ING has been named 2nd "Best Bank in Structured Trade Finance 2013", winning the Silver Medal, by Trade & Forfaiting Review.
ING Bank's reputation in the SCTF arena has made the Dutch trade bank a regular feature of Trade & Forfaiting Review’s Deals of the Year. The JSC Acron US$ 300m fertiliser PXF winner was, in the words of one judge, "a rare outing for JSC Acron and quite a niche market for syndications in which the lead bank must really know their stuff." Other examples of the Dutch bank's structuring track record include the US$ 600m Siberian Coal Energy company PXF, and the US$ 1bn Mechel Mining PXF at the end of 2012.
IMF says US/UK Housing Boom Poses 40% Risk of
by damnwinner Going Bust.
U.S., U.K. Housing Boom Poses 40% Risk of Going Bust, IMF Says
Washington, April 3 (Bloomberg) -- The boom in U.S. and U.K.
housing prices has a 40 percent chance of collapsing and damaging
the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said.
A 70 percent rise in U.K. housing prices since 1994 and
27 percent rise in the U.S. since 1996 ``exceed our measures of
what constitute a boom,'' Kenneth Rogoff, the fund's chief
economist, told reporters by telephone.
``Given that there are linkages in trade and finance and
other areas, a housing bust in one country will have spillovers in
the rest of the world,'' Rogoff said
Here is a good site
by StinkPalm
If you want to know the position a politician takes on an issue this is a good place to look. Not everybody has responded but what they put up in their "Political Courage Test" is the responses from the candidate themselves on questions of all types including:
-Abortion Issues
-Gun Issues
-Budgetary, Spending and Tax Issues
-Health Issues
-Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform Issues
-Immigration Issues
-Crime Issues
Well, now we know SOME of what Obama is hiding!
by big-fing_deal President Obamaâs campaign has left off its public list of âbundlersâ at least 25 names its own finance team considers to be among their most valuable funders, including seven who live in foreign countries, a review of records by The Washington Times found.
In one case the campaignâs own internal documents listed Cynthia Stroum as bundling $400,000 this election cycle, yet she is not on the campaignâs official public list.
The documents obtained by the New York Times listed Elizabeth Birch, a prominent gay-rights activist, as having raised $446,450 over the 17 months ending in May
Is this a sign of the Antichrist?
by Celluloid_Hero 
Hard to believe anyone in their right mind would want to replace the coke-lined currency of a fraudulent, corrupt & bankrupt nation like the USA. What's the world coming too? We're doomed... eeeek!
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UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world's monetary system since the Second World War.
In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and economic crises
