And the banking giant UBS learned after an estimated $200 billion outflow of private client assets, fines of $780 million, and pressure from national governments to disclose clients' names that in the age of transparency, hiding behind Swiss secrecy laws is not a good strategy.
Prosecutors and the federal police have been seizing cash and assets, including fine art.
"Our investors are acquiring a strong existing business with excellent producing assets, a fine team of technical and operating staff already in place, and immense potential for future growth," Mr. Hayward said in a statement on Wednesday.
Its all-share offer for both SocGen and Paribas would create the world's first bank to have $1 trillion in assets.Much fine speechifying ensued as both sides tried to appeal to the American fund managers in the audience by whipping out competing sets of figures to demonstrate the shareholder value inherent in their proposals.
Assets are fine if you think bankers rule the world.
Its economy centres on tourism; the territory's natural assets include fine beaches and volcanic mountains.
The EFCC claimed that it had obtained about 250 convictions and recovered about $4 billion in confiscated assets and fines.
They have also apparently agreed to transfer to Colombia any seized assets or fines imposed on the warlords to compensate more than 100,000 victims who have come forward.
Fininvest, the Berlusconis' holding company for family assets, was fined $1.09 billion in 2009 for bribery, and a decision by a Milan appeals court is expected this week.
And the veteran Bob Dishy is a fine asset as Jerry's blunt-spoken father, who keeps imparting unwanted information about his sex life in the face of Jerry's mortified demurrals.
"The Alexander Street site, with access to two train stations and the waterfront, is a very fine asset, and I'm glad somebody will be redeveloping it, even if it isn't us," Mr. Rose said.
