Such transactions would circumvent standard taxation and limit the state's capacity to raise revenue and fund services.
Most bonds are traded not on exchanges but over-the-counter, and data on such transactions are not always available.
Not surprisingly, this has a chilling effect on the feasibility of such transactions.
Even if it is, the committee has scarcely ever turned down such transactions.
Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase see about 9% and 8% of their total consolidated revenue come from such transactions.
When concerns are expressed about such implications, CFIUS has a 90-day period to examine the national security ramifications of such transactions.
Does he believe that such transactions are without consequence for Western security?
In most wealthy countries, even cash-obsessed Germany, such transactions are done by bank-to-bank transfer, direct debit or, at a minimum, by cheque.
Meanwhile Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase see about 9% and 8% of their total consolidated revenue come from such transactions.
Just as you and I would use a broker to conduct such transactions, the Fed does its buying and selling through pre-approved so-called primary broker-dealers.
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But advance bookings may grow, thanks to a boom in start-ups competing to become the prime online aggregator of such transactions, such as GetYourGuide and Zozi.
Between January 2006 and April 2008 there were 1.2 million such transactions, in which 18.5 billion shares were bought and 16.2 billion shares sold across 9, 300 firms.
Two recently approved joint ventures reveal some of the serious risks involved in such transactions and highlight the present shortcomings in the U.S. government's approach to their review.
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Customers were shocked at the outrageous fees for such transactions.
The Fed needs to approve all such transactions and this one is getting caught up in larger issue of how and when banks should be able to increase dividends.
The argument that countries holding SWFs will have too great an economic interest to use such transactions as anything beyond furthering their own economic interest does not hold water.
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The second bit of bad news is that the cost for banks of trading in Italian government bonds rose, because an organisation that clears and settles such transactions, LCH.
The U.S. and the European Union have shut down the use of the financial system for Iranian crude trade by imposing sanctions, which have discouraged banks from allowing such transactions.
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The ability to charge more for credit cards is likely to set up a tricky dance for merchants, which may risk angering customers if they start charging more for such transactions.
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They will have to assess whether such transactions fall under the 'related party transaction' provisions of the FFP regulations and if so, what the fair value of the transaction really is.
He added that Visa's practices of not allowing use of rival currency conversion systems at merchant outlets also meant that retailers were denied opportunity to share the revenue arising from such transactions.
While such transactions (conducted as part of a merger or through a subsidiary) are legal and thus somewhat easier to audit, far more secretive and as a result threatening are transactions peppered with illegality.
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Assessing the legality of the Bush Administration's decision to extend billions in taxpayer-underwritten credit guarantees to an obviously uncreditworthy sovereign borrower -- like Moscow center -- when the Farm Act of 1990 explicitly prohibits such transactions.
Merchants issue a refund in an amount equaling the full purchase price when an item is returned, but the retailer may be taking a loss on such transactions because card processing fees are not refunded when transactions are reversed.
International equity investment managers long complained to me that the foreign exchange arrangements my public pension clients entered into with their custodians, which forced external money managers to settle such transactions with the custodian resulted in poor execution and diminished international equity performance.
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But although adding an extra identity check to such financial transactions improves security, doesn't it also add complexity and inconvenience?
Shareholders of common stock would flex their right to inspect the books, and even bring suit on behalf of the corporation if such McCourt transactions were consummated.
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