Sentences with phrase «as a banker for»

They resided in Muscat because of her father's job as a banker for the United Nations.

Although Cooper worked as a banker for more than a decade, the healthy returns are the result of the Powell River Community Foundation mirroring what Vancouver Foundation does in terms of trading policies, he says.

Not exact matches

A rigorously constructed morality tale with a well - paid Wall Street investment banker as its hero, Flash Boys could hardly be confused for Das Kapital.

A banker can also provide guidance on how to lay a strong financial foundation for your business, such as establishing a business plan.

For example, a banker can help you build a strong credit profile, as well as help you gain access to the capital your business needs when you're credit ready.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

There could even be job losses in the sector, as well as lower wages for bankers — bad news in a country where the financial sector was the largest single contributor to GDP in 2010, accounting for 195,000 skilled jobs.

Even as China's stock market continues to reel, and Europe still searches for a way to keep its monetary union intact, central bankers remain confident that the American economy is on the upswing.

Costa worked as an investment banker for years, before leaving the business to raise her daughter.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

She had been considered as a candidate for deputy Treasury secretary but withdrew rather than undergo a banker - bashing confirmation hearing.

The eurozone's central bankers, as well as some of the less charitable politicians in the region's lending countries, say Spain must first request that money from the central bailout funds and agree to stringent conditions in return for support.

An even bigger question about the financial services industry's adoption of distributed ledger technologies might not be about how this gets implemented and what specific block chains they choose, but rather what happens to the float that savvy bankers and financial firms have taken advantage of as they wait for deposits to clear.

The admission may provide further ammunition for a recent Malaysian government crackdown on foreign banks trading in the ringgit in offshore market, seen by bankers as an attempt to curb a devaluation of the currency.

The company has chosen Morgan Stanley (ms) and Goldman Sachs (gs) as its lead bankers for the offering.

«Not only will Barry be a trusted advisor for our clients, he will also serve as a great mentor for our team of private bankers throughout the region.»

Michael Goldberg, the head of ECM in the US for RBC, credited a favorable market backdrop — especially for IPOs — in the first quarter, as well as some payoff from the firm's investments over the past seven to nine years in adding senior bankers to its US roster.

Don't be afraid to consider off - beat careers either — being a forester isn't as common as a banker, but it may be the perfect fit for you.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

It's a tall order, even for a central banker as experienced as Yellen, who has been the Fed's vice-chair until now.

If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for making money» — well, you and the author are not going to get along.

Investors are carefully following what central bankers are saying at the symposium as they have increasing doubts over the next steps for monetary policy.

Gawker has engaged bankers «for quite some time» as a contingency plan for the legal battle, and had reportedly been exploring a sale.

She has been the lead banker on numerous milestone technology financing rounds, including for Amazon, eBay, Netscape, Priceline and Verisign as well as for The Blackstone Group, GE and the NYSE.

Morgan Stanley's far - flung stockbrokers, who manage money for individual clients and prefer to be called financial advisers, now contribute almost as much to the bottom line as the bankers and traders who long counted themselves as Wall Street's blue - blooded elite.

Bankers rightfully fear for their jobs as bitcoin replaces them,» he said.

There's been a dearth of IPOs this year — so much so that 2016 will go down as a banner year of less than plenty for investment bankers who rely on fees from this corner of the market, depressed as it is to a multi-decade low.

Mr. Bannon worked as a media banker for Goldman Sachs several decades ago and built up some of his fortune from royalties on reruns of the «Seinfeld» television show.

Outside watchers of the company have looked at Anthony Noto, a former technology banker at Goldman Sachs and Twitter's current chief financial officer, as another potential candidate for chief executive.

In my view, the fintech revolution will not eliminate the need for trusted intermediaries, such as brokers and bankers.

The Beijing - based company has in recent weeks been in talks with bankers about the feasibility of tapping the public markets for cash in the second half of 2018, as it looks to amass a large war chest to fend off rivals in China and other countries, the people said.

The company had appointed Kotak Investment Banking, Citigroup Global Markets and Deutsche Equities India as investment bankers for the exercise.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamfor David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesopotamFor Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

It was a big week for Ripple XRP, as the so - called bankers» token overtook Ethereum to become the world's No. 2 cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

The feeling is that European politics are being run for the benefit of bankers, not the social democracy that Iceland imagined was the guiding philosophy — as indeed it was when...

One particular point I want to highlight is the need for central bankers to be aware of the risks that their banks and corporations are taking in regard to foreign currency exposures, as these can be a major source of financial vulnerability for a country.

Anyway the point is that if you are a banker and conceive of your job as «save the careers of corporate managers» rather than «do what is best for the corporation,» that's a little weird.

Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

Once I find a company selling for less than its cash in the bank, I take a close look at its fundamentals... I've analyzed thousands of companies in my role as an investment banker and private investor... so I know what to look for.

Silbert — a long - time financier who cut his teeth on Wall Street as an investment banker for Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin — founded Digital Currency Group in 2015 to oversee his multi-pronged foray into the budding cryptospace.

Carney dreamed of playing goalie in the NHL, but settled for earning economics degrees at Harvard and Oxford universities, and spending 13 years as a high - flying Goldman Sachs banker in London, Tokyo, New York and, finally, Toronto.

A «hard - money» philosophy thus has led Russia to pay vast sums of interest to the world's investment bankers for the privilege of printing currency that it could just as well do for itself.

According to a bio on Greylock's website, Humes started the firm in 1995 after working as a banker and trader for Lehman Brothers and Manufacturers Hanover, including stints swapping debt for equity in Latin America and restructuring government debt for the Philippines and Yugoslavia.

Mr. Kashkari arrived in Washington in 2006 after spending two years as a low - level technology investment banker for Goldman in San Francisco.

Even central bankers are not immune to the desire for loss aversion, as they grapple with multi-billion-dollar decisions that could unintentionally cripple their economies.

As this underscores, even central bankers are not immune to the desire for loss aversion, as they grapple with multi-billion-dollar decisions that could unintentionally cripple their economieAs this underscores, even central bankers are not immune to the desire for loss aversion, as they grapple with multi-billion-dollar decisions that could unintentionally cripple their economieas they grapple with multi-billion-dollar decisions that could unintentionally cripple their economies.

As such, Brookings was an ideal forum for the panel of central bankers to discuss how digital currencies are affecting their practices and spheres of influence.

Seriously my main career ambition as a banker was to get a large mistaken wire transfer and flee the country, but it never worked out for me.

Bradley Birkenfeld was released from federal prison in August 2012 after serving 2 1/2 years for his role as a Swiss banker hiding millions of dollars for wealthy American clients.