Sentences with phrase «million francs»

Eight years ago, when Vincent van Gogh's Garden at Auvers went up for auction in Paris, the late - period work — painted just weeks before the artist's suicide in July 1890 — was valued at more than 200 million francs, nearly $ 30 million.

By the time he figures out something must be amiss, she has vanished along with nearly 28 million francs from his bank account.

Souleymane Seye Ndiaye), a married man who requests that his wife be paid his fee of a million Francs before his departure on the dangerous journey.

Alterations to the structure of the Vivitron over the past year have increased its cost to 96 million francs (# 12 million), 7 million francs over the original budget.

In a third dispute, all the landowners are suing the government and the photographic agency Sygma for 6 million francs as their share in the earnings from photographs of the prehistoric masterpieces, which were either given or sold to the media and publishers all over the world.

The project will cost 60 million francs (# 7.6 million).

Montagnier said he would set up three centres for clinical trials of AIDS treatments in Paris, California and Cote d'Ivoire, at a start - up cost of some 180 million francs (# 20 million) and annual operating costs of 150 million francs.

«Three million francs» worth of gold and silver going to waste.»

The investment bank posted pretax profit of 589 million francs, the Zurich - based bank said in a statement on Monday, beating the average estimate for 463 million francs in a company - compiled survey of 24 analysts.

Credit Suisse posted a 983 million franc loss for 2017.

CEPH's involvement in gene mapping goes back to 1980 when Jean Dausset, a Nobel prizewinning immunologist and geneticist, set up the institute with a 50 million franc bequest from a wealthy art collector.

The Grande Galerie of the Natural History Museum in Paris was inaugurated by President Francois Mitterrand after a 420 million franc (# 50 million) facelift.

Not exact matches

Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam earned 5.3 % less last year than he did the year before — a mere 9.7 million Swiss francs ($ 10.26 million) for 2017 — thanks to shareholder pressure.

GENEVA — Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

GENEVA (AP)-- Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs ($ 46 million) in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam earned 9.7 million Swiss francs ($ 10.26 million) last year, a 5.3 reduction over his prior - year compensation.

In addition to the approximately 2 million Swiss francs worth of assets that the regulatory body has already managed to recover or block, it anticipates potentially seizing more after the conclusion of these proceedings.

The Swiss food group said that the division, which sells brands such as Butterfinger, Crunch and LaffyTaffy, had sales of 900 million Swiss francs ($ 935 million) in 2016.

Last week, Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau paid 48.6 million Swiss francs ($ 48.4 million) at Sotheby's in Geneva for a 12.03 - carat blue diamond, the most spent on a jewel at auction.

Last week, Switzerland - based blockchain association Crypto Valley Association announced that, during an educational visit to Zug (also known as Crypto Valley), Federal Councilor and Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Johann Schneider - Ammann affirmed that he would petition the Swiss Federal Council to allocate 150 million Swiss Francs to local startups.

Anna Irrera of Reuters recently reported on our announcement that Swiss Insurance Group, Baloise Holding, committed 50 million Swiss francs ($ 49.57 million) to...

As a result, firms will be allowed to accept public funds from more than 20 persons up to 1 million Swiss francs before being classified as a commercial entity, so long as they don't re-invest those deposits.

In this case, the Council promoted the formulation of a new authorization category for BankA companies that accept public funding up to 100 million Swiss francs, but do not invest or pay interest on those funds.

Credit Suisse on Wednesday reported 694 million Swiss francs ($ 707.4 million) in first - quarter net income, its best quarter since Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam launched a three - year restructuring plan for Switzerland's second - biggest bank.

Firms that accept fewer than 1 million Swiss francs (roughly $ 1m USD) «will be exempt from authorization» the Federal Council said.

Platini is being investigated over that same payment, which amounted to two million Swiss francs and which he claims was payment for work done nine years previously.

«She won the 3 1/2 - million - franc Prix de l'Élevage the last two years, firsttime a mare ever did that.

Putting that in context — Rwanda spent 5.5 billion Rwandan francs ($ 6.5 million) to conduct its August 4 third multiparty election which had 6.8 million registered voters thus less than a dollar per voter.

Around two million Swiss francs were budgeted for the associated research.

Their caution reflected the heavy costs of Napoléon's previous quest for glory: more than 900,000 French soldiers dead, and a depleted national treasury now saddled with millions of francs of reparations due the Allies.

The French cabinet has approved an increase of 5.25 per cent in funding for research and development for 1993, taking spending up to 61.3 billion francs (# 500 million).

Practice makes perfect: but perfection still hadn't quite been achieved when, a fortnight ago, the whole organisation was held to ransom for two million French francs after some 1200 electronic components that are indispensable to the running of its particle accelerators were removed and hidden.

At that time, it is understood that Bally had more than 400 million Swiss francs ($ 411 million) in annual sales.

The last sold at auction for 1.87 million Swiss francs (about US$ 2m).

A US based trader might sell $ 10 million versus the Brazilian real at 2.4000 for BRL 24,000,000 and at the same time buy $ 10 million versus the Swiss franc at CHF 0.9000 for CHF 9 million — both deals in the spot market.

Upwards of 3 million Swiss francs are spent each year to ensure the best experience and environment for the hotel's guests.

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With haunting simplicity, it portrayed aristocrats in peasant dresses worth no more than 70 old francs (1.5 million euros).

«In fact, this profit statement reflects legitimate income from activities conducted before 2015, primarily a parting bonus for past work from the Ringier Collection in the amount of 1 million Swiss Francs.»

Those figures were boosted by two purchases by Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau, who set an auction record when he paid 48.6 million Swiss francs ($ 47 million) for a blue diamond in Geneva at Sotheby's on Nov. 11, a day after paying 28.7 million Swiss francs for a pink diamond at Christie's.

a fine of up to 10,000 Swiss Francs (more in certain specific cases) for individuals and up to 5 million Swiss Francs for companies; breaches of stock exchange reporting requirements may be punished with a fine up to 20 million Swiss Francs;

As an example, in December 2012, FINMA disgorged 59 million Swiss Francs in illegal profits (estimate) in an investigation into price fixing brought against a large international bank.

Recently Swiss startups planned to invest 100 million Swiss Francs to invest in the ICO initial coin offering, this is the latest sign of Switzerland's emergence as a crypto power.

In December 2014, two con men from Girona, Spain agreed to sell a fake Francisco de Goya painting for 4 million Euros but, unbeknownst to them, the purchaser was a con man himself and the down payment of 1.5 million Euros (1.7 million Swiss francs) they received from him were counterfeit bills.

A Swiss start - up plans to hoover up 100 million Swiss francs with an unusual fund - raising — the latest sign of Switzerland's emergence as a crypto power.

Kordek took the audience through the company's financials, providing a transparent breakdown of company funds in various cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies, to a total value of 300 million Swiss Francs.