Banks

Other banks have chosen getting stimulus money to their customers ASAP, but the big guys are planning a green gift on the greenest day.

Luckily, under its current plan, there will be no need for another awkward conversation on the matter next year.

Never again will a bank have to admit how bad at banking it is in court, at least on this matter.

The rock of respectability has rolled back down the Alps.

You mean to tell me that SoftBank and the Swiss joined forces to back a loser?

You can say and do whatever you want to a dolly-bird tart in old Blighty, as long as she can’t raise the money you need.

They’re feeling very SPACial.

Finders keepers is apparently a genuine precedent under New York State law.

Because at least one of them allegedly found a bank-embarrassing way to make a hundred thousand extra pounds.

Thomas Gottstein has an extra $80 million to spend on, uh, other settlements, probably.

Sure, things were bad enough for Corbat to essentially get fired, but not bad enough to keep him from an eight-figure payday.

You don’t think a bank doing well would hand the reins to someone so conspicuously lacking in a penis if it were doing well, do you?

It’s a bad idea for a whole lot of reasons and you can’t make him, as long as he remains marooned in the south Pacific.

You don’t become the bank of choice for Eastern European gangsters by posing too many.

In karmically-related news, Deutsche Bank posted its first profit since the Obama Administration.

Apparently not in Hong Kong, anyway.

But Noel Quinn’s not a political man so he’d rather not get in to the obvious implications of that choice.

And David Solomon & co. are still paying for the sins of others.

We know, hard to believe at a firm that’s paid roughly €11ty gazillion in fines the last few years.

D-Sol and J-Gorm really would like to share they year’s bounty with you, but they just can’t right now.

Very on-brand for America’s most hapless Irish dad.

The not-46th-president-of-the-United-States made history this week all the same.

Comply with our subpoenas or, you know, just stop doing any business in the United States.

It definitely says “Thou shalt not cancel my checking account in absence of a mask” in one or all of those.

The Drumpfs need some new banks.

And private equity firms have even bigger concerns.

Unlike the president, Goldman Sachs really did mean it metaphorically.

As usual, it’s going to lose money on it.

BriMoy & co. are gonna hold on to what’s rightfully yours for your own good.

Deutsche Bank won’t have Rosemary Vrablic to kick around anymore. But Cy Vance still does.

If Dirk Albersmeier catches someone so much as putting a holiday card up in the cubicle, there will be hell to pay: There are SPAC prospectuses to read.

Have we got a $58 million house for you.

The financial crisis is still very much ongoing in Zürich.

Not in your toolbox, eh, Urs?