At that point, banks across Europe will be rushing to reload and reset about 200,000 automated bank tellers.
At one point, Bank's heroine describes the aftermath of a broken romance as experienced on the therapist's couch: "You talk and talk, waiting for the cure.
A case in point: Bank of China's US$965m purchase in 2006 of Singapore Aircraft Leasing, the largest such firm in Asia.
A cut in VAT would do more to boost confidence and demand than a quarter point bank rate cut, and would bear down on inflation.
And, at some point, banks face a reduction of cut-price liquidity support from central banks—offered in return for often dodgy collateral which has buoyed their profit margins.
Up to a point, banks can try to cross-sell over the phone: speak to your credit-card company, and you will probably be asked if you want to transfer balances from other cards you may have.
Borrowing costs in euros eased last week after huge central bank cash injections, but they remain far higher than normal, and at some point banks will have to pass the borrowing costs on to corporate customers.
Gunmen then shot, at point bank range, anybody who could not recite extracts from the Koran, Ahmed Mahat told BBC News.
At a certain point, banks will be able to overcome more than a year of losses from deteriorating assets with strong revenues and profits from traditional banking activity.
At that point, banks were handing out money to anyone, even if you were just going to use it to book a holiday.
