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umm!!! yor math is worng if the 5,000 is replaced with the new 5. Then that 5 x3 = 15 us. so the old 5,000 would then equal $15,000 US.

Big Banks Craft 'Living Wills' In Case They Fail Published: Wednesday, 27 Jun 2012 By: Reuters Five of the biggest banks in the United States are putting finishing touches on plans for going out of business as part of government-mandated contingency planning that could push them to untangle their complex operations. The plans, known as living wills, are due to regulators no later than July 1 under provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law designed to end too-big-to-fail bailouts by the government. The living wills could be as long as 4,000 pages. Since the law allows regulators to go so far as to order a bank to divest subsidiaries if it cannot plan an orderly resolution in bankruptcy, the deadline is pushing even healthy institutions to start a multi-year process to untangle their complex global operations, according to industry consultants. "The resolution process is now going to be part of the cost-benefit analysis on where banks will do business," said Dan Ryan, leader of the financial services regulatory practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. "The complexity of the organizations will shrink." JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley are among those submitting the first liquidation scenarios to regulators at the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance, according to people familiar with the matter. The five firms, which declined to discuss their plans for this story, have some of the biggest balance sheets, trading desks and derivatives portfolios of financial institutions in the United States. US Banks Face $60 Billion Capital Shortfall 15 Major Investment Banks See Ratings Cut by Moody's Great Britain and other major countries are imposing similar requirements for "resolution" plans on their big banks, too. The liquidation plans are coming amid renewed questions about the safety of big banks following JPMorgan's stunning announcement last month that a trading debacle has cost it more than $2 billion - a sum far too small to endanger the bank, but shocking enough to bring back memories of the financial crisis. A Nod To Glass-Steagall If the extensive planning and review process works as proponents hope, big banks will become less hazardous to the public and regulators will be more confident that they can let wounded institutions die without wrecking the economy. In congressional hearings earlier this month, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that the bank's contingency plan for going out of business would let it fail without cost to taxpayers. Living wills reduce the systemic risk of a big bank failing, Dimon said. The living will requirement could actually yield similar results to restoring Glass-Steagall without actual re-enactment of the Depression-era la ws se parating commercial banking from investment banking, former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair told Reuters TV earlier this month. Bair said regulators may determine that for a liquidation plan to work, a bank must separate traditional banking and insured deposits into subsidiaries set apart from volatile securities trading and securities underwriting. The rules push banks to untangle their complex structures, which can include thousands of legal entities, and which, in Bair's opinion, have effectively blocked proposals for breaking up the corporations. Whether the Fed and the FDIC would actually force any banks to sell businesses or cordon off insured deposits remains to be seen, cautioned Richard Herring, a banking professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "We don't know if they will have the guts to do it, but the tools are there," said Herring, a leading proponent of living wills for more than a decade, who was appointed to an FDIC advisory panel on the plans. Herring worries , too, that the plans will be so long and complex that they will overwhelm the staff at the agencies. Still, that the plans are being written at all is progress, Herring said. Plan For Two Ways To Die Under the Dodd-Frank Act, banks and regulators must imagine liquidations in two different ways. The first is through bankruptcy courts with banks negotiating with their creditors. This is the going-out-of-business method planned in the living wills due July 1. The living wills must include how subsidiaries in foreign jurisdictions will be liquidated. The second way is through a new kind of liquidation process in which the FDIC takes control of putting a financial giant down. Th is method has more flexibility than is allowed in bankruptcy courts, but still uses critical information collected in the banks' living wills, such as where exactly to find collateral. The new rules stagger deadlines for the banks to file plans, depending on their size and complexity. Nine banks will file first, including five based in the United States and four owned abroad. Regulators have declined to name the nine banks included in the first round. Other large banks will have until July and December of next year to hand in their plans, according to the FDIC. Eventually about 124 banks are expected to submit plans, according to the FDIC. There are about 7,300 banks in the United States. Regulators and the big banks have been meeting since January on what the plans are expected to include. Fed and FDIC officials have said they expect the back-and-forth to continue once the plans have been submitted. The rules give the banks a series of chances to refine their plans. But if banks cannot come up with feasible liquidation plans, regulators could order the banks to get rid of businesses. Government intervention is a last resort, said John Simonson, the FDIC's deputy director of Systemic Resolution Planning and Implementation in the Office of Complex Financial Institutions. "I think a lot of progress can be made in having these firms make themselves more resolvable before you get to that point of actually imposing those severe remedies," Simonson said. The regulators will want to see evidence that the banks can safely resolve their debts and transfer vital customer services and assets to healthy institutions. The plans could easily be 2,000 or 4,000 pages long, depending on the complexity of the banks, said Ryan of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The plans include "very granular detail" about bank operations, he noted, adding that "in many cases, this is a large documentation exercise." For example, the banks must spell out plans for hiring lawyers and contacting regulators in key countries. The rules for crafting the living wills are 74 pages long, including an explanatory supplement. The plans could even include drafts of press releases showing how the banks would announce that they are going out of business, Herring said. The plans are to include summaries for the public, but most of the data will be kept confidential at the request of the banks concerned about revealing trade secrets, according to the rules. The FDIC has not said when the summaries would be released. The regulators estimated it will take all of the 124 banks combined about 1.3 million hours of work to write their initial plans, and each year afterwards, 267,544 ho urs to keep them up to date. A 4 0-hour work week for a single employee equals 2,080 hours a year. ref: My link

