Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to museums. As people conduct their financial transactions on hand-held devices made secure by advanced biometrics, even tipping will be done electronically.
Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules.
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations, if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough.
For over a decade, the top 1% of income earners have seen their pay skyrocket, riding a wave of lobbyist-sponsored financial de-regulation. For the remaining 99%, wages have stagnated, and employment has fallen off a cliff.
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.
If AIG collapsed, it would have buckled our financial system and wrought economic havoc on the lives of millions of our citizens.
The sale of Treasury bonds, notes, and bills finances the U.S. government, and those securities are, in turn, a primary vehicle for savings for a wide range of U.S. households. Treasury securities are also an important source of collateral within the financial system.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.
The suggestion that we were pursuing consolidation as a replacement for reaching our financial targets by 2018 is fundamentally a bunch of hogwash.
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.