Of course, getting an international agreement on minimum anti-laundering standards will not be an easy task.
The ICB's other headline proposal is that large British banks should have to hold bigger buffers against losses than currently proposed under Basel 3, a new international agreement on minimum capital requirements.
Over in the U.S., at least on the surface, regulators appear to be in agreement on setting minimum standards.
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The coalition agreement rejects a minimum wage, but the FDP may do a deal if the CDU accepts other priorities, including tax cuts.
The licence agreement includes delivering a minimum standard of service.
In April 2009, ACN signed an agreement to purchase a minimum of 300, 000 Ojo Vision video phones to be marketed and sold by ACN's global network of independent sales agents.
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He used the phrase "common ground" repeatedly, speaking of potential agreement on a higher minimum wage (if paired with tax cuts for small businesses) and seeing prospects for sweeping change in immigration laws and the management of Social Security.
The deal with Tewoo-ERDC is a five-year agreement that will see a minimum of 12, 000 tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate delivered to the Chinese commodity trader.
The agreement, made in September, changed the minimum cushion of capital that a bank must keep to avoid losses on their loans.
As in the Safe Harbour agreement, web firms could seek a certification that they follow certain minimum rules of consumer protection and privacy.
"The structure of this settlement agreement places moral pressure on the court to keep the fine to a minimum so that the reparation is kept at a maximum, " said Mr Justice Bean, who said he was under pressure to keep the court fine to a minimum.
For example, they could do minimum wage in short order if they wanted to and if they had an agreement but that's going to be at their discretion.
"There was an agreement between the bookies and the players that in a certain over they would give away a minimum amount of runs, " Neeraj Kumar, the chief commissioner of Delhi Police, told a news conference Thursday.
Obama announced that the U.S. will begin talks with the European Union on a trans-Atlantic trade agreement, as well as calling for increased spending to fix roads and bridges and the first increase in the minimum wage in six years.
There is an oddity at the heart of today's historic agreement by the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which for the first time will impose new minimum requirements for the amount of cash and liquid assets that banks all over the world will have to hold.
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