Sentences with phrase «campaign against banks»

«There's been a big reputation hit for the banks — this has been one of the largest NGO campaigns against the banking industry in recent memory,» said Steven Heim, managing director of Boston Common Asset Management.

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Gates» decision comes just a day after Mueller leveled 32 new charges against Gates and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in a superseding indictment, accusing them of financial crimes related to tax and bank fraud.

On the broadest social level, the ostensible «free market» lobbying effort sponsored by banks to shift the property tax onto labor and industry has become a campaign against government itself.

But on this issue and others, Republican lawmakers face counterpressures from conservative antigovernment groups including Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Charles and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, which want to kill the Ex-Im Bank and are ready to finance campaigns against unsupportive Republicans.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

Business groups applauded the blocking of the tax, which was angrily criticised by big bank chief executives and the Australian Bankers Association, which has run a lengthy campaign against it since that time.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

Finkelstein devotes most space to examining the WJC's campaign against the Swiss banks, a campaign that has received worldwide publicity.

Miffed by the constant abuse of the naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) have joined forces to launch grassroots campaign against naira abuse across the 774 local government areas of the country.

Katko, R - Camillus, now has more than $ 1.4 million in his campaign bank account heading into his November election against Democrat Colleen Deacon, of Syracuse, the FEC records show.

And we'll campaign against loan sharks and pay day lenders; helping to develop community banks, credit unions and building financial literacy and resilience.

There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

Phillips said the money could be put to better use in the fall campaign against Katko, a two - term congressman who has more than $ 1 million in his campaign bank account.

Although the Democratic Party has consistently claimed that all the money it raises is used to beat Republicans, in an unethical, inappropriate and underhanded move, the Chair of the Democratic State Central Committee, along with the help of Malloy's campaign operatives, used more than $ 50,000 in Democratic State Central funds to directly bank - roll the anti-public education slate in Bridgeport against the pro-public education Democratic challenge slate.

The mothers were presumably impressed by his campaign against unfair bank charges, rather than his big brown eyes.

Vanessa Green, Campaign Director for DivestInvest Individual said, «We are thrilled to have some of the nation's leading social change organizations join us in taking a stand against banks that are financially backing destructive fossil fuel projects.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.

In a victory for Berta Cáceres» campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

In 2006, Helen Green won a landmark case against Deutsche Bank and was awarded over # 800,000 in damages by the High Court for being the victim of «a relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress».

The Polish central bank (NFB) has been accused of paying prominent Polish YouTubers to run a «low down and dirty» smear campaign against the cryptocurrency market, without properly disclosing sponsorship.

The Central Bank of Poland recently admitted to funding a social media campaign against cryptocurrencies.

The social media campaign against crypto was carried out by Central Bank of Poland in conjunction Google Ireland Limited, and Facebook Ireland Limited and cost about $ 27,000.00

The lawmakers also asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to launch a campaign against the risks of trading bitcoin.

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