Mauritius provides an environment for banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, captive insurance managers, trading companies, ship owners or managers, fund managers and professionals to conduct their international business.

The Clinton Administration issued a veto threat, in part because the bill would eliminate “ the longstanding right of unitary thrift holding companies to engage in any lawful business ,” but primarily because the bill required national banks to conduct expanded activities through holding company subsidiaries rather than the bank “ operating subsidiaries ” authorized by the OCC in 1996.

On October 13, 1999, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department agreed that direct subsidiaries of national banks (“ financial subsidiaries ”) could conduct securities activities, but that bank holding companies would need to engage in merchant banking, insurance, and real estate development activities through holding company, not bank, subsidiaries.

At the end of 2004, the central government approved Kunming to be one of the 18 mainland cities in which foreign banks could conduct business in renminbi.

Many of Citi's present international offices are older ; offices in London, Shanghai, Calcutta, and elsewhere were opened in 1901 and 1902 by the International Banking Corporation ( IBC ), a company chartered to conduct banking business outside the U. S., at that time an activity forbidden to U. S. national banks.

Several inquiries have been made into the conduct of Swiss banks during the Nazi Germany period ( 1933 – 1945 ), especially regarding funds deposited by or allegedly stolen from victims of the Holocaust.

It reached similar conclusions about the banks ' conduct in its final report, and found that trade with Nazi Germany did not significantly prolong the war.

The company was the only one apart from the banks that was licensed to conduct currency exchange in Sweden.

Its recommendations included a code of conduct for banks regarding small business loans, an ombudsman to oversee this code of conduct, and a provision allowing entrepreneurs to borrow up to twenty per cent from their registered retirement savings plans ( RRSPs ).

These sanctions include new measures to reduce Iran ’ s ability to conduct financial transactions between the state-owned banks of Iran and United States citizens or private organisations.

* Hong Kong Monetary Authority press release, Hong Kong banks to conduct personal renminbi business on trial basis.

Canada's revised Bank Act had created a new schedule, Schedule III, for banks that are foreign bank branches of foreign institutions that have been authorized under the Bank Act to conduct commercial operations deemed banking in Canada.

For many decades, that awareness led governments to impose strict controls over the activities and conduct of banks and other credit agencies, but in the 1980s many governments pursued a policy of deregulation in the belief that the resulting efficiency gains would outweigh any systemic risks.

Fastow also takes advantage of the greed of Wall Street investment banks, pressuring them into investing in his shell entities and, in effect, conduct business deals with himself.

Arab Bank stated that the Consent Orders made clear for the first time “ that banks have a duty to conduct their own review of their customers ' customers and apply essentially the same controls and independent testing to correspondent banking transactions as they do to their own customers ' accounts .” The bank agreed to a payment of $ 24 million to close the investigation.

One consequence of the Act is that banks, as well as professional firms such as solicitors, accountants, and insolvency practitioners, who suspect ( as a consequence of information received in the course of their work ) that their customers or clients ( or others ) have engaged in tax evasion or other criminal conduct from which a benefit has been obtained, are now required to report their suspicions to the authorities ( since these entail suspicions of money laundering ).

In animal societies, symbolic communication helps one understand the conduct of members of cooperating groups.

`` By observing the conductor '', he says with a twinkle in his eyes, `` I learned how not to conduct ''.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, additional research affiliations were effected with the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to conduct research in procedures for quantitative electron microscopy, and for the study of biophysical and biological studies of the structure and function of ocular tissue.

The 1958 town meeting directed town authorities to seek federal and state funds with which to conduct a preliminary survey of a proposed sewage plant with its attendant facilities.

Even if not yet ratified, the Articles provided domestic and international legitimacy for the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War, conduct diplomacy with Europe and deal with territorial issues and Indian relations.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

As all attempts to conduct a satisfactory negotiation with this emperor failed, Alaric, after instituting a second siege and blockade of Rome in 409, came to terms with the Senate.

6: 28 ) His conduct, along with that of his brother, as a judge in Beer-sheba, to which office his father had appointed him, led to popular discontent, and ultimately provoked the people to demand a monarchy

" A woman cannot be herself in modern society ," he argues, since it is " an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

Such changes could have rendered previous methods of codebreaking insufficient, with serious implications for the conduct of the war.

