They do it to bulge the bank accounts of bankers, company managers, and investors all over the world. |
|
Bank charges are a continual bone of contention between bankers and depositors. |
|
Upon the death of her mother she took over as the lady of the house, entertaining scientists, bankers and writers. |
|
They had already incurred the enmity of the royal houses of Europe, why add that of the bankers? |
|
Initially, there seems to be nothing remarkable about a group of investment bankers being mentors. |
|
Government instructions, bankers say, were to freeze assets now and ask questions later. |
|
This is evident when they propose to narrowly restrict eligibility for Third World debt remission so as not to offend the bankers of the West. |
|
Analysts and investment bankers now must report to different supervisors, and they must be physically separated. |
|
The money being loaned out hasn't disappeared, it still exists and by golly it is still making profits for the bankers. |
|
This may change if the world's central bankers one day decide they have outgrown their preference for a single reserve currency. |
|
It's even more excessive than a bunch of City investment bankers on a grouse shoot. |
|
Capital hedging has been identified as one of the biggest areas of concern by foreign bankers. |
|
They are the unelected bankers, media barons and industry chiefs who control the crucial levers of power. |
|
But it was the constant stream of limos waiting to spirit bankers home from their Park Avenue offices that had particularly raised Dimon's ire. |
|
The rot continued, and the managers were eventually replaced with bankers friendly with the corporate heads. |
|
The network, including bankers, security dealers, and insurers, mobilized very quickly. |
|
The prospect of anti-capitalist mobilisations pushed the Swiss bankers to abandon sharp suits and dress down. |
|
Meanwhile, investment bankers salivate at the mountain of asset-backed securities created. |
|
He made the comments before leaving for Tokyo to attend Saturday's meeting of finance ministers and central bankers. |
|
The bankers who helped to launch the deal confidently predicted that the shares would trade a premium to net asset value. |
|
|
What might shareholders, bankers, and staff lose financially if the firm folded? |
|
These bankers, and the interests they are associated with, control the Republican and Democratic Party election machines. |
|
What are we waiting for to tell the bankers to take a hike and become financially autonomous? |
|
The U.S. boom has softened a bit lately, easing some of the pressure on central bankers in both countries to hurry up and raise rates. |
|
At the same meeting on September 15, the bankers rejected the proposal to move up the limits for drawing cash from automatic teller machines. |
|
For days at a time, a CEO must schlepp from city to city, pitching his or her company to skeptical investment bankers. |
|
Of more interest to central bankers will be core inflation figures next Friday, which the institution watches closely. |
|
Finnish bankers forecast that the outgoing markka will be overtaken by euro as the most used currency by the beginning of next week. |
|
This led in 1881 to the incorporation of a privately owned company financed by industrialists and bankers with headquarters in Montreal. |
|
Investment bankers spend millions on artists' lofts in scruffy, but fashionable parts of town. |
|
He began meeting bankers and fund managers and mastered the workings of our financial sector. |
|
And it was not just the industrialists, bankers and media moguls who benefited. |
|
He supplied Glasgow coffee houses where the stockbrokers and bankers met to talk business and read the journals of the day. |
|
Licensed stock brokers, bankers, and gambling-casino employees can all be checked by their employers as well. |
|
City professionals include Lloyd's of London insurance men, financial PRs, lawyers and accountants as well as bankers and fund managers. |
|
Also on Monday, 25 Jackson accountants, lawyers, bankers and managers will meet to discuss the star's business affairs. |
|
The frank talk focuses on profit, healthy food, markets, marketing, progressive management, and bankers. |
|
The bankers on the other side of the table, Eliza and Franklin, chuckle good-naturedly. |
|
If they did, shrewd, at perhaps not so shrewd, punters would immediately name Newry Town's match as one of their bankers for a score draw. |
|
These businesses will struggle on, until their bankers or their owners become fed up of throwing good money after bad. |
|
|
Dry goods dealers, general merchandisers, bankers, wholesalers, and hoteliers all make appearances in Wills' story, albeit briefly. |
|
The majority of Indo-Fijians who left following the coup were shop owners and other retail merchants and bankers. |
|
New markets could also be found among those profiting most from industrialisation, not just manufacturers, but traders, merchants and bankers. |
|