Just received this email - IT related Iraq: Fully Connected or Digitally Isolated? Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Article: Find Out About Iraq's IT Sector Survey: What Are Your Perceptions On Iraq? Iraq IT Overview - What Do You Think? When businesses talk of Iraq, the word you will here is always 'potential.' But how much of that potential is being realized in the IT sector? How many people are on the internet? How many have mobiles? Do businesses have a website or email? This blog looks at a country still finding its feet in the digital world, and looks at a youth who are wirelessly connected and communicating. Find out more now. Iraq: Give us your views There's lots of talk about investment potential in Iraq, but up to date data from the ground is hard to come by. How do potential investors feel about what they've heard on Iraq? Answer our four question survey and let know about your views on whether it's about to take off. Take the survey now. Kind regards, Kasey Cassells e-Editor IDG Connect

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Is anyone have problem with you local bank Notary not wanting to notarize you gifting letter(s). my story - I went to my local 53 bank. Ask to have some documents notarized. At first the lady was polite and looked over the first couple of documents and notarized them. Then she changed her tune after reading a gifting letter and stated that she could NOT and would NOT notarize the gifting letters I had. For these did not seem to be in her jurisdiction and she did not believe in what was in the letter. Now on another note. I had helped a friend with here gifting letters for her family. she took the to here local Comerica bank and had no problem getting the taken care of.

In my opinion this could be a last ditch effort by M to poise himself before the people looking better then he is. Note that the source is NOT a rep of the GOI or any leading body. Please not also that M government owns the media and is putting out more propaganda in my opinion.

frank at his site is the cheapest out side of the banks and that I know of VND only has a top not at 500,000 not 1mill. ref: My link or My link

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Ericsson could turn you into a human USB connection next year The Connected Me concept is Ericsson's latest attempt to get away from the perception that it's merely a telecom-equipment supplier. by Roger Cheng May 11, 2012 2:58 PM PDT Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg (left) and Anders Stenkvist, manager of the company's mobile access platform, showing off the Connected Me concept at CES in January. (Credit: Ericsson) NEW ORLEANS--When Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg used his Consumer Electronics Show keynote to demonstrate the company's Connected Me concept, which turns the human body into a bridge between gadgets, he was met with lackluster applause. Part of the problem was the audience didn't fully grasp what Vestberg was trying to show. He was on stage holding a smartphone in one hand and the sensor for an audio system in the other. The data signal shot through his body, playing an MP3 from the phone on the speaker system. In effect, he became a replacement for a USB cord or Bluetooth connection. People watching the presentation, however, were underwhelmed. The company showed it off at its giant booth at Mobile World Congress, and again this week at the CTIA Wireless show, where it largely went unnoticed. Related stories Who the heck is Plum anyway? Getting familiar with Plum devices (photos) An Evo LTE-eye view of New Orleans (photos) CTIA 2012 sees Android Ice Cream Sandwich take root Unnecto targets frugal shoppers with budget smartphones But the project has fairly wide applications beyond turning a person into a human stereo system. People can shake hands and exchange digital business cards. Or you can tap your printer and have print out your document. Surprisingly, Ericsson is bullish about the technology, and Chief Marketing Officer Arun Bhikshesvaran believes it could go commercial as soon as next year. Connected Me is just one of many projects that Ericsson has fostered over the years. It has been on a campaign to re-brand itself as more than just a supplier of telecommunications and wireless equipment. From its work with developers to its various media content services, the company has tried to establish itself as a cutting-edge company on par with any on Silicon Valley. "Base stations are what people know of Ericsson," Bhikshesvaran said. "But at the end of the day, we're all about connecting people." Connected Me evolved out of another project that was shown off at CES -- the tweeting tree. Ericsson wired up a tree with radio gear and proximity sensors and set it up to tweet messages about the weather or its "mood," depending in part on whether anyone was touching it or even just standing nearby. That ability to sense people was the basis for the idea of transferring data through a human body. Since human bodies consist largely of water, there's enough conductive material to act as a conduit. An Ericsson representative said the process transmits less electricity than the human body already holds. The company is looking at different applications. Bhikshesvaran said the company was exploring the notion that it could end up being a new biometric footprint, since bodies all possess a unique energy signature. The company hasn't quite figured that one out yet. Or, he added, the technology could be paired with a fingerprint reader: tap the screen with your finger to confirm identification, and have the data shot through your body to your phone. It sounds far-fetched, but Connected Me could come to you sooner than you think. With the proof of concept already out, Ericsson is talking to a number of potential equipment makers about getting this technology into their devices, Bhikshesvaran said. Initially, the company is looking at the smartphone, PC, television, and printer industries as logical adopters. While there's interest, Bhikshesvaran wouldn't comment on whether any companies have committed to the technology. Overall, it could take 12 to 18 months to get a product out. Ericsson, meanwhile, benefits from the potential to license the technology, sell more equipment, generate traffic, and gets the company closer to its vision of the "connected society." It could also mean one less cord for you to carry around. --------- Is this another form of the mark of the breast... You decide! My link

