On Wall Street, There Is No "wall

We, Americans, Have The Best Country On The Planet. We Have Schools, Universities, Food, Water, Energy, Peaceful Neighbors, Low Corruption, You Name It, Deepest And Widest Capital Markets. That Doesn't Mean We Shouldn't Identify Problems. We Don't Have A Divine Right To Success.

Banks Don't Want Certain Asset Classes, And That's Created Opportunities For Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Silicon Valley. In This Case I Think He Was Referring To Some Of The European Banks Shedding Assets, And The Big Buyers Are Probably Not Going To Be Big American Banks. Someone Like Blackstone May Have A Very Good Chance To Buy Those Assets, Leverage Them, Borrow Up A Little Bit, And Do Something Good There.

You Would Expect To See That First In High-yield [debt], But It Was In The Most Liquid Thing In The World. So That, I Think - It's A Little Bit Of A Warning That We've Got To Be Prepared And Just Be Careful.

I Don't Think You're Going To Have One Bank. Big Companies Aren't Going To Give Us All Their Business. So They Can Pick And Choose - By Product, By Country, Whatever. We Have Major Competition Across Every Product In Every Place We Operate.

We Use Technology To Make It Cheaper, Better, And Faster For The Client. And Then If You Have The Most Flow, You Can Win. Now, Having Said That, Silicon Valley Wants To Take On This Business. They Think They See An Opening.