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Robert R. Davis (born April 3, 1949) is an American economist and trade association executive. A longtime executive at the American Bankers Association and its predecessor, America's Community Bankers, Davis served for five and a half years as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
An international financial institution (IFI) is a financial institution that has been established (or chartered) by more than one country, and hence is subject to international law. Its owners or shareholders are generally national governments, although other international institutions and other organizations occasionally figure as shareholders.
On 23 April 2015, Deutsche Bank agreed to a combined US$2.5 billion in fines – a US$2.175 billion fine by American regulators, and a €227 million penalty by British authorities – for its involvement in the Libor scandal. The company also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, acknowledging that at least 29 employees had engaged in illegal activity.
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) came into widespread use in the 1970s as a reference interest rate for transactions in offshore Eurodollar markets. [25] [26] [27] In 1984, it became apparent that an increasing number of banks were trading actively in a variety of relatively new market instruments, notably interest rate swaps, foreign currency options and forward rate agreements.
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) is the primary trade group for small U.S. banks. [1] It represents approximately 5,000 small and mid-sized financial institutions that are commonly known as "community banks."
Image 1: After a contract is concluded between a buyer and a seller, the buyer's bank supplies a letter of credit to the seller. Image 2: The seller consigns the goods to a carrier in exchange for a bill of lading. Image 3: The seller provides the bill of lading to the bank in exchange for payment. The seller's bank then provides the bill to ...
A standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a contract of adhesion, a leonine contract, [a] a take-it-or-leave-it contract, or a boilerplate contract) is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and is thus placed in a "take it or leave it ...