Eurohypo also has a good international spread, with only a quarter of its new business coming from Germany.
"We have come top of the table because of the international spread of our business and multi-brand business model and not because of any tax initiative, " he added.
But he would point out - and his fellow directors would agree - that he is already in the bottom quartile, and probably in the bottom decile, in respect of the pay, bonuses and other longer-term incentives he receives for managing a bank of RBS's size, international spread and complexity.
"At this point the risk for international disease spread is considered low, " the consulate said.
Language, it appears, remains a persistent barrier to international marriage in Europe and the spread of English as a second language does not seem to have changed that.
Severe import restrictions led to a situation in which nearly half the gold consumed in India was contraband and the average spread between domestic and international gold prices was as high as 53%.
It added that the job losses would be spread proportionally between the US and international markets.
International donors and governments should join together to spread the good news about circumcision and make the procedure available everywhere.
At the Numismatic Club dinner, news of a theft at the New York International Numismatic Convention, held in January, spread quickly.
The modern Games could be international from the start because the British had spread standardized versions of most of the Olympic sports around the world.
He continues to set great store by development aid to further policy but he has thoughts as well on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and reforming international institutions.
ECONOMIST: The prime minister's developing view of the world
He argued there had been a "lack of detail" about the proposed bail-out plan for Greece and asked how the financial burdens would be spread between EU countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as the conditions imposed.
BBC: Gordon Brown: Tories in 'panic' over National Insurance
Skittish health officials in Saudi Arabia have worked hard to quell fears that the pilgrimage -- the biggest yearly congregation of people in the world -- will contribute to the global spread of the virus, inviting international health experts to make recommendations and screening pilgrims as they arrive.
Dominated by superpopular contemporary Western art, Christie's spread Tuesday represented work with the broadest international appeal.
When he was appointed last November, it was to restore Italy's credibility on international financial markets, whose mirror image is the spread between Italy's benchmark government bonds and their German equivalents.
In each case the Security Council, which has declared the spread of such weapons a threat to international peace and security, is implicitly or explicitly the presumed enforcer of last resort.
Asian financial crisis, the speed with which it spread, and the inadequacy of existing international institutions to deal with it have led to wide-ranging debate about the need for a new international financial architecture.
CNN: This monetary body would limit Crisis spillover effects
For instance, the choice of location and the geographic spread of activities are arguably more compound in an international context due to the multiplicity and heterogeneity of the possibilities available.
FORBES: International Business Strategy: A Journey Of Its Own
International health experts have commended China on its transparency in reporting the spread of the virus, in sharp contrast to its handling of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003, when 8, 096 people were infected worldwide and 744 died.
International Shoe has been sorely tested by the rise of multinational corporations that spread their products across the globe.
It is an international trend called yarn bombing, guerrilla knitting or urban knitting that has spread around the world in the last decade.
Lack of needle exchange programs has curbed efforts to combat the spread of the disease, says Annabel Kanabus, director of international AIDS charity AVERT.
China's state-run news agency Xinhua said the country's State Council decided to repeal the ban after realizing it did little to prevent the spread of disease and caused problems when the country was hosting international events.
It took only a matter of months for the financial meltdown in 2008 to spread to the real economy, which prompted an overnight crash in international trade volumes, as production orders were terminated, shutting down operations throughout supply chains across the globe.
FORBES: Economists Ignore the Facts in Supporting Chinese Currency Legislation
In 1982 a rumor spread that Walesa was to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and international journalists descended on his apartment in Gdansk, to be there when the Nobel was announced.
FORBES: Behind Every Great Man Is the Mother of His Children. One of Them Finally Comes Out.
But foes of globalization say that what actually gets spread around is worker exploitation, and they're calling loudly for international controls on sweatshops, child labor and other ill effects of the rush for cheap labor.
Instead of focusing on jobs lost to the globalisation of information technology, Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics in Washington looks at globalisation's power to reduce prices and so help spread new technology, new practices and job-creating investment through the economy.
This data is being used to enable residents to spread the latest details related to local safety and to get the facts out to international media outlets.
FORBES: Learning About Internet Freedom from Despots and Drug Dealers
Interest in ETFs has spread to all assets classes, including: U.S. stocks and bonds, international stocks and bonds, commodities, and currencies.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Barnaby Mason says UK officials expect a statement to come out of the summit identifying terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as the pre-eminent threat to international security.
应用推荐