Since bankers can't guarantee a humongous first-day jump, professional investors are exercising more caution. |
|
Bemused onlookers were even more surprised when they saw central bankers dishing out free champagne and hot toddies to their shivering customers. |
|
Even so, bankers are all too aware of the notorious fragility of their sector. |
|
You have investment bankers standing by to grease the skids and take their cut. |
|
Could it be that a trade association run by bankers would adopt a military strategy of its own? |
|
Soon after a brokerage house picked up coverage on the company, the broker's bankers approached the treasurer with a new financing vehicle. |
|
With the export trade expanding, shippers, bankers and insurance companies also jostled with each other on the trading floor. |
|
Football has never featured massively in the lives of this hard-working city of bankers, real estate moguls and shopaholics. |
|
Central bankers are now more the observers of international finance rather than the controllers of it. |
|
Among them could often be found the American consul general, tycoons, bankers and even opium-dealers. |
|
They called people they didn't know, met with bankers, and shook every money tree in the forest until they closed the deal. |
|
It is clearly the bosses, the bankers, the stockbrokers and the generals who are driving the budgetary process. |
|
A benign interpretation is that financial markets now have unbounded faith in central bankers to keep inflation down in the longer term. |
|
It began with individual bankers and advisers giving way to multilateral agencies. |
|
Former spend-happy bankers, executives and traders are counting their dimes and travelling economy class. |
|
When my banker boyfriend came to London, he hung out with other bankers, or accountants and lawyers. |
|
The investment bankers behind the deals bridle at being portrayed as fast-buck artists. |
|
|
His butler bosses him, and he spends all day dictating boring letters to other bankers and presiding at soporific board meetings. |
|
Investment bankers fear that with no possibility of IPOs scene perking up in near future, the fee accrual on this account will be minimal. |
|
Some investment bankers exacted kickbacks and other quid pro quos from clients who got shares. |
|
The bankers told us it was a fantastic opportunity to create a separate entity, spin it off, and make lots of money. |
|
The law should not impose too burdensome an obligation on bankers, which hampers the effective transacting of banking business unnecessarily. |
|
They watched in wonder as bankers, industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches. |
|
It is so lucrative for investment bankers, fund managers and brokers that none have any interest in upsetting the apple cart. |
|
Tight haircuts for bootboy bankers and existing shareholders could be the order of the day. |
|
There isn't much call for investment bankers in Whistler, so John decided he'd better start a small business. |
|
We have come a long way from the days when central bankers relied primarily on obfuscation and mystique. |
|
More and more moneyed Americans, from oilmen to bankers and film directors, are pouring funds into new vineyards and wineries. |
|
When investment bankers and airline stewardesses dream of chucking it all to become candy artisans, this is the chocolate they dream of making. |
|
Now, the smaller firms are fighting back by picking up laid-off bankers from big firms or entering partnerships. |
|
Companies' accounts were misleading, their auditors conniving, their lawyers conspiring, their bankers inept. |
|
Can't quite face the serried ranks of lilac-tulle-clad duchesses and hordes of merchant bankers being corporately entertained? |
|
And the central bankers of the world and their political henchmen are surely taking advantage of that fact. |
|
The worst enemies of gold are obviously the world's top bankers and their law-making political henchmen. |
|
In other words, relying on the continued stupidity of central bankers is not the most tenable investment thesis. |
|
Eventually the bankers built themselves a chairlift, opened the mountain to the public, and called it Stowe, after the nearby town. |
|
His father and grandfather, investment bankers at old white-shoe firms, both had high reputations, but erosion soon set in. |
|
|
Meanwhile, the world's central bankers have been trained to focus exclusively on inflation. |
|
Our central bankers responded by hitting the panic button, provoking an abrupt and dramatic change in market perceptions. |
|
Economists and bankers say an increase in the prime rate will not hurt the economy. |
|
The two have since clashed frequently over his spending to recruit top bankers. |
|
Because investment bankers are paid very well I was and am in no immediate danger of starving, but life was and is complicated. |
|
This is done usually at the behest of central bankers who are still somewhat perplexingly attached to strong currencies at all costs. |
|
But the current impasse arose because of the unorthodox way in which the bankers covered their own backs. |