‘Amazon tax’ is thrown out by a Chicago-area judge The Illinois law tied online sales tax collection to affiliate marketing. Thad Rueter Senior Editor Topics: Affiliate marketing, Amazon, Commerce Clause, Cook County, CouponCabin.com, e-commerce, e-commerce taxes, Illinois, Internet Tax Freedom Act, legal and regulatory, Main Street Fairness Act, nexus, online sales taxes, Overstock, Performance Marketing Association, physical presence, Rebecca Madigan, sales tax, Scott Kluth, Top 500 An Illinois law mandating online sales tax collection by e-retailers that maintain affiliates in the state was thrown out Wednesday by a Cook County Circuit judge. Judge Robert Lopez Cepero ruled that the Main Street Fairness Act, enacted in March 2011, was invalid because e-retailers do not create a physical presence, or nexus, in the state simply through affiliate marketing relationships. Affiliate marketing refers to the practice of web site publishers such as blogs earning a cut of purchases from Amazon.com Inc. and other retailers made via product links on the smaller sites. Federal law allows tax collection only from online retailers that have a physical presence in a certain state; generally, this has been interpreted as such operations as stores, offices and warehouses, a view reinforced by Wednesday’s ruling. The Illinois law and similar laws passed in other states attempt to widen what constitutes that physical presence. The state’s Department of Revenue has estimated that collecting sales taxes under the levy, which was commonly called an Amazon tax because of the retailer’s prominence and large affiliate network, would bring in up to $170 million annually. State law already requires consumers to voluntarily remit such taxes to the state, but few shoppers do. Related Articles / Legal/Regulatory Barnes & Noble owes sales tax for online sales / Legal/Regulatory Amazon strikes a tax deal with Nevada / Affiliate Marketing The future of affiliates is about how you treat them Cepero on Wednesday also said the Illinois law violates the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, which generally prohibits certain types of taxes on web use and transactions until Nov.1, 2014, as well as the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which gives the federal government oversight of interstate commerce. The Department of Revenue was the defendant in the case. “We respectfully disagree with the court's ruling and are reviewing our appeal options with the Attorney General’s office,” says a spokeswoman for the revenue department. “We need to protect brick-and-mortar stores from an unlevel playing field.” The California-based Performance Marketing Association was the plaintiff. The trade group for affiliate marketers argued that the Illinois law was “premature,” given the 2014 moratorium under the Internet Tax Freedom Act. “We are thrilled with the outcome of today’s proceeding and believe it paves the way for Internet marketing affiliates to get back in business in Illinois,” says Rebecca Madigan, the group’s executive director. “We commend Judge Cepero for his timely and thoughtful decision.” The trade group estimates that 1,000 out-of-state retailers severed their ties with Illinois affiliates after the law was enacted, and that 9,000 affiliates were affected. “We do expect an appeal,” she says. “Our attorneys indicated this may go straight to the Illinois Supreme Court, since we won on constitutional grounds. Neither Amazon nor the state’s Department of Revenue immediately responded to requests for comment. Such laws in Illinois and other states have moved retailers such as Amazon, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, and Overstock.com Inc., No. 27, to cut ties with affiliates rather than run the risk of having to remit taxes for online purchases. Online discount provider CouponCabin.com, which provides digital coupons that would be subject to taxes under the state’s law, was based in Illinois but moved to Indiana because that state had no similar law. “This ruling places the responsibility for a solution back where it belongs: in Congress,” says CEO Scott Kluth. “CouponCabin continues to strongly support a federal solution to the taxation of all online transactions.” Stephen Kranz, partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, will discuss the online tax issue at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2012 in Chicago in June in a session titled “The new urgency for developing a state sales tax strategy.”

He said in a statement to NINA today: "Kurdistan region is unable to buy any weapon without the knowledge of the federal government, because there is one defense minister in the federal government is responsible for the arms deals." <<< My question is "WHERE IS THIS MINISTER? --- WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR OVER TWO YEARS."

IT Just another Comie / Lib / Socialists wanting part or all of the wealth to be shared with their group(s). So as you read above this man want laws making them share their wealth. Since that a being smart and investing for them selves and not the government or politico(s).

http://cbi.iq Currency Code Sell Buy US dollarUSD1166.0001164.000 EuroEUR ----- ----- British poundGBP1851.3751850.449 Canadian dollarCAD1169.2741168.689 Swiss francCHF ----- ----- Swedish kronaSEK ----- ----- Norwegian kroneNOK ----- ----- Danish kroneDKK ----- ----- Japanese yenJPY 14.31014.303 Special Drawing RightsSDR1793.8791792.982 Indicative rates - 10.04.2012 I Hope this means something...