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#148892 - 01/27/04 06:16 PM
Re: Good Old Days of Banking
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In my area, those type of loans are called "leg loans"
Oh my... I hadn't heard this one in a quite a while. When I first started in banking, the lenders used this term to tease each other. I was soooo green, it took me a while to figure out what they meant.
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#148895 - 01/27/04 11:51 PM
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#148896 - 01/28/04 03:28 PM
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I was once trying to explain my job to a very close friend. He said "Oh, you're like a narc!" I said some probably see me that way.
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#148897 - 01/28/04 03:50 PM
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A friend once showed me what was allegedly a real copy of an employment application from a teenager. Under sex, he put "a little once".
Now for the really good old days of banking. THERE WAS NO FINCEN TO DEAL WITH. I'm having a bad day, or can you tell?
I see the train coming, and its getting closer and closer by the minute.
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#148898 - 01/28/04 03:53 PM
Re: Good Old Days of Banking
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At my first bank, we required every MMDA/Savings transaction to be in-person and over-the-counter. Sure made monitoring those products for excessive transactions a piece of cake. Also, way back when, we all had a good general knowledge of what every dept did. Some of us trained as "floaters" meaning we'd fill in wherever needed. At that time many that it was a lowly position, but I truly think it was a valuable experience. Even though much has changed (technology) since that time, I still have a good general sense of what goes on. The banks I've been involved with in the last 15-20 years no longer implement this. I think these folks are missing out.
Last edited by OnTheEdge; 01/28/04 03:55 PM.
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#148899 - 01/28/04 04:22 PM
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I see the train coming, and its getting closer and closer by the minute.
Just don't try to see how close you could get your head to the train before it hits it
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#148902 - 03/05/05 03:49 PM
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Does anyone remember the HMDA-1 (before the HMDA LAR)?
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#148903 - 03/06/05 06:06 AM
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How about "local clearing" of checks? Anyone involved with meeting at various banks each day and exchanging bags of checks? "Here Bank #1 - here are all your checks totalling $5 million. And thank you for our checks totalling $4 million - you owe me $1 million...." Something like that. We would physically exchange checks between the local area banks and pay the difference.
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#148904 - 03/06/05 06:16 AM
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Oops - that was me; wasn't logged in!
We also had full key, manual Burroughs teller machines, with many that couldn't accept a deposit over 99,999.99 because there weren't enough keys on the machine. These weren't the ones with cranks, tho' we did have some of those. In '72 I worked at our main office as a teller, where we had a Collections Department that handled bond redemption, foreign currency, bond coupons, etc. All the tellers basically did was take deposits and cash checks. The branches did everything - including what Collections did - and when I was sent there to work one day, I was totally clueless. It was especially hard because I couldn't tell a debit from a credit to save my life. When my main office manager got frustrated w/me later on because I couldn't balance, she would threaten to send me back to a branch - I started balancing the next day!
I also recall the ledgers for checking balances, and the excitement when we got our first back counter computer - with the LED readout. We also balanced Christmas Club coupons by hand - and had daily balance sheets (in the typewriters) to balance our teller debits and credits each night. Did any of you have the "cage transfers" between the vault and the tellers for cash? We had little pink and blue slips (were some male, and some female?) and if the branch didn't balance, it was usually found there.
Ahhhh...the good old days!
Good thread!
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#148905 - 03/06/05 07:49 PM
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My first real job after graduating college was marketing officer for a bank. Keep in mind, this was just ten years ago.
My boss showed me to my office and I asked, "When will my computer be delivered?"
He responded, "What do you need a computer for?"
Uh, geez, I don't know. I guess I could just design our ads and brochures with a 64 box of crayons and a big chief tablet!
If I hadn't needed the job so bad, I would have ran out the door. It took about 3 months to convince the bank that I needed a computer!
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#148907 - 03/07/05 04:22 PM
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I remember starting in wire. We had to manually encode the account number on each entry, which we began after fed closed at 3:00 PM EST. We were never out by 5:00 because of the encoding and balancing. We were constantly looking for entries that got thrown out in error. The messenger would have to wait for us so he could deliver the "yellow" bag to the area that processed the entries. Also I remember doing "puts and Pulls". We did them on a teletype machine with ticker tape. And when we typed the fed wires, if the fed ran out of paper they would ring a bell on our machine and type for us to stop on OUR machine. No such thing as repeat codes. We used to process 100's of the same wires, day in and day out for Ford. We had to type the entire wire. Loved that 3:00 deadline when Ford usually called in and we manually wrote down the amounts around 1:00. Thankfully we did have pre-typed sheets with all the info.
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#148908 - 03/08/05 04:33 PM
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and bank robbers made their getaways on horseback!!!
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#148909 - 03/11/05 01:18 AM
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and bank robbers made their getaways on horseback!!!
One day around 1980 or so, I was looking for something in the basement of the first bank I worked for. I came across a scrapbook that contained a news article about an attempted robbery of the bank.
The robbery was thwarted when the cashier ran out after the robber and shot him in the street. The police commended the cashier for his quick thinking and good shooting. The robbery happened sometime in the 1930s. I thought the story was very interesting.
Do any of your tellers keep guns in their drawers? I wonder how often banks would be robbed if criminals knew tellers had access to a pistol? (On the other hand, we'd probably hear stories about tellers shooting customers or their managers too, huh? Of course, compliance officers might be tempted to shoot loan officers and examiners!)
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#148911 - 03/11/05 06:15 PM
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There's an old story about an examiner who had a meeting with a banker out in Far West Texas (or possibly South Texas, I've heard both). It was an exam wrap up, and they sat down to go over the findings. Apparently the banker didn't like the way things were going because he got up, went to his desk drawer, pulled out a pistol, and put it in the middle of the table. "Now, about those findings of your'n......."
I never did hear how the rest of the meeting went.
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#148912 - 03/11/05 11:06 PM
Re: Good Old Days of Banking
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When I was an examiner we had a bank that had a revolver in a holster nailed in the cubby under the teller's cage. Yes, they had the bars and all. Small bank, one cage. Everything was done by hand, no computers, no accruals, they might have used a type writer. I felt like I was stepping back in time when I went there (this was in the 80s.
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#148913 - 03/17/05 07:59 PM
Re: Good Old Days of Banking
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What about the old Quip machine that was used to send returns to the Fed?
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#148914 - 03/17/05 09:20 PM
Re: Good Old Days of Banking
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My bank has stories about the days when there was a gun under the teller counter. I think the Pres also had a shotgun in the closet - and a good view across the lobby.
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