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The 2018 Money in the Bank was the ninth annual Money in the Bank professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event took place on June 17, 2018, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, and was the second Money in the Bank held at this venue after the 2011 event. Eleven matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Raw's Braun Strowman won the men's Money in the Bank ladder match. The women's ladder match was won by Raw's Alexa Bliss, who later that night cashed in her contract to win the Raw Women's Championship from Nia Jax after causing a disqualification in the previous title match between Ronda Rousey and Jax. In other prominent matches, AJ Styles retained SmackDown's WWE Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura in a Last Man Standing match, and Carmella defeated Asuka to retain the SmackDown Women's Championship. Critics gave the event a mixed-to-positive reception; the ladder matches, WWE Championship, Raw Women's Championship, and the Intercontinental Championship matches garnered the most praise. The remaining matches from the card, however—including Bobby Lashley vs. Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns vs. Jinder Mahal—were negatively received. Production Background Money in the Bank is an annual professional wrestling event produced by WWE since 2010, which at the time was generally held between June and July. The concept of the event comes from WWE's established Money in the Bank ladder match, in which multiple wrestlers use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring. For 2018, the briefcase contained a contract that guaranteed the winner a match for a world championship at any time within the next year. While the 2017 event was a SmackDown-exclusive pay-per-view (PPV), the 2018 event featured wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions after WWE discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs following WrestleMania 34 in April that year. The 2017 event also introduced the first women's Money in the Bank ladder match, with the 2018 event including both a now-standard men's and women's ladder match. For 2018, each match featured eight wrestlers evenly divided between the two brands and the contracts in the briefcases specifically granted the winners a world championship match of their respective brand. Male wrestlers competed for a contract to grant them a match for either Raw's Universal Championship or SmackDown's WWE Championship, while female wrestlers competed for a Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship match contract. Announced on November 22, 2017, the ninth Money in the Bank was scheduled to be held on June 17, 2018, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb Rosemont, Illinois, marking the second Money in the Bank held at this venue after the 2011 event. The event aired on PPV worldwide and was livestreamed on the WWE Network. Tickets went on sale on March 9 through Ticketmaster. Storylines The event comprised 11 matches, including one on the
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The Shield was a professional wrestling stable in WWE that consisted of Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins. Their original characters were mercenaries for CM Punk; however, they quickly became mainstay main-event names. The group debuted on November 18, 2012 at the Survivor Series pay-per-view. The Shield was a dominant force in six-man tag team matches with an undefeated televised streak lasting from December 2012 to May 2013, during which they scored a victory at WrestleMania 29. In May 2013 at Extreme Rules, all three members of The Shield won a championship, with Ambrose winning the United States Championship while Rollins and Reigns captured the WWE Tag Team Championship. Rollins and Reigns were WWE Tag Team Champions until October 2013, and Ambrose was United States Champion until May 2014, which was a record reign for the WWE version of the championship. As a Shield member, Reigns gained prominence by setting and equaling elimination records at the 2013 Survivor Series and the 2014 Royal Rumble events. The Shield at various points served as hired guns for CM Punk and The Authority while later going on to face their former employers in separate feuds. They wrestled in the main event of numerous Raw and SmackDown television shows and headlined one pay-per-view, the 2014 Payback event, which was their final match as a trio until 2017. Rollins left the group on June 2, when he attacked Ambrose and Reigns with a chair and sided with The Authority. Ambrose and Reigns went on their own ways as singles wrestlers later that month, marking the end of The Shield. Following the group's dissolution, each member of The Shield went on to become a world champion. All three reigned as WWE World Heavyweight Champion within a three-minute span at the end of the 2016 Money in the Bank event: Rollins defeated Reigns for the championship and then Ambrose cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase (which he won earlier that night) on Rollins to win the title. In the lead-up to the 2017 SummerSlam event, Ambrose and Rollins reunited and captured the Raw Tag Team Championship from Cesaro and Sheamus. Then on the October 9 episode of Raw, the trio reunited to feud with The Miz, Cesaro and Sheamus. In December 2017, the team dissolved once again after Ambrose suffered an injury. Following Ambrose's return from injury the previous week, The Shield reunited once again on August 20, 2018 episode of Raw to prevent Braun Strowman from cashing in his Money in the Bank contract on Reigns. However, in October that same year, The Shield disbanded following Reigns' hiatus over his leukemia rediagnosis and Ambrose's betrayal towards Rollins. After Reigns returned in February 2019 and announced that his leukemia was in remission, the trio reunited and won the main event match of Fastlane that same month. Although this was promoted as The Shield's final match together, they reunited at the special event The Shield's Final Chapter, Ambrose's final WWE match due to not renewing
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Win Ben Stein's Money is an American television game show created by Al Burton and Donnie Brainard that aired first-run episodes from July 28, 1997, to January 31, 2003, on Comedy Central. The show features three contestants who compete to answer general knowledge questions to win the grand prize of $5,000 from the show's host, Ben Stein. In the second half of each episode, Stein participates as a "common" contestant in order to defend his money from being taken by his competitors. The show won six Daytime Emmy awards, with Stein and Jimmy Kimmel, the show's original co-host, sharing the Outstanding Game Show Host award in 1999. The show was produced by Valleycrest Productions, Ltd. and distributed by Buena Vista Television, both subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company. As noted in the disclaimer during the closing credits, prize money won by contestants is paid from a prize budget furnished by the producers of the show. Any money left over in that budget at the end of a season is given to Stein. If the total amount paid out during a season exceeds that budget, the production company pays the excess. In this way, Stein is never in any danger of losing money from his own pocket. Jimmy Kimmel co-hosted the series for the first three years. Kimmel left in 2000 to focus on The Man Show and was replaced by South Parks then head writer Nancy Pimental, who co-hosted the program through 2002. Kimmel's cousin Sal Iacono took over the role in 2002 and stayed until the series ended in 2003. Kimmel made guest appearances and hosted College Week in 2001. Game format Round 1 The game begins with three contestants and $5,000 in Stein's bank. Five categories are available for contestants to choose from, with pun-laden titles hinting at the questions' content. After a contestant chooses a category, its value is revealed ($50, $100, or $150) and Stein asks a toss-up question open to all three contestants. Higher-valued categories are more difficult. If a contestant rings in and answers correctly, the question value is added to their score and deducted from Stein's bank. An incorrect response carries no penalty but allows the other two contestants a chance to ring in. The contestant who answers the toss-up is then asked a follow-up question worth $50. If they cannot answer correctly, either of the other two can ring in and attempt to score. If no one rings in and answers the toss-up question correctly, the $50 follow-up question is asked as a toss-up as well. Once both questions have been asked, the category is removed from play and a new one substituted in its place, and the contestant who gave the last correct answer to that point chooses the next category. The co-host warns the contestants when there are two minutes left in the round. Once time runs out, the lowest-scoring contestant is eliminated and their total is returned to Stein's bank. If there is a tie for low score, one
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The Fall of the American Empire () is a 2018 Canadian crime thriller film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Alexandre Landry, Maxim Roy, Yan England and Rémy Girard. It is about a man (Landry) who, after an armed robbery in Montreal, discovers two bags of money and is unsure what to do with them. Based on a 2010 Old Montreal shooting, it is thematically related, but not a direct sequel, to Arcand's 1986 The Decline of the American Empire and 2003 The Barbarian Invasions. The film was released in Quebec on 28 June. It subsequently screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and at the Valladolid International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. Plot Pierre-Paul Daoust works as a delivery man to pay his bills despite having a PhD in philosophy, believing himself too intelligent to be successful. While working on a delivery in Montreal, he