A transaction named Abacus 2007-AC1 became one of the most infamous trades of the financial crisis, netting more than $1 billion for Paulson & Company, a hedge fund that successfully wagered that the housing market would crash.
Cobra stands for currency options bring reward alternatives, and Cobra Swaps, a similar transaction named in the Barron complaint, involve generating artificial losses through offsetting foreign currency trades channeled through partnerships and private companies.
DIFFICULTY IN KNOWING A DEAL'S FRIENDS FROM FOES | A transaction named Abacus 2007-AC1 became one of the most infamous trades of the financial crisis, netting more than $1 billion for the hedge fund Paulson & Company, which bet the housing market would crash.
In March, Credit Suisse completed a transaction named Lucerne, after the Swiss lake, in which it bought insurance on a 5 billion Swiss franc portfolio of small and medium-size Swiss business loans, according to people who were briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak on the record because they had signed confidentiality agreements.
In addition, there were calls for a currency transaction tax, named after Nobel Laureate James Tobin's proposal, from many civil society nongovernmental organizations as well as some governments.
The modern flood of data comes in a many forms — sensor data, genomic data, web click streams and credit card transactions, to name a few.
Revenue will be from sponsorship/advertising and transactions (domain name sales, business planning software etc).
That was when the site was attacked by "The Impact Team", a group of hackers threatening that, unless Ashley Madison went offline immediately, it would "release all customer records, including secret sexual fantasies, transactions, real names and addresses".
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–sanctions imposed by the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, which banned Myanmar's imports into the U.S. and restricted financial transactions with named senior State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) figures.
