mechanics of banking guarantee that capitalism is doomed.