|
I didn't mean to imply that money deposited in a bank was simply collecting lint in the pockets of bankers. |
|
The report is scathing about the financial incontinence of bankers and consumers but complacent about regulatory failures. |
|
The company's level of indebtedness has now become a major issue for its bankers. |
|
At the same time, international central bankers recognized the benefits of, and were committed to, a balanced global system. |
|
For it has long been apparent that central bankers everywhere must like inflating the currency, during working hours at any rate. |
|
Tensions inside the firm mounted as some of the firm's white-shoe bankers worried that CEO Purcell would grasp at any deal. |
|
It's a system that locks together the interests of venture capitalists, bankers, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, much like Japan's keiretsu. |
|
It is said that even the bankers, known as the gnomes of Zurich because of the mounds of gold stored in underground vaults, have to relax. |
|
The move came after bankers said the company, which has its main operations in South Africa, was in default on its credit facility. |
|
Rich people still get professional bankers, competent and dressed in wool, to count their money out to them. |
|
The top bankers and their top legal firms are all part of a very deliberate and witting money laundering apparatus. |
|
Treasury officials say better tools and communication between probers and bankers will overcome the objections. |
|
We bankers are a conservative lot, we tend to look on the black side. |
|
|
It is believed that the company's bankers have insisted that it urgently restructure its debt as a condition for securing their continuing support. |
|
He also brought on board bankers who could help finance his schemes but things did not go well and he was soon penniless and having to borrow money. |
|
It is seeking to hire from Dublin investment banking professionals, asset management bankers, corporate finance, and project and trade finance experts. |
|
Yet that kind of balanced lending is something which bankers who operate without market signals have yet to show much finesse for without clear direction from above. |
|
Kings and dictators might be very good at imposing order, but as early bankers learned the hard was they can't be trusted to pay back their debts. |
|
He called on regulators to pass new rules that would preclude analysts from accompanying bankers to pitch corporate clients or participating in investor roadshows. |
|
Moreover, analysts can no longer join investment bankers on sales pitches to potential corporate clients or on roadshows to help market new shares. |
|
The white-shoe firm is cutting back on bankers and traders, and doubling down on the old-fashioned brokerage business. |
|
Conseco has no investment bankers, legal counsel, commercial bankers, or consultants doing business with the company on its board, nor are there any interlocking directorates. |
|
They will be able to invite mobile bankers to their homes and offices. |
|
The economic collapse in this sprawling nation was caused by international bankers and speculators who shoved billions into high-risk, get-rich-quick schemes there. |
|
The piece of the plan that is reminiscent of a Walter Mitty escapade relates to the proposal to recruit 200 business bankers in Britain within three years. |
|
She's a plain-spoken pol from Toledo who wants to put Wall Street bankers behind bars. |
|
This report is now circulating all over the Arab world to the right people, including the Middle East Arab central bankers, the sheiks, the money manager advisors, etc. |
|
Lawyers and bankers all over America were careful not to get on the bad side of the big boys from New York, who could cut them in on lucrative business. |
|
Around me in the East Stand upper tier are an assortment of senior company directors, bankers, hedge-fund managers, and, curiously, quite a few mini-cab drivers. |
|
However, the nip in the air is nothing compared to the chill in the heart of Ebenezer, surviving partner of Scrooge and Marley, private merchant bankers and moneylenders. |
|
A procession of central bankers and finance ministers issued soothing words, united in their confidence that the prospects for the global economy remained good. |
|
In a city teeming with bankers, actuaries, brokers and insurance men, the manner in which you invest your savings is a subject of endless fascination. |
|
Many of the ground staff are ex-military, but the board has a number of merchant bankers and there's a sprinkling of journalists, police, former UN staffers and aid workers. |
|
|
The company, which now specialises in the manufacture and distribution of personal care and cosmetic products, has been under the heel of its bankers for some time now. |
|
There's great ceremony to the final act of purchase, with sellers, buyers, bankers, lawyers and agents all meeting in a notary's office to sign the deed. |
|
