"Will they contact the S.E.C. and say, 'Here's the transaction we participated in, and we'd love to know who is on the other side of it?' " The biggest victim among investors, the S.E.C. complaint said, was the Royal Bank of Scotland, which inherited a loss of $841 million after it took over the Dutch bank ABN Amro.
Allen & Company LLC advised on the transaction and participated in the round.
Griffin told me that none of the Libya-related business transactions he participated in involved nuclear equipment or were otherwise illegal.
Texas-based Century Payments has donated over $450,000 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure through its "Every Swipe Counts" campaign, in which the credit card company donates a percentage of every credit card transaction to participating merchants.
To date, Square has enaBeginningllion merchanthis falland Square– to accept credit card payments through a mobile device (Android, iPhone, iPad) and a tiny square dongle.
The company also began processing all U.S. credit and debit card transactions at participating Starbucks stores, which is going to be huge.
The Carpenters claim to have participated in transactions involving more than a hundred million dollars' worth of instruments in the past four years, including, they say, eighteen Stradivaris.
Mr. Kopper's name is far from the best known of the former Enron executives who have been propelled into the national spotlight since the company filed for bankruptcy protection, but the transactions in which he participated at Enron have become the centerpiece of the criminal investigation.
A company spokesman, Donald Campbell, said in a statement: "The U.S. government advises us that one former Chevron crude oil trader participated in transactions when he knew or should have known that surcharges were to be paid by the third-party merchants from which Chevron purchased the crude oil.
Once someone has registered a card with LocalBonus, then any transaction made at participating merchants will begin automatically accruing points.
