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...Eurojust announced the seizure of some €120mn of assets, including bank accounts and real estate. US authorities seized the two New York properties and associated bank accounts on August 10....
...He said he has spent all his savings on the estate and legal fees, an estimated €200,500-€500,000 in total. “I’ve wasted 18 years of my life. It’s not fun.” And yet, he is not even close to giving up....
...Singapore recently connected its digital payments system to India’s to allow instant cross-border remittances from its 400,000 residents of Indian origin....
...Under China’s deposit insurance scheme, account holders will be covered for up to Rmb500,000 if a bank is under financial strain....
...“It has to come out in the newspapers that it was seized,” he told one of his men....
...savings....
...Hundreds of millions of sons, and particularly daughters, of Chinese farmers, who moved from the farm where they were earning really the same as they were earning 1,000 years ago in Chinese history....
...They’re benefiting from that....
...Only 13 per cent of nearly 117,000 Family Law Court files for dissolution in 2019 contained some sort of pension settlement order, “in part explaining the gender disparity in wealth”, adds Crookes....
...Kennedy was banned from Instagram but remains on Facebook, with more than 300,000 followers, and Twitter, with more than 225,000....
...The changes in England next year will start with a 5 per cent cut to payments of less than £30,000, rising to a 10 per cent cut to the tranche between £30,000 and £50,000, 20 per cent on payments from £50,000...
...Back in 2007, only £2,000 of savings per customer were fully guaranteed. Today, it is a much more generous £85,000 — and up to £170,000 for joint accounts....
...The tax-free element of VCTs is also appealing for investors who are restricted from further pensions saving, have already maxed out their £20,000 annual Isa allowance and face the reduced dividend allowance...
...The former owner of Agrokor, which became one of Europe’s biggest corporate bankruptcy cases in recent times, has claimed the company was illegally seized from him by the government of Croatia....
...Afterwards, officials seized meat samples from the victim’s home to determine if it was beef, which extremists argued would be a mitigating factor in his killing....
...They have little incentive to find an alternative — customers trust traditional banks with their savings. Small fintech firms are targeting what they see as the lucrative end of banking activity....
...This includes company dividends, bank account interest and income from any trusts or settlements, plus any taxable benefits — from employers or the government....
...The Yingluck administration fuelled an unprecedented credit binge, however, which drove household debt from 59.3 per cent of GDP at the end of 2010 to 77.7 per cent by mid-2014, when the military seized...
...Kenton Archer, landlord of The Bull, borrowed untold thousands from farmer brother David Archer after a flood wrecked the village pub....
...Cryan is convinced the scope for savings is bigger than at UBS. “Here the cost-cutting is more straightforward because it’s an avoidance of duplication,” he says. “We employ 97,000 people....
...In 2015, a total of 343,000 households paid €5.22bn, an average of about €15,200 per household. It accounts for less than 2 per cent of France’s tax receipts....
...Two hours in ATM queues, four in bank queues, half a day at the post office to set up savings accounts for those who don’t have any....
...MetLife last month agreed to sell its 4,000-strong network of agents. AIG has also sold its network of broker-dealers....
...From April next year the first £1,000 of the interest you earn on all of your savings will be completely tax-free....
...He spent his savings helping women who were sick, poor or alone. His wife and children disapproved, as did his mother....
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