There were discussions with potential partners aided by merchant bankers. |
|
This means selling it off to merchant bankers and hedge fund speculators. |
|
The callowness now on display goes a long way toward explaining why politicians and the media are held in public esteem somewhere above child molesters and below bankers. |
|
He is not the first person to be sacked for missing targets and to walk out with a fat cheque, but what the bankers really disliked was the cut of his jib. |
|
Many excelled in school, married, worked their way through college, raised children, joined the army, and became farmers, bankers, and politicians. |
|
It's hard to believe, but investment bankers, venture capitalists, and merchant bankers have been suffering from low self-esteem over the past few years. |
|
If all that Scotland's new-economy tyros want to do is ape the customs and mores of Scotland's bankers, actuaries, accountants and lawyers, God help us all. |
|
With the fiscal crisis, more people are willing to listen to tales about colluding bankers trying to undermine capitalism. |
|
The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us. |
|
I do know, however, my offspring and others consider me to be in my dotage but in my many years until now, a bankers draft was considered as good as solid gold. |
|
Now we're going to be taken over by bankers, financiers and accountants. |
|
Disbursal of advances, particularly house and car loans, appears to have become a priority for bankers, who are now willing to reach out to public more aggressively. |
|
Last week, big newspaper companies, broadcast media conglomerates, and their lawyers and brokers and bankers and boards, had all lined up the next big media buying frenzy. |
|
The opening race of the meeting, which began to the sound of the famous Cheltenham cheer, was won by Brave Inca, one of the Irish bankers of the meeting. |
|
At that rate, bankers and expense account diners only need apply. |
|
It has been prepared by top bankers as well as technical specialists from ten Chinese research institutes, universities and non-governmental organizations. |
|
At the heart of the multibillion-dollar crisis are two highflying bankers who some say took the country for a ride. |
|
I'd read in a book once of people who were less intimidated by bankers who wore regular clothes and made house calls, even though they were scamming their clients. |
|
|
Regulars are a combination of young trendies, moneyed bankers and bohemian artists and musicians, the kind of eclectic mix that makes for great bar side banter. |
|
It's full of post-work bankers, lawyers and hipsters in suits and polo necks, most of them checking out the beauties sipping glasses of Graves and Chablis by the bar. |
|
I'm betting that the bankers will, for the most part double down. |
|
But investment bankers aren't high-fiving each other just yet. |
|
Given the insatiable appetite for apps, some bankers believe they must embrace the mobile option. |
|
Economists, bankers, and executives equated ad men with sideshow barkers, while scientists considered psychologists no better than fortune-tellers. |
|
Stockbrokers, investment bankers, and lawyers circled around the honeypot, each seeking to get their hands on a lucrative contract to do their bit in warming up the markets. |
|
We have been acting as bankers and managers to public issues. |
|
Rather than higher inflation, tumbling oil prices point to reduced price pressure and more room for manoeuvre for central bankers. |
|
At the time this prospectus was issued, was it still in contemplation that working capital would come from loan finance provided by outside bankers? |
|
Its economy was rich, with the presence of several Tuscan bankers, including Agostino Chigi, who was a friend of Raphael and a patron of arts. |
|
But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year. |
|
Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers. |
|
The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards. |
|
The revenues from the customs duty were handled by the Riccardi, a group of bankers from Lucca in Italy. |
|
The Genoese bankers provided the unwieldy Habsburg system with fluid credit and a dependably regular income. |
|
Typical such individuals include senior company executives, bankers, lawyers, business owners and international recording artists. |
|
It was established to act as the English Government's banker and is still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom. |
|
On 18 March 2008, Reuters reported that American bankers Citigroup and JP Morgan would finance the deal with a USD 3 billion loan. |
|
Messrs Wright, the bankers of Nottingham, recommended that Richard Arkwright apply to Strutt and Need for finance for his cotton spinning mill. |
|
|
Working with bankers in the City, the government raised large loans during wartime and paid them off in peacetime. |
|
In secrecy he also developed a plan with a consortium of Nantes privateers, funded by exiled Scots bankers and pawning of his mother's jewelry. |
|
