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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Starting a Bank
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.103458.2499@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Dec30.112725.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:34:58 GMT
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- bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Bill Garland) writes:
-
- >What does it take to make a bank?
- >
- >Is this line of thought worth developing, or is it simply a pipe
- >dream?
-
- Bill: The other answers you've received to the contrary permit me to
- save you a million dollars and a few years in jail.
-
- 1) The fundamentalest of fundamental rules when starting a pizza shop,
- a record store or a dry-cleaning business is to have worked at one
- first.
-
- If you haven't worked at a bank you don't understand banking.
-
- 2) If you have to ask "how do I start a bank" on usenet you have far
- too much to learn about it. Can we expect "where do I get a good deal
- on one of those check posting machines ?" or "how the heck do interbank
- transfers work anyhow ?"
-
- I'm serious about the potential trouble, never mind the cash reserves
- you will need and all the problems every business has you will run
- afoul of banking regulations before you open your doors and you can
- post messages from prison.
-
- tom
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