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Still, recent reports demonstrate that bank secrecy is still very important for Switzerland and suggest how Swiss banks intend to maintain that secrecy for years to come. Credit Suisse, which took a net capital outflow hit of $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, reported it had about $100 billion of private, cross-border assets from politically sensitive or tax-sensitive countries. But when stress tested in simulations of widespread tax amnesties, it showed that $25 billion to $35 billion might flee. That sounds huge, but with some $800 billion under management, it's just a couple of quarters...
However, when Wells Fargo and Credit Suisse were contacted, they confirmed there had been "discussions" with Hertzberg's group, but said no formal agreements had been hammered...
...assets are managed, how the real estate performs, and, if all else fails, a reinsurance contract. He says the 20% premium fee will be placed into an investment trust and actively managed over the eight year period. He says he has two banks, Wells Fargo and Credit Suisse, on board to manage the assets and even lend money against the home in year eight if needed. On top of that, he says talks are underway to bring in a reinsurer. "The reinsurers' job is to step in at the end of the day and make up any shortfall should there...
...characterizing one as male or female, then we can think about the ways in which women might experience national belonging differently from men. The fact that women had limited access to the vote until suffrage was granted in 1920, that until quite recently women could not have their own credit lines without the approval of their husbands or fathers, the fact that women still earn substantially less than men on average. And of course race and class influence one’s access to the rights and privileges of citizenship in concrete ways as well, usually in conjunction with notions...
...nasty fronts like this are usually rare, and soon pass. For one, the slide likely had more to do with Prudential's announcement than with intensified concerns about hung parliaments, as was reported widely in the British press, says Daragh Maher, deputy head of global foreign exchange strategy at Credit Agricole in London. In some ways, that's encouraging. If a single opinion poll was able to trigger the kind of slump seen Monday - in a volatile day of trading, sterling eventually closed 1.7% down on the dollar - an actual hung parliament might be expected to cause the venerable currency...