Sentence examples for euro payment from inspiring English sources

He was referring to a 14.5 billion euro payment that Greece must make on March 20 or face a potentially disastrous default.

– Brian X . Chen Angerat Nokia Executive's Payoff The Financial Times |  Finland's prime minister and finance minister criticized Stephen Elop's 18.8 million euro payment from Nokia.

Its fourth-quarter net income was up 52percentto to 268 million euros, from the period a year earlier, in part because of an 88 million euro payment from Pfizer that was made in connection with a drug development program.

Schneider said the new offer, under which holders of nonvoting Legrand shares would receive two shares of Schneider plus a 55 euro payment, would cost it 363 million euros ($308 million) more than the original bid.

The surprise collapse last week of the talks in Athens raised the prospect that Greece might not receive a crucial 30 billion euro payment and might miss a make-or-break 14.5 billion euro bond payment on March 20 — throwing the country into default and jeopardizing its membership in the euro zone.

That figure excludes exceptional costs like a 39 million euro payment to the Irish government in penalties and back taxes on bogus nonresident accounts, and 68 million euros worth of staff severance packages that were part of a domestic restructuring that will eliminate 60percentt of the branches in Ireland.

But most of the cash machines were converted to euros two weeks ago, and store customers have switched over to euro payments almost as quickly as in other countries.

And it is the Bundesbank, the German central bank, that is mainly responsible for operating the internal euro payments system for big money transfers.

Crossborder consolidation among banks has accelerated; the share of equities held in other euro area countries has doubled to 40%; and the single euro payments area (SEPA) is set to eliminate differences between national and crossborder retail payments.

By 2008 a proposed single euro payments area is supposed to allow credit transfers, direct debits and card payment services across the euro zone at a standard domestic price.

The company said it had found a way to link a bitcoin "wallet" service to the euro payments system, making it possible for users to send money to and from their bitcoin account.