Central bankers target a low inflation rate because they believe deflation endangers the economy. |
|
Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers called in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay. |
|
In 1931 Hoover urged bankers to set up the National Credit Corporation so that big banks could help failing banks survive. |
|
But bankers were reluctant to invest in failing banks, and the National Credit Corporation did almost nothing to address the problem. |
|
Significant monies are wasted each week as bankers leave taxis outside, waiting on the clock, while they finish their lunches. |
|
Even the National Provincial Bank, the Company's bankers, believed that he had outserved his time. |
|
Also to instill fear of God in stout-hearted men and Asian bankers. |
|
Although this was the orthodox macroeconomic prescription at the time, the resulting stagflation surprised economists and central bankers. |
|
The Bank of Amsterdam started operations in 1609, acting as a full service bank for Dutch merchant bankers and as a reserve bank. |
|
The Egyptian government of Viceroy Isma'il took out substantial loans from European bankers and stock exchanges. |
|
Florentine bankers financed the English kings during the Hundred Years War. |
|
The fact that the Medici were bankers to the pope also contributed to their ascendancy. |
|
Florentine bankers financed Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese explorers who pioneered the route around Africa to India and the Far East. |
|
Southern cotton factors, planters and bankers visited so often that they had favorite hotels. |
|
It had disbanded its national bank, and private bankers in the Northeast were opposed to the war. |
|
For most Americans, big bonuses and corporate jets and office remodelings become a kind of stand-in for the real sins of the bankers. |
|
In the middle of the 13th century, Venetian bankers began to trade in government securities. |
|
Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians. |
|
|
The bipartisan panel will chide and scold the naughty bankers. |
|
The economy melts down because of something a bunch of crooked bankers do. |
|
Trouble is, being bankers, they placed your hard-earned cash on a clapped-out old nag heading for the knacker's yard and not the winning post. |
|
The company said that it has appointed two senior bankers, Steve Aube and James McHale. |
|
It's definitely not the scot-free bankers and the Royal Mailprivatising Tory larcenists. |
|
Barclays Plc Chairman, David Walker, said that it has become the 'political and media industry' of badmouthing banks and bankers. |
|
Bearing in mind the mess that Britain is in, due in large part to the actions of bankers, that kind of reward continues to beggar belief. |
|
Michael, for the City Service, we had three hundred senior bankers, liverymen, and the Lord Mayor of London in the congregation. |
|
God bless investment bankers, Lord And those who keep their loot abroad And let us selflessly applaud When they receive their bonus hoard. |
|
And if there are no so-called Meade bankers this year, it is probably no bad thing. |
|
Serengeti Asset Management LP, a New York-based hedge-fund firm, has announced that it has hired two new bankers from Goldman Sachs. |
|
So, come the euro day a bunch of merchant bankers sit down to negotiate the entry of Cyprus into the eurozone. |
|
The conference will be attended by early stage startups, technophiles, students, investors, bankers and government officials. |
|
Conference attendees range from early stage startups, technophiles, students, investors, bankers and government officials. |
|
The CEO of Barclays Plc has said that bankers need to regain their moral compass. |
|
With so much pain inflicted on so many it's surely time the shameless bankers stopped lining their pockets in cloud-cuckoo-land. |
|
Indeed, the general manager has captured the global financial zeitgeist-an unhealthy codependence between investors and their central bankers. |
|
When the Bank System was opened up to commercial banks in late 1989, it was somewhat of an unknown to bankers. |
|
They have battled for years, with bankers complaining that credit unions are serving ever-larger segments of the population but not paying taxes. |
|
Prior to April 2000, venture capitalists and investment bankers drove the Internet economy. |
|
|
Scotland needs to be founded as a republic with its own constitution and do its very best to keep the globalist bankers out of the country. |
|
While GUS shareholders were pleased with the deal, City bankers were livid. |
|
Earlier, bankers had objected to a 2003 attempt by the CU to purchase the t troubled Hawkeye State Bank. |
|
Ferdinand isn't any old polemist complaining about the bankers, the aristocracy, all those at the top. |
|
The list of fresh Tory peers includes tycoons, investment bankers, Hooray Henries and Lord Snootys. |
|
Pret, famous for its preservative-free, fresh food, is said to be in preliminary talks with its bankers. |
|
