In 1995, the London finance house of Barings collapsed after huge losses run up in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson.
In place of stock trading for a finance house he was now teaching stock trading, in classes he had organised and marketed via Eventbrite.
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An intelligence officer was asked to look into allegations that interior ministry officials had laundered kickbacks from the sale of frigates to Taiwan through a Luxembourg-based finance house, Clearstream.
How come the new chairman of Turkey's largest state bank, Ziraat, is Zeki Sayin, who worked under Mr Erdogan during his days as mayor of Istanbul, and later became head of an Islamic finance house?
They have the power and moxie to get the imprimatur of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees on tax reform this year.
Our bad behavior spending spree was gleefully enabled by a wallet full of credit cards and bankers ever so happy to endlessly re-finance your house for amounts exceeding its market value.
The Fed is opposed to a measure in the House finance bill that would give Congress's investigative arm the power to audit its decisions.
After that, the Senate will be out of session much of the time, and when senators are in town, Democrats will be in no mood to help McCain finance his White House bid.
The new House Finance Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and the new Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) aim this year to rewrite lending laws to establish new consumer protections and stricter rules for loans made to subprime (that is, not very creditworthy) borrowers.
So driven was he to make this movie that he mortgages his house to finance the project.
Afshin Nabavi, head of trading at trading house MKS Finance, said gold prices should continue to rise, although stay in a range.
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The top Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, which have jurisdiction over trade policy, have supported fast-track renewal, with reservations.
Democrats have for months decried the House campaign finance probe as partisan, overly broad, unproductive and duplicative of one recently completed by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
The court was told by Jonathan Smith, a finance office at the House of Lords, that 90% of peers claimed expenses and of that 90%, 85% claimed the maximum amount.
There appears to be some support for gold at the lower levels, said Afshin Nabavi, head of trading at trading house MKS Finance, who also expects gold to trade in the current range and test the upper boundaries.
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The White House hosted personal finance sites in April and also last year.
About one-in-five people use these kinds of mechanisms to finance everything from buying a house to cashing their checks.
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But we finally passed a good campaign finance reform bill through the House.
And according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance information, the White House is traditionally the biggest government supplier of lobbyists.
Even while Ms Merkel was getting the words she wanted from the White House, her finance minister was openly pitching that Greece needed fresh aid.
There will be the usual statement from the Leader of the House, Andrew Lansley setting out the Commons agenda for the coming week, and then it's back to the committee of the whole House on the Finance Bill.
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, in testimony to the House of Representatives finance committee, laid the blame at the feet of federal regulators and ratings agencies, who failed to stop the growth of the subprime mortgage bubble before it got out of control.
In 1977 a congressional seat opened up and Pruzan began organizing a Raines campaign. instead, Raines took a job in the Carter White House that included his first stint at OMB. when Carter lost, Raines went to work, making millions of dollars, first as a partner doing municipal finance at the Manhattan investment house Lazard Freres.
Finance Minister and Leader of the House Jane Hutt AM supported the committee's recommendations to take forward a framework for action across Wales.
Finance Minister and Leader of the House Jane Hutt AM faced AMs questions on issues relating to her ministerial department, on 23 November 2011.
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, predicted Sunday there would be a House vote on campaign finance reform no later than "the middle of February, " and he predicted victory.
Campaign finance reform was derailed in the House on Thursday when lawmakers shelved consideration of the Shays-Meehan bill -- similar to the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate -- through a procedural vote.
We're glad to see Congress mobilizing in response, including hearing plans by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus and the House Ways and Means Committee that asked the IRS about this in 2012 and received denials.
On the morning after the House vote the Senate Finance Committee's chairman Bob Packwood (R-Oregon) and its ranking minority member James Exon (D-Nebraska) told me they'd seek deficit cuts before they'd go along with tax cuts in the Senate version of the bill.
There will be no PMQs, so the next business will be a Ten Minute Rule Bill from Labour's Meg Munn to allow schools to register as Co-Ops (Industrial Provident Societies) and then it's on to committee of the whole House consideration of the Finance Bill.
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