In 1964 an agreement was concluded enabling Yugoslavia to participate on equal terms with Comecon members in the areas of trade, finance, currency, and industry.
This month, the Parliament authorized the Ministry of Finance to borrow an additional 40 trillion yen to finance currency intervention -- double the total sold last year.
Citigroup embarked on a big international expansion a century ago; Chase, now part of JPMorgan Chase, opened many foreign branches in the 1960s and 1970s.As they expanded in the 1990s and 2000s all of these firms concentrated on multinationals, which required things like trade finance, currency trading and cash management.
But near-zero U.S. interest rates last year saw the dollar become the financing currency for these trades.
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We follow him during the course of a long day in April 2000, as he goes looking for a haircut, an ambition which is endlessly frustrated - partly by traffic jams, partly by visitors to his stretch limo (his head of finance, his currency analyst, his doctor, his philosophical adviser, his bodyguard), but mostly by his own wilful deviations.
