foreign exchange dealings
71Botswana — Republic of Botswana Lefatshe la Botswana …
72Abdul Qadeer Khan — HI, NI (twice) Abdul Qadeer Khan, 1999. Born 1 April …
73Presidency of Hugo Chávez — Venezuela under the presidency of Hugo Chávez (1999 present) has seen sweeping and radical shifts in social policy, moving away from the government officially embracing a free market economy and neoliberal reform principles and towards quasi… …
74Credit default swap — If the reference bond performs without default, the protection buyer pays quarterly payments to the seller until maturity …
75Petroleum politics — Argentine president Néstor Kirchner and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez discuss the Gran Gasoducto del Suran energy and trade integration project for South America. They met on November 21, 2005 in Venezuela. Petroleum politics have been an… …
76money laundering — the moving of the proceeds of crime through the financial system so as to conceal its nature. As a result of a European directive, the UK has implemented rules against this practice mainly through the Criminal Justice Act 1993. Aside from… …
77Letter of credit — After a contract is concluded between buyer and seller, buyer s bank supplies a letter of credit to seller …
78London — /lun deuhn/, n. 1. Jack, 1876 1916, U.S. short story writer and novelist. 2. a metropolis in SE England, on the Thames: capital of the United Kingdom. 3. City of, an old city in the central part of the former county of London: the ancient nucleus …
79French support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war — French support for Iraq during the Iran Iraq war was an important element to strengthen Iraq for the Iran Iraq war. Starting in roughly 1975, leading up to the Iran Iraq War, as well as the war itself, the greatest amount of military equipment… …
80Barings Bank — Industry Banking Fate Collapsed (Purchased for £1 by ING). Successor ING Group Founded 1762 …
