In the 15th century, Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, set up court in Bruges, as well as Brussels and Lille, attracting a number of artists, bankers, and other prominent personalities from all over Europe.

In an effort to present his locks over the continued usage of the Hobbs Locks, Yale contacted notable bankers and set up a live demonstration in which he successfully picked a Hobbs Lock.

Following the Wall Street panic, the government attempted to please foreign creditors by maintaining convertibility according to the money principles preached by the foreign bankers and economists who set the terms for Brazil's relations with the world economy, despite lacking any support from a single major sector in Brazilian society.

Grimes, acknowledging a potential conflict of interest that could ruin his legal practice, agrees to set up a meeting between his client and the two agents, who engage Masters by posing as bankers from Palm Springs interested in Masters ' counterfeiting services.

Colon set out to gain access to the United States coffee market, helped the local coffee growers obtain lines of credit from local bankers, and got financial help from the federal and local government for the export of the cooperative's coffee.

In 2003 exclusive licensing rights to the Sunlight brand of dish-washing detergents in Canada, Puerto Rico and the USA were sold ( along with some other Unilever brands ) to Lehman Brothers bankers, who set up Phoenix Brands for the purpose.

This theory, set out by the British engineer C. H. Douglas, was highly critical of bankers and financiers, believing that debt was being used to undermine people's rights.

Basel I is the round of deliberations by central bankers from around the world, and in 1988, the Basel Committee ( BCBS ) in Basel, Switzerland, published a set of minimum capital requirements for banks.

His sons, John and Francis Baring, set up a trading company in London, and Francis became one of the most influential bankers of his time.

While compared unfavorably to White Heat by critics, it was fairly successful at the box office, with $ 500, 000 going straight to Cagney Productions ' bankers to pay off their losses.

Although now acclaimed and widely influential as an urban design feature, Mies had to convince Bronfman's bankers that a taller tower with significant " unused " open space at ground level would enhance the presence and prestige of the building.

So-called " face – to – face " trading between buyers and sellers remains a " cornerstone " of the NYSE, with a benefit of having all of a deal's players close at hand, including investment bankers, lawyers, and accountants.

The Medici family were at the time the de facto rulers of Florence: originally bankers, they came to great wealth and power by bankrolling the monarchies of Europe.

Only later did he and other investment bankers at Drexel Burnham Lambert, followed by those of competing firms, begin organizing the issue of bonds that were speculative grade from the start.

Hill undertook to establish a monopoly of the steamboat business ; he was monopolizing coal, socializing with bankers, and buying other businesses at the same time.

The Batavian government, and its constitution, were particularly disliked by the Consul ( no friend of democracy in any case ), because of the snub that Amsterdam bankers gave in 1800 to his request for a big loan at the usual generous rate of interest the French expected as a matter of right.

After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.

Stock market bubbles frequently produce hot markets in Initial Public Offerings, since investment bankers and their clients see opportunities to float new stock issues at inflated prices.

It was fate, however, that the treasure of the basilica still pass from hand to hand as a pledge as security for loans received: in 1273 is held at the Humble of St. Agatha ( the present church Carrobiolo ) in Monza in 1311 and is engaged in some bankers that safety will transfer to Avignon.

In light of this fact, 3, 134 shares worth £ 10 each were issued at this meeting, along with the election of directors, bankers, solicitors and engineers.

students of public colleges and universities were ordered to wear western-style uniforms and businessmen, teachers, doctors, bankers, and other leaders of the new society wore suits to work and at large social functions.

With the bankers ' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in U. S. Steel at a price well above the current market.

While the research division may or may not generate revenue ( based on policies at different banks ), its resources are used to assist traders in trading, the sales force in suggesting ideas to customers, and investment bankers by covering their clients.

Writing in the Global Association of Risk Professionals, Aaron Brown, a vice president at Morgan Stanley, says " By any standard of human fairness, of course, investment bankers make obscene amounts of money.

Of particular importance is " Bagehot's Dictum ", oft cited by central bankers, it roughly states that in times of financial crisis banks should lend freely but only to solid firms and only against good collateral and at interest rates that are high enough to dissuade those borrowers that are not genuinely in need.

To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers.

The Pazzi family were not the only instigators-the Salviati, Papal bankers in Florence, were at the center of the conspiracy.

At one stage of the saga, News International was facing dismemberment at the hands of its bankers.

" Robinson's last year at the Treasury was overshadowed by a run on the banks, caused by the collapse of the City of London bankers Pole Thornton and Co. Robinson was not blamed for the collapse, but his measures to mitigate the crisis were widely seen as half-hearted.

" RMT have made it clear we expect managers to abide by the existing job security agreements and we would simply not be doing our job as a union if we allowed the tube to treat our members as cannon fodder who can be hired and fired at will ", adding that " It wasn't our members who created the downturn and we will not be bullied into accepting that they should be forced to pay for an economic crisis that was cooked up by the bankers and the politicians.

Coincidentally, on that same day, the central bankers of most of the affected countries were at the EMEAP ( Executive Meeting of East Asia Pacific ) meeting in Shanghai, and they failed to make the ' New Arrangement to Borrow ' operational.

He led a small group of wealthy London merchants and bankers as Chairman of the Llynvi Iron Company and established a large integrated ironworks at Maesteg in Glamorgan during 1845 – 6.

As described by Samuel Hammond, one of the bankers present at Yale ’ s demonstration, “ proved that the Hobbs lock is able to be picked and demonstrated it using a fake wooden key that he made .”

Three crowns also form the logo of Coutts & Co, the London based private bankers, but in this case the design comprises one crown at the top, with two below.

In his 1988 book The Age of Heretics, author Art Kleiner maintained the real reason Chrysler refused to produce the car was because bankers had threatened to recall their loans, feeling the car would destroy sales for vehicles already in the distribution channels and second-hand cars.

Two 1861 bond sales of $ 50 million each conducted through private banks went without a hitch, but bankers found the market for the 7. 3 % securities soft for a third bond issue.

As bankers, the Frescobaldi financed ventures for numerous members of European royal families, notably their financial conquest of England, which Fernand Braudel has signalled as the greatest achievement of the Florentine firms, " not only in holding the purse-strings of the kings of England, but also in controlling sales of English wool which was vital to continental workshops and in particular to the Arte della Lana of Florence.

Clairvoyants have a booming business advising Philadelphia bankers, Hollywood lawyers and CEO ’ s of Fortune 500 companies ...

In the early months of the American Civil War, Cooke collaborated with the secretary of the treasury Salmon P. Chase in securing loans from the leading bankers in the Northern cities ; his own firm was so successful in distributing treasury notes that Chase engaged him as special agent for the sale of the $ 500, 000, 000 of so-called " five-twenty " bonds — which were callable in 5 years and matured in 20 years — authorized by Congress on February 25, 1862.

The " prime bank " operation which claims to offer an urgent, exclusive opportunity to cash in on the best-kept secret in the banking industry, guaranteed deposits in " prime banks ", " constitutional banks ", " bank notes and bank-issued debentures from top 500 world banks ", " bank guarantees and standby letters of credit " which generate spectacular returns at no risk and are " endorsed by the World Bank " or various national governments and central bankers.

he was referred to Quaker Johns Hopkins as a " wealthy Union man " and as a member of a committee of bankers who gave $ 500, 000 to the city of Baltimore after the first bloodshed in the Civil War was shed there.

Western bankers had loaned over $ 500 million to the government of Poland, and at a meeting at the Bank Handlowy in Warsaw on 1 July 1980, made it clear that low prices of consumer goods could no longer be subsidized by the state.