Sentences with phrase «trading office against»

Of course, we now have the pending High Court proceedings by the Fair Trading Office against a group of leading bankers though, with the stay of all county claims in the meantime being far from inevitable, there could be authoritative rulings elsewhere before the High Court proceedings reach the finishing post.

Not exact matches

If against all odds you really are the next Warren Buffett, you'd be better off making millions managing a fund in New York, in The City of London, or from an office in Omaha than merely making a few extra thousand by trading your retirement portfolio.

Among the allegations against Webzilla: The International Intellectual Property Association, in a Feb. 9 letter this year to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, complained that Webzilla, as an Internet Service Provider, «serviced and administered» in Cyprus a company called 4shared.com.

IFOAM - Organics International, IFOAM EU and their advocacy partner the Fair Trade Advocacy Office (FTAO) in Brussels advocate against the EU Commission's proposal to shift the EU organic import regime towards a compliance approach.

UK competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading, says it will not be taking action against six Scotland - based dairy companies accused of engaging in price fixing.

We feel it's outright disingenuous for a blog of this caliber to promulgate such bullshit about how great Tony Avella and Paul Graziano are without so much as mentioning how many times Tony has been caught up in the universe of corruption: from allowing convicted Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin's to throw him lavish fundraisers, «Avella has served Assemblymember McLaughlin faithfully since he took office in 1992, according to City Limits,» to the favor trading with convicted felon Richard Lipsky, right down to supporting anti-Asian racist Sonny Carson not to mention his personal vendetta against young activists.

1004 - OFT - Office of Fair Trading acts against leading payday lenders and proposes to refer the sector to the Competition Commission.

This vision of life in the Bis offices was generated by Cable when he spoke about his discussions with Lord Green at a meeting organised by constituents who are members of the Twickenham, Richmond and Kingston Network Against the Arms Trade.

Mr. Bharara's office secured convictions or guilty pleas against more than 70 hedge fund traders, analysts and consultants in insider trading cases.

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and the Florida Office of the Attorney General, a federal district court judge has entered eight orders against an intertwined web of Orlando - based individuals and companies that bombarded consumers with illegal robocalls from «Card Member Services,» pitching worthless credit card interest rate reduction programs.

Bigger even than the Office of Fair Trading, which got no votes, as against Lewis's 49 %.

Similarly, Guidelines on the assessment of horizontal merger under the Council Regulation on the control of concentrations between undertakings [2004] OJ C31 / 3, para 79 has a rule against aggregating across markets; and see the discussion in OFT, Article 101 (3)-- A Discussion of Narrow versus Broad Definition of Benefits: discussion note for an OFT breakfast roundtable (London, Office of Fair Trading, May 12, 2010), available at http://www.oft.gov.uk/news-and-updates/events/roundtable-article101 (3) / paras. 2.4, 4.1 and A10).

[31] In R v. George, [32] a case against certain British Airways executives concerned with a cartel offence involving alleged collusion with Virgin Atlantic, this issue arose in circumstances where the relevant Virgin Atlantic executives had admitted the offences and were given immunity from prosecution by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

«Self - sanctioning is something that a number of Canadian and other western companies have done,» says Lou Naumovski, director general of the Kinross Moscow office and chairman of the board of directors of the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association, a trade organization that has spoken out frequently against the economic sanctions.

Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency trading probe that ended in a $ 150m settlement.

His office's case against SAC capital, for example, resulted in the largest fine ever paid in the history of insider trading prosecution and served as the inspiration for the television series Billions, currently airing on Showtime.

His firm is known for its work in class actions relating to consumer issues, banking and shares: for example, it represented 32,000 convenience store owners in a successful challenge against the Office of Fair Trading, and 36,000 private shareholders in Northern Rock following the 2008 global financial meltdown.

In April this year judgment was handed down in the first part of the eagerly awaited test case brought by the OFT against the UK's leading high street banks seeking a ruling on the fairness of their unauthorised overdraft charges (Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and others [2008] EWHC 875 (Comm), [2008] All ER (D) 349 (Apr)-RRB-.

We have litigated against virtually every U.S. enforcement agency including the U.S. Department of Justice («DOJ»), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC»), the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its Office of Foreign Assets Control («OFAC»), the Federal Trade Commission (the «FTC»), as well as Attorneys General and District Attorneys in numerous states.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and individuals.