Mario Draghi, ancien Président de Goldman Sachs Europe, prend aujourd'hui la présidence de la Banque centrale européenne. Il présidait la banque d'affaires américaine au moment où celle-ci, dans les années 2000, aidait la Grèce à maquiller ses comptes pub
Början av december, 2010. "På EU:s toppmöte den 28 oktober uppges Tysklands förbundskansler Angela Merkel ha flaggat för att Tyskland har börjat fundera på att överge EMU. ”Om det här är den klubb som euron verkar utvecklas till kanske Tyskland borde dra
by Prem Sikka Friday, March 18th, 2011 "Financial enterprises should be subjected to the freedom of information laws so that we can demand to see the destructive transactions and contracts and thus check the selfish impulses of executives. " "With rampant
Elmer "Once you become part of senior management," he says, "and gain international experience, as I did, then you are part of the inner circle – and things become much clearer. You are part of the plot. You know what the real products and service are, an
"Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Visa Europe and others and will not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for WikiLeaks," the bank said in a statement.
“Internationally, Delaware is an acronym. It stands for Dollars, Euros Laundered And Washed At Reasonable Expense.” states allow individuals o remain anonymous to state authorities and the public. However, most require the name and address of the compan
Björn Elmbrant: "När politiken alltså knappast kan lindra krisen alls, kom ändå amerikanska riksbanken, Federal Reserve, igår kväll till undsättning med ett gigantisk stimulanspaket för den amerikanska ekonomin. Riksbanken ska under ett år köpa upp statsp
Novembre 2009: "La faillite de Lehman prit un caractère systémique parce que cette banque d’investissement était massivement refinancée par le système bancaire classique. Ne faut-il pas rétablir des cloisons étanches ? Ne doit-on pas, dans une version m
"Den lokalt skapade valutan stannar i den lokala ekonomin . Där finns den alltid tillgänglig. Vanliga pengar däremot, som sätts in på bank, återinvesteras mycket sällan i det område de kommer från."
Mr Alvaro also stressed that the agreement will not cover financial transactions between EU states but only those to non-EU countries. Article 4 of the accord rules out transfers of any data relating to the Single Euro Payments Area. The compromise was b
"I can tell you the 'Terrorism Finance Tracking Program' (TFTP) provided support to the Norwegian investigation of that al Qaeda threat," under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Stuart Levey told Brussels journalists in a conference call
Publicerad: 15 juni 2010, EU-kommissionen sade i dag ja till Cecilia Malmströms nya Swiftavtal. Avtalet är ombearbetat sedan EU-parlamentet avslog det i februari – men många kontroversiella delar finns fortfarande kvar. Bland annat kan USA lagra bankup
G20 Finance ministers and central bankers meet in Busan, Korea on June 4-5 ... Their leaders have agreed that banks should be made to pay for bailing out the sector in a future crisis so they can no longer believe they are "too big to fail" or that taxpay
Cyclos is open source online banking software for complementary currency systems like Barter networks and exchange systems as C3 (commerce and consumer circuit) that are introduced in order to stimulate the circulation and the availability of credit in re
Praise in Columbia Journalism Review for article by Lucy Komisar et alios in Miami Herald 2009 on Alle Stanford Ponzi Scheme (phony certified deposits). For this article, Lucy Komisar later won thef National Headliner Award, second place for Business
The single day record for gross-value settlement, set on 19 Mar 2008, stands at US$ 10.3 trillion, for 1,113,464 payment instructions. A key feature of CLS is the settlement of gross-value instructions with multi-lateral net funding. On average, CLS netti
By Lucy Komisar Inter Press Service (IPS) – Feb 3, 201 The global bank HSBC may be running offshore accounts for central banks. According to a U.S. Senate investigation, an HSBC subsidiary in London called HSBC Equator Bank had a sister bank in the Baham
About: "The Forum for Stable Currencies was co-founded by Lord Sudeley and Sabine K McNeill. It was the result of Lord Sudeley trying to get justice for two incidents in his family of unique notoriety: Lloyd’s bank had made his great-grandfather bankrupt
by Hans-Jurgen Schlamp 27 nov 2009: As part of the war on terror, American intelligence services have been monitoring European bank transactions since 2001. When the EU found out about it in 2006, they were outraged. But now it looks like the bloc will ag
The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU justice and interior minister are apparently keen agree a deal as soon as possible, on
Greg Palast intervjews Lamy and Martin Khor in Geneva. "GREG PALAST: But we got our hands on a document you certainly won’t find on the WTO website; something very confidential: a secret demand of the European Union and USA, leaning on emerging nations to
"... a nation-wide network of more than 200 food banks and food rescue organizations that serve virtually every county in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. It is the nation's leading hunger-relief charity, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The
Europeiska matbanker i 17 länder samlade förra året in nära 280 000 ton mat till behövande. Mat som var på väg från livsmedelsbranchen mot soptippen eftersom bäst-före datum närmade sig. Men i Sverige finns inga matbanker, här slänger istället livsmedels
"If the G-20 fails to deliver, is it really possible that we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes with regard to building up vulnerabilities in our financial system? Amazingly, the answer is yes. How can this happen, with so many smart people in governm
Compiles information about current exhibitions, guided tours and events at museums, palaces and memorials in Berlin, as well as providing useful tips and news.
