The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations

The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations
Author: Senator John Kerry
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1105096858

"The Bank of Credit and Commerce International remains today, 30 years after its founding, a byword for corruption, influence peddling, bribery, crony capitalism, phony audits, money laundering, and worse. It managed to stave off crises with "too big to fail" arguments and friends in high places. Here, in full documentary splendor, we see the genesis of the term "bankster" and the stunning failure of the same roster of government agencies caught napping before the panic of 2008. This December 1992 document is the final draft of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report. It was released by Congress but co-author Sen. Hank Brown, reportedly acting at the behest of Henry Kissinger, pressed for the deletion of a few passages, particularly re: Kissinger Associates. As a result, the final hardcopy version of the report, as published originally by the Government Printing Office, is less complete than the version you now hold in your hands. Long out of print and available only electronically, this report is here presented in a new edition designed for readability and easy reference." -- Page [4] of cover.

The BCCI Affair

The BCCI Affair
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1993
Genre: Banks and banking, Foreign
ISBN:

The BCCI Affair

The BCCI Affair
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1993
Genre: Banks and banking, Foreign
ISBN:

The BCCI Affair

The BCCI Affair
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 864
Release: 1992
Genre: Banks and banking, Foreign
ISBN:

The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Essays and Documentation

The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Essays and Documentation
Author: A. Block
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401734135

face. As myoid boss when I joined the discout market - who had worked as a "bond-salesman" on Wall Street during the "Great Crash" of 1929, through the Credit Anstalt crash, and served in British military intelligence during the Second World War - always used to say: "Remember! The telephone is not a secure instrument. " During the 1960s, foreign banks had flooded into London in pursuit of Eurodollar deposits. Arabs were spending their new found oil wealth in West End casinos. Ex change Control regulations were tight. In 1971, when our story begins, new "banks" on the fringe took advantage of the property boom, fuelled by Tory Chancellor Barber's first Budget. The discount houses (whose functions and special privileges at the Bank were soon arcane) became active traders in US dollar and foreign currency paper, and took stakes in the new money brokers (or "barrow boys," as the snobs called them, since the sharpest brokers were mainly Cockney Eastenders). While the "gentleman's club" was quickly being replaced by the fast growing "interbank swaps" market (now LIFFE), the discount houses had found a new role to pla- opening representative offices overseas (Gillett Brothers, where I was then chairman, in Southern Africa, UAE, Australia and Singapore, with brokering subsidiaries in Europe, Far East, and North America) - gathering market intelligence around the world, as the invisible "eyes and ears" of the Bank of England.

International Banking Regulation:Law, Policy and Practice

International Banking Regulation:Law, Policy and Practice
Author: George Walker
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2001-12-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 904119794X

This work offers a comprehensive examination of the development and structure of the provisions for the control of international financial markets. It explores the background to the major financial crises of the late 20th-century and the nature of the global response.