These tests met with “ partial success ” in the gathering of data, and led, therefore, to a significant increase in research dollars in fiscal year 1962 to conduct additional research in these areas.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

The Ottomans, with whom Bonaparte had hoped to conduct an alliance once his control of Egypt was complete, were encouraged by the Battle of the Nile to go to war with France.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

Jean Beleth, a 12th-century liturgical author, gives the following list of books necessary for the right conduct of the canonical office: the Antiphonarium, the Old and New Testaments, the Passionarius ( liber ) and the Legendarius ( dealing respectively with martyrs and saints ), the Homiliarius ( homilies on the Gospels ), the Sermologus ( collection of sermons ) and the works of the Fathers, besides, of course, the Psalterium and the Collectarium.

From a Memorandum of 20 October 1963 by Major Raúl Castro, it can be seen that great importance was attached to the decent behaviour of the troops, with strict instructions being given on their proper conduct during foreign interventions.

It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.

Originally, the Nazis used death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, to conduct massive open-air killings of Jews in territory they conquered.

Because of her good conduct, the Nazis sent her to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto in Czechoslovakia in November 1944 as Head Female Overseer.

The question then arises: if corporations are to be inspected with care, what-if not the commercial or social conduct, or the by-laws-is to be inspected – and by whom?

* The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka " for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class ".

A critical task in setting up a business is to conduct research in order to validate, assess and develop the ideas or business concepts in addition to opportunities to establish further and deeper understanding on the ideas or business concepts as well as their commercial potential.

The earliest Akkadian laws are the “ Old Assyrian Laws ” relating to the conduct of the commercial court of a trading colony in Anatolia, ca.

The Pilgrim government granted William Green rights to conduct commercial fishing there in about 1627.

Investigation into the conduct of so-called Magdalene Laundries, some of which were run as commercial laundry businesses by the Sisters of Mercy, found that many girls died and were buried in the grounds of other laundry business premises as run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, without any reporting or accountability to proper legal authorities, and that many were buried in unmarked graves or given a generic Magdalene derived name.

Signed into law on September 6, 2003, this statute prohibits anti-SLAPP motions in response to certain public interest lawsuits and class actions, and actions that arise from commercial statements or conduct.

John Myers, who had developed commercial brands such as Century Radio and Real Radio, was asked in the first quarter of 2011 to conduct a review into the efficiencies of Radios 1, 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.

The European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES, and the commercial Arianespace company conduct launches from Kourou.

In commercial clinical trials, the study protocol is not approved by an IRB before the sponsor recruits sites to conduct the trial.

It restricted Cuba in the conduct of foreign policy and commercial relations.

Euroberlin was jointly owned by Air France and Lufthansa, with the former holding a 51 % majority stake, thereby making it a French legal entity and enabling it to conduct commercial airline operations in West Berlin.

Science policy is an area of public policy concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

Upper part of Longyeardalen, with Longyearbyen School to the left, Huset to the right and an aerial tramway in the background Because of the special treaty status of Svalbard, Longyearbyen is subject to Norwegian legislation, but citizens of any signatory country may conduct commercial activities and live in town.

Japanese commercial law is also characterised by a relationship with the bureaucracy that is important in determining how those engaged in commerce conduct business.

Matrix would bind together government and commercial databases to allow federal and state law enforcement entities to conduct detailed searches on individuals.

UMBI's mission is to conduct groundbreaking research in key areas of biotechnology, to make fundamental discoveries, generate innovative solutions to practical problems, and develop new technologies for commercial application.

* strives for excellence in science and scholarship, for high ethical standards in the conduct of research, and for independence from political, commercial and ideological interests.

In December 2011, a former Bankwest commercial client Geoff Shannon started an action group and website called " Unhappy Banking ", after losing " all of company and personal assets due to the predatory conduct of Bankwest ".

Newman conducted the recording sessions for the music heard in the film, but was unable to conduct the commercial release of the score due to failing health, and the commercial release was conducted by Stanley Wilson.

" A threat to bring a patent infringement action is highly likely to influence the commercial conduct of the person threatened, which is why the law of some countries, including the UK, provides that the making of a groundless threat to sue is, within certain carefully prescribed limits, an actionable wrong in itself.

In pursuit of these goals, the Vision called for the space program to complete the International Space Station by 2010 ; retire the Space Shuttle by 2010 ; develop a new Crew Exploration Vehicle ( later renamed Orion ) by 2008, and conduct its first human spaceflight mission by 2014 ; explore the Moon with robotic spacecraft missions by 2008 and crewed missions by 2020, and use lunar exploration to develop and test new approaches and technologies useful for supporting sustained exploration of Mars and beyond ; explore Mars and other destinations with robotic and crewed missions ; pursue commercial transportation to support the International Space Station and missions beyond low Earth orbit.

In 1921 he founded the company Seismos, which was hired to conduct seismic exploration in Texas and Mexico, resulting in the first commercial discovery of oil using the seismic method in 1924.