Desi Banks Milwaukee Novels & Stories

She put a note on her tab, waiting for my answer. “Err… Yes, it’s alright, I’ll be waiting for the candidate list, thank you, miss Daisy.” “Great, I will make the necessary application for a Swiss bank account and also for the national bank. You can make a deposit to your Swiss bank if you don’t feel necessary to spend a lum sum of money every month.” Miss Daisy elegantly gave me her card, “This is my personal contact number, only my clients have this private number, because now you’re married to the three alphas. That makes you my client as well.”

Firstbank, Lagos. Yaba Branch. Since crowded places made him nauseous, Milkos did not flinch when he got sandwiched into the stuffy Transaction Area of the banking hall. He had come to deposit some cash. The line of people on the deposit queue was almost fifteen feet long. So he opted for a cold cup of water from the dispenser while waiting for the queue to be decongested. When it was finally his turn to perform his transaction, he walked up to the counter, smiled at the beautiful bank representative and slid his fat wad of a thousand naira notes across it, the rep took the money and counted with the machine.

"Tomorrow a woman will come to your bank. Her name is Hadrianna Lazaro-Montecillo and I want your bank to obey her request. One-billion-peso loan, grant it and we're good." "Yes, I'm sorry but I can't grant your request if you don't personally go and talk to the head of VWB brach." “It’s either you’ll do it or I will pull out all of my investments and money in your bank. Remember my name. It’s Desmond Montecillo.” May mesteryusong ngiti siya sa mga labi. “By the way, the owner of Valdemar World Bank is one of my friends.” “I will hold your call for a moment, Mr. Montecillo. I’ll have to call our head in our branch for your transaction. Is it okay with you?”

Pari let out a frustrated sigh with her mother's pleadings. Pari Deshmukh, a 26 year old IIMS graduate working for Tech Mahindra Pune as business analyst for the last 3 years. Born and brought up in Pune as the only daughter of Ajay Deshmukh and Shilpa Deshmukh, she is her family's pride. When she cracked the entrance for IIMS, everyone in her family praised her, but as per her good-looking and dumb cousins, she was nothing but a looser who tries to cover her ugliness with academics.