Sentences with phrase «like old bank»

Much like old bank branches with barred wickets separating the queued - up public from the service, law offices force people with varied legal problems to take a seat and read back issues of Maclean's.

Not exact matches

Even «old world» companies like big banks and accounting firms are building exercise rooms into their new facilities because they know it leads to results.

That's especially true on Sundays, when RBC's much - hyped investment in meeting consumer needs, whenever and however people want, is closed — just like in the good old days, when banks were called banks.

«That's like finding a lucky penny on the sidewalk on the same day your bank account is drained by a 16 - year - old Belgian hacker,» Oliver joked.

The new unit will offer the loans through a website or an app — functioning like a virtual bank in one of the oldest companies on Wall Street.

Let's have a clear understanding: the majority of equity crowdfunding (or crowdinvesting) platforms that have recently flooded the market, are registered broker - dealers companies (or have to work through registered broker dealers) and fundamentally is an alternative form of online investment banking for start - ups and early stage companies where as of now not a crowd — but only accredited investors are entitled to invest, just like in the good old days.

At the other end of the spectrum, previously unloved, old, «ex growth» companies like the large banks and miners dragged the All Ords Accumulation Index up to a respectable 4.2 % return.

According to ICBA findings, millennials have frustrations with Wall Street and bigger banks over issues like high fees and older banking mechanisms, making them more likely to turn to community banks for assistance when starting those businesses.

The tools of statecraft at home are distraction and anesthetization while abroad the Politics of Empire demand exploitation via coersion, subterfuge, economic subjugation via corporatist organization like the World Bank and IMF, or plain old, flat out violence.

The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked rice pancakes; children went to play at tag in dusty fields or caught frogs by the banks of the Euphrates; while the men took to the brick kilns, potters» wheels, and plows; lovers arose to make love once again; and old men at the gate weighed claims and vows.

«He was thinking about opening up an Italian family style restaurant like Coney Island geared toward Sunday night at your house, with grandmother cooking old - fashioned Italian recipes — big portions on platters put out family style — or similar to an Italian wedding,» Bank relates.

I spent my birthday with old friends and new, sunning ourselves like lizards on the flat sandstone rocks on the banks of Abiquiu Lake.

Music boxes and piggy banks; we really like this line we carry from Switzerland, and the round music boxes in particular are really great, the way even a one year old can turn the crank.

I really would have liked to donate to a milk bank back when my oldest was a newborn.

If Thatcherism resembled the Man from Del Monte, forever saying no, then New Labour has been more like the old TSB, the bank that liked to say yes: Thatcherism upset too many interest groups, but New Labour has shied away from the tough decisions.

«The NDA is unperturbed, we have mandate that is clearly a departure of those old tactics of the defunct so - called MEND that was indulged in kidnapping, hostage taking, sea piracy, illegal oil bunkering, bank robberies and social crimes the likes of Boyloafs, Ateke Toms, were associated to in their days in the name struggle.

Today, if you enter a Bank of America call center where this simple change has been made, you'd likely see teams of operators huddled together swapping stories or heading off to lunch, cracking jokes like old friends.

some new wardrobe staples — like Old Navy «s half - zip pullovers and compression capris — can go a long way to get your you - know - what in gear, without breaking your bank account.

Hey, anybody want an «old guys rob banks» movie that's sort of like Last Vegas meets The Crew, The Bucket List, About Schmidt, Mad Money, and Dirty Grandpa?

His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his oldest, Abigail, 7, pulls math problems written on strips of paper out of an old Kleenex box, decorated like a piggy bank with a pink snout on one end and a curly - cue tail on the other, and adds the numbers as fast as she can.

No, but these innovations from Amazon (and other tech companies) are forcing public libraries — like many older institutions (e.g., post offices, banks, etc.)-- to adjust / adapt / change to meet the needs and demands of the culture we are living in today (not 50 years ago).

At times the book reads like a page - turning espionage novel, beginning with a 1907 bank robbery masterminded by the 29 - year - old Stalin and led by gang leader, Kamo who was «completely enthralled» by Stalin (read the excerpt).

Many banks won't finance loans for used cars over a certain age, like 8 or 10 years, and loans for the older models that are allowed often carry much higher APRs.

There's only a few non-teaser 5 % ED cards left, and the AMEX blue cash is probably the most reliable one (there is Penfed 5 % gas / 1.25 % everything else but requires you to buy a one - time membership and supposedly the old citi 5 % gas / grocery dividend lives on in the form of the cobranded associated bank cash rebate card but I'm willing to bet after a year it'll go away just like my old 5 % citi card did.

Yes, it's an account, and if you really wanted to, you could fill it with cash and collect the paltry interest rate that a bank offers and it will function like an old fashioned savings account.

Some time ago I read an article telling that banks were advising their investment officers to not promote annuities with people 65 or older yet banks and everyone in the investment world would like to sell annuities regardless of age.

Yes it may look weird, and if you don't like it you can always «pay from Equity» the prior month, or your Bank Account if you're backfilling old statements.

«I like to know, based on where they're thinking of going, if they are going to have the same experience at the new bank as they had at their old,» he said.

So, when new regulations tightened the bank's profit margins in bread - and - butter sectors like trading, the 148 - year - old firm realized it could expand its business into new areas.

For example, your old bank might have offered special perks you took for granted that the new bank doesn't — perks like no monthly fees for checking, free checks or online bill pay.

But like the old saw, where if you owe the bank $ 1000 and can't pay, you have a problem; but if you owe the bank $ 10 billion, they have a problem — the US government concluded that they had to protect the banks in order to protect the system as a whole.

Consumers warily embracing credit cards again, Fed reports show — Like two old friends trying to rebuild a fractured relationship, banks and credit card users appear to be taking tentative steps toward reconciling, according to a pair of new Federal Reserve reports... (See Consumers, cards courting again)

Boring, old fashioned stocks like BCE Inc. (TSX: BCE)(NYSE: BCE) and the Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY)(NYSE: RY) often produce the best returns around.

Aan de Oever, meaning on the river bank, is a house built in the Cape Dutch style, like many others in historic Swellendam, the third oldest town in South Africa.

Apart from that revelation, I did strongly enjoy the contrast between Luxembourg's pseudo-medieval old town on the rock and the new Manhattan - like bank area named Kirchberg.»

After trying to find a merger partner and failing, the remaining partners must have found the last days to have been crushing — working like crazy only to find they are a day older and still deeply in debt to the bank.

I don't want to seem like a Debbie Downer about this, but it's kind of terrifying to think that your child's SSN and identity might be stolen before they're even old enough to open a bank account.

I am 37 year old, where I am looking out retirement plans like, PPF, RD (very know Co-operative banks giving around 11.25 % for 10 years) other banks now a days is around 7.75 to 8 % depends.

Krause joined the the three - year - old electric car startup in March, having spent 30 years in executive positions at companies like BMW and Deutsche Bank.

However, it seems like banking's old guard does not put their money where their mouth is.

But critics of private blockchains like Billon say that it's simply the same old story however... with banks being at the helm, nothing changes and allowing the banks to continue as trust agents is simply not going to work.

According to Robert Slatt, a principal at the mortgage banking firm Newark Realty Capital based in San Francisco, most of the development activity he is seeing involves adaptive reuse of obsolete structures, like old warehouse buildings.

Heritage preservation is money in the bank too — just consider the positive economic and tourism spin offs of responsible heritage programs in communities like Kingston, Perth, Port Hope, Cobourg, Port Perry, old Montreal, Markham / Unionville, Quebec City, Niagara on the Lake and St. Jacobs.

Just like the banking industry, we are consolidating to operate more like Bank of America and GEICO, and less like mom and pop PMs of old.

Since I first got a bank account I've been using Chase Bank because that's what my mom used, but as I've gotten older I've begun to think there is a better option for me that could better assist for my real estate goals (like, maybe a credit unibank account I've been using Chase Bank because that's what my mom used, but as I've gotten older I've begun to think there is a better option for me that could better assist for my real estate goals (like, maybe a credit uniBank because that's what my mom used, but as I've gotten older I've begun to think there is a better option for me that could better assist for my real estate goals (like, maybe a credit union).

It's like the bank accepts a sales price for its product instead of the old, full price that was part of the original deal.

Charities like The Furniture Bank will pick up old furniture and mattresses at no charge and give you a tax receipt.