Those fines helped build a village.
Some regulators have said that waiving the fines helped to get the banks to settle — no kidding!
The fines help to reduce the fees paid by City firms to fund the FSA, which is to be closed down by the government in the next two years.
Jail sentences and big fines help to focus company chiefs' minds on the rules, making them think twice about carving up markets or entering into price agreements with their supposed competitors.
When the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, said that on-the-spot fines helped lighten the load of courts, Howson remarked, "The DPP should not be considering what is expedient but what is just".
"Parking charges and fines help councils keep traffic flowing and pedestrians and motorists safe".
That campaign — that earned the Green Party record fines — helped Peña Nieto's PRI maintain a working majority in the lower house of Congress after the elections.
While suspensions and fines help to define what type of conduct is expected of professional athletes, they do little to change the overarching narrative that sport snubs LGBT coaches, athletes, and fans.
Less well-known is that it recently paid a $78 million£5050 million) fine for helping ultra-rich clients evade tax by using Panamanian and other offshore structures.
So the first thing I thought of was just to make sure my family was OK and once they were fine, to help anyone else I could.
