Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer and Regulatory AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International and S. 1019
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer and Regulatory AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Essays and Documentation
Author: A. BlockPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401734135
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
face. As myoid boss when I joined the discout market - who had worked as a "bond-salesman" on Wall Street during the "Great Crash" of 1929, through the Credit Anstalt crash, and served in British military intelligence during the Second World War - always used to say: "Remember! The telephone is not a secure instrument. " During the 1960s, foreign banks had flooded into London in pursuit of Eurodollar deposits. Arabs were spending their new found oil wealth in West End casinos. Ex change Control regulations were tight. In 1971, when our story begins, new "banks" on the fringe took advantage of the property boom, fuelled by Tory Chancellor Barber's first Budget. The discount houses (whose functions and special privileges at the Bank were soon arcane) became active traders in US dollar and foreign currency paper, and took stakes in the new money brokers (or "barrow boys," as the snobs called them, since the sharpest brokers were mainly Cockney Eastenders). While the "gentleman's club" was quickly being replaced by the fast growing "interbank swaps" market (now LIFFE), the discount houses had found a new role to pla- opening representative offices overseas (Gillett Brothers, where I was then chairman, in Southern Africa, UAE, Australia and Singapore, with brokering subsidiaries in Europe, Far East, and North America) - gathering market intelligence around the world, as the invisible "eyes and ears" of the Bank of England.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Investigation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Banking Industry Regulatory Consolidation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Congressional Record Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1842
Book Description
Includes history of bills and resolutions.
Targeting Fraud
Author: Benton E. GupPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Targeting Fraud collects a wide array of prevention and detection measures to help bankers avert fraud and abuse--from the inside and the outside. Includes descriptions of the major types of crimes and schemes, fraud deterrence tools an techniques, sample controls and policies for fraud prevention programs, and case studies.
Selected Acquisitions of the Library
Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. Law LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description