witnesses a robbery that ends in a fatal shootout, leaving two gym bags filled with millions of dollars of cash unguarded on the ground. He rushes to grab the bags and place them in his delivery truck when the police arrive. They question him as a witness before dismissing him. Pierre-Paul rents a storage locker to place the bags and the bulk of the cash, keeping some in his apartment. Not knowing what to do with this amount of money, he sees on the news biker Sylvain "The Brain" Bigras is being released from prison, during which Bigras was also allowed to pursue a Bachelor in Finance. Pierre-Paul approaches Bigras as soon as he is released, asking him to serve as a financial analyst. Bigras asks Pierre-Paul for papers on his finances, but Pierre-Paul confesses he has only bags of cash. Bigras deduces the money was stolen from the West End Gang, which was keeping its funds in a store owned by banker Vladimir François. Vladimir staged the robbery of his own bank, believing he deserved a better share from the West End Gang; by mistake Vladimir's bodyguard was present, leading to a shootout. The gang searches for its money, torturing gang member Jacmel for information. Meanwhile, Pierre-Paul searches the Internet for an escort and finds Camille Lafontaine, who tempts him by using an alias from Socrates' friend Aspasia. When Lafontaine leaves Pierre-Paul's apartment she runs into police officers Pete La Bauve and Carla McDuff, who are arriving to question Pierre-Paul; the officers recognize her as a high-profile prostitute and question Pierre-Paul about it, noting he could not afford her services. Bigras advises Pierre-Paul not to see Lafontaine anymore, but Pierre-Paul responds he has an "alibi" that Lafontaine is a friend. Lafontaine does not trust Bigras and believes he will take the money; she and Pierre-Paul find the storage locker empty, and La Bauve and McDuff arrive. Lafontaine claims the storage space was for her clothing where, in fact, Bigras had moved the money to his own home, to keep it safe. Upon hearing of Jacmel's torture and
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The Man from London () is a 2007 Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky. It is an adaptation by Tarr and his collaborator-friend László Krasznahorkai of the 1934 novel L'Homme de Londres by prolific Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The film features an international ensemble cast including Czech actor Miroslav Krobot, Briton Tilda Swinton, and Hungarian actors János Derzsi and István Lénárt. The plot follows Maloin, a nondescript railway worker who recovers a briefcase containing a significant amount of money from the scene of a murder to which he is the only witness. Wracked by guilt and fear of being discovered, Maloin sinks into despondence and frustration, which leads to acrimony in his household. Meanwhile, an English police detective investigates the disappearance of the money and the unscrupulous characters connected to the crime. The French, German and Hungarian co-production of the film was fraught with difficulty and obstacles. The first of these was the suicide of the film's French producer, Humbert Balsan in February 2005, days before shooting was due to begin. As the original financing of the film collapsed, the remaining producers managed to secure stop-gap funding which allowed them to shoot nine days of footage on the expensive Corsican sets, until they were shut down through legal action by the local subcontractor. After many expressions of support from European film organisations, production companies and government bodies, a new co-production contract was signed in July 2005 with a revised budget and shooting schedule. It then emerged that all rights to the film had been ceded to a French bank under the original production agreement, and only after further changes in the film's backers was a deal struck with the bank to allow shooting to resume in March 2006, over a year later than had been originally envisaged. The Man from London was the first of Tarr's films to premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, but despite being highly anticipated, it won no prize. The French distributor blamed this on poor dubbing and a late showing, though the press was put off by the film's extended shots and leaden pace. After being re-dubbed, it was shown on the international film festival circuit. Critical reception to The Man from London was generally positive, though less adamant than that of the director's previous two works; while reviewers spoke in glowing terms of the formidable cinematography and meticulous composition, they felt the film lacked compelling characters. Variety reviewer Derek Elley commented that the film was unlikely to reconcile the division between viewers of Tarr's films who find the director to be "either a visionary genius or a crashing bore". Plot The film concerns a middle-aged railway pointsman, Maloin (Miroslav Krobot), who lives in a decrepit apartment in a port town with his highly-strung wife Camélia (Tilