Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

Mexico has very solid financial institutions, with good levels of capitalism, but they’re not lending much.

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

I don’t believe rolling back some regulations on Wall Street will in any way help the small business.

Financial institutions risk becoming socially useless unless they focus on the real economy and help businesses invest and create jobs.

We need to change how we run banks. We need to change the culture. If we get it right, we can have a huge impact.

Separating out banks and investment banks right now under Glass-Steagall would have very big implications to the liquidity and the capital markets and banks being able to perform necessary lending.

The number one priority is going to be make sure that banks lend.

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.

We need to repeal and replace Dodd-Frank. We need to make America fair again for all businesses, but especially those being run by small business owners.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

… clean up thoroughly unwholesome conditions in the field of investment. In this we have had assistance from many bankers and businessmen, most of whom recognize the past evils in the banking system, in the sale of securities, in the deliberate encouragement of stock gambling, in the sale of unsound mortgages and in many other ways in which the public lost billions of dollars. They saw that without changes in the policies and methods of investment there could be no recovery of public confidence in the security of savings.

The Japanese financial system … gives higher priority to the interest of banks and other financial institutions than to that of users.

It is certainly for the public good to keep all the banks competitors for our favors by a judicious distribution of them and thus to engage the individuals who belong to them in support of the reformed order of things or at least in an acquiescence under it.

Most certainly it was a very wrong step to Crush the Private Bank, and set up this Publick Bank in its place

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing

The American banking system, which at one time extended productive loans to agriculture and industry, has today become a giant betting machine