Wenn Banken, und die Menschen, die hinter Ihnen stehen, demokratische Prozesse beeinflussen, entsteht die Frage, ob Geldautomaten Kundenseitig im demokratischen Prozess nutzbar sind.
by Philip S Golub
a slow shift towards a tripolar world monetary system no longer exclusively centred in the West
Despite worries over the end of the Chinese economic miracle and harder times because of the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis, global rebalancing is happening — and quickly. The International Monetary Fund's executive board announced on 30 November that the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB) or yuan, would soon be included in the basket of currencies that make up its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), beside the US dollar, the euro, the British pound and the yen. The decision recognised (...)
Mit TTIP wollen die großen Konzerne ganz früh an Gesetzen mitschreiben, sagt Max Bank von LobbyControl. Möglichst noch bevor die Parlamente informiert sind.
"Italy represents a case where for a variety of historical reasons — and perhaps marketing — among the bondholders there appear to be a lot of ordinary individuals. If that is the case, which it appears to be, when you make them bear the cost you are really going after depositors, like happened in Cyprus, which I think the consensus was was a bad idea.
"A rule that works most of the time, that you ought to let the bondholders bear the cost looks like it may not be the right rule for Italy."
Stiglitz: "This is a case where I think the European rigidity may have very high costs both for democracy and for Italy, and for in the end, if there’s a referendum, the future of the eurozone."
By Leila Ueberschlag, October 27, 2016 at 9:51 am.
Since 2012, 15MpaRato, an organized citizen collective based in Barcelona, has been uncovering some of the largest corruption cases that are shaking Spanish politics since the 2008 financial crisis, and is a good example of fighting the impunity of financial corruption.
A currency war has been declared, ensuring that the U.S. dollar, Euro, Yen and many other state currencies are linked in a suicide pact. Printing money and endlessly expanding debt are policies that will erode the underlying value of every dollar in people’s wallets, as well as digital funds in their bank accounts. This new war operates in the shadows of the public’s ignorance, slowly undermining social and economic stability through inflation and other consequences of central control. As the Federal Reserve leads the rest of the world’s central banks down the rabbit hole, the vortex it’s creating will affect everyone in the globalized economy
Reuters , By Jemima Kelly | LONDON, Sept 29, 2015
Thirteen top banks, including HSBC and Deutsche Bank, have joined a consortium led by financial tech firm R3 that is working on a framework for using blockchain technology in markets, a spokesman for the firm said on Tuesday.
Facebook, Amazon, Alipay and others cut out banks in providing payment services
February 14, 2017
by: Madhumita Murgia and Martin Arnold
"Last October, the Central Bank of Ireland added an unexpected company to its roster of digital payment providers — Facebook Payments International Limited. The licence it granted authorised Facebook to provide basic financial services, such as electronic money transfers, to all citizens of the EU. "“What percentage of bank revenues will come from payments and interchange in 10 years? My bet is it will be a lot smaller than today, because of online services like Ant Financial’s Alipay. That’s a fact of life for banks,” said Mr Parker. “They can either resist it or get on board and exploit it to sell additional services and products.”
Trump's bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack
A city guide to divestment
Divesting from producers of controversial weapons: a guide for local authorities
More and more people are moving to cities. The growing trend towards urbanization means that the traditional role of Mayors and City Councils is expanding. To protect their citizens, municipal leaders must embrace a wide range of approaches towards securing their cities. This new reality is reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
ICAN and PAX’s latest Don’t Bank on the Bomb Report:“Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers” exposes the financial institutions making $685 billion available to the nuclear weapon producing companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman and Leonardo, and shows how divestment is seriously shaking up the industry.
The EU Council formalised its position on the European digital identity at the Telecom Council meeting on Tuesday (6 December).
The European digital identity is intended to create a public version of digital wallets in each member state that can be used to identify, authenticate or verify certain aspects such as age in any other EU country.
These wallets will take the form of apps for smartphones. In the digital sphere, the EU’s ambition is to compete with the identification systems currently offered by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook.
“We are looking at a massive advancement in how people use their identity and credentials in everyday contact with both public and private entities, and in how they use digital services,” said Ivan Bartos, Czech Deputy Prime minister for digitalisation.
James Meadway , Jan 6, 2023. BlackRock thinks inflation will come down only if central banks ‘crush’ economies into a severe recession
The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse
Since Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, some commentators have been waking up to the need for a socialization of deposit-taking banking. They’re right — but the same logic leads to a more radical conclusion: a fully socialized capital market, with no private banks.
25W SOLAR FLOOD LIGHT FOR GARDEN OR BACKYARD Solar flood lights are a great way to illuminate your garden at night without having to worry about running electrical wires. They are...