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Bank is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Floyd Bank, American former basketball coach

Bank is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Floyd Bank, American former basketball coach

Frank Bank (1942–2013), American actor

István Bank (born 1984), Hungarian footballer

Jan Bank (born 1940), Dutch historian

Jesper Bank (born 1957), Danish sailor

Joshua Bank, Russian writer and rabbi

Lawrence C. Bank, American engineer

Linda Bank (born 1986), Dutch swimmer

Melissa Bank (1960–2022), American writer

Ondřej Bank (born 1980), Czech alpine skier

Zsuzsa Bánk (born 1965), German writer

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“The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
— William K. Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry (2005)
“The 12 regional reserve banks aren't government institutions, but corporations nominally 'owned' by member commercial banks.”
— Federal Reserve Bank of New York, I Bet You Thought... (1977), p. 27.
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went (1975), p. 15.
“But please do not think that I am not fond of banks, Because I think they deserve our appreciation and thanks.”
— Ogden Nash. ‘Bankers are Just Like Everybody Else, Except Richer’, The Face is Familiar (1954).
“In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world.”
— Walter Rodney,
“Big banks treat government fines as the cost of doing business. This settlement lets bad bank executives off the hook for allowing TD Bank to be used as a criminal slush fund. The Department of Justice and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency need to do better in enforcing our anti-money laundering laws.””
— Elizabeth Warren accordding to TD Bank hit with record US$3 billion fine over drug cartel money laundering (October 10, 2024)

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