As a result of this price inelasticity, increasingly mortgage bankers have looked to loan size to maximize their per-transaction profits. |
|
He must resolve lingering cultural friction between traders and Goldman's client-oriented investment bankers. |
|
The investment bankers canvassed their institutional brokers to assess interest in your stock. |
|
That is now under control, with two new investment bankers on board, and Raines expects completed financing shortly. |
|
High-powered London bankers are injecting Botox to stop looking all frowny and stressed after working regular 18-hour days. |
|
It came after Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield unleashed an f-word rant about greedy Irish bankers during the Welsh rockers' performance at Punchestown. |
|
Levine was the first in a line of investment bankers and traders brought down by insider trading charges in what was to become the scandal of all Wail Street scandals. |
|
Barclays Plc has appointed new investment bankers to the company. |
|
In making these allocations, taxpayers are required to conduct a detailed analysis of the various activities the investment bankers performed and to gather supporting records. |
|
Forensic teams conducted a fingertip search of the dealer's home in Tower St George's Wharf where neighbours include Premier League footballers and city bankers. |
|
Does that mean he will make the fat cats and the bankers compensate those people and businesses who have suffered losses because of the recent riots? |
|
The conference goal is to bring together top cryptographers, data-security specialists, and scientists with economists, bankers, implementers, and policy makers. |
|
In a speech that was delivered in Singapore, Carney said it is time to consider whether authorities could claw back pay from bankers who had cheated the system. |
|
The new, easy-to-use, softbound guide provides bankers with advance insight into what examiners will be looking for during compliance examinations. |
|
|
In 1996, it went public under the name CB Commercial then, in 2001, it was bought by a group of investors led by Richard Blum of merchant bankers, Blum Capital partners. |
|
To begin the procedure of disinvestment, the Department of Disinvestment has called for bids for hiring merchant bankers to manage the share sale. |
|
His Long Price quartet had an Eastern flavour but this book begins a new series, The Dagger And The Coin, where bankers are just as dangerous as warriors. |
|
Although setting up a Sarawak Bank was considered, BCL became the first bankers in Sarawak, providing a banking service to both the government and the general public. |
|
The volume deals with action, admiralty, agency, agriculture, aliens, allotments, animals, arbitration, auction, bailment and bankers and banking. |
|
His foes were the most powerful he had ever encountered, including the region's most affluent families, Boston's legal establishment, and the large State Street bankers. |
|
In essence, the Genoese bankers had worked out an interest rate swap. |
|
The city of Antwerp, in the Spanish Netherlands, lay at the heart of European commerce and its bankers financed most of Charles V's and Philip II's wars on credit. |
|
London bankers were too small to operate on that scale, and Antwerp had a highly efficient bourse that itself attracted rich bankers from around Europe. |
|
The Medicis were not only bankers but innovators in financial accounting. |
|
Smallwood dropped his youthful socialism and collaborated with bankers, and became hostile to the militant unions that sponsored numerous strikes. |
|
For tax evaders and those playing the angles, a network of accountants, lawyers and bankers is ready to set up shell companies and phony trusts to hide behind. |
|
Are we bankers or e-traders, bottom feeders or commoditizers? |
|
From around 1274, her estates were being managed by Adam de Stratton, a notorious moneylender, in association with the Riccardi family of Lucca as her bankers. |
|
Goldsmiths and jewellers, dealing with precious materials and often doubling as bankers, belonged to powerful guilds and had considerable status, often holding civic office. |
|
Thus, as a currency becomes less stable, or its economy becomes less dominant, bankers may over time abandon it for a currency issued by a larger or more stable economy. |
|
Marshall notes the British went into partnership with Indian bankers and raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation. |
|
William's decision to grant the Royal Charter in 1694 to the Bank of England, a private institution owned by bankers, is his most relevant economic legacy. |
|
British merchants, shippers and bankers developed overwhelming advantage over those of other nations allowing the UK to dominate international trade in the 19th century. |
|
Genoese bankers also profited from loans to the new nobility of Sicily. |
|
|
It is the only way to prevent a new episode of massive indebtment by them, and to show to the general public that you have some credibility to deal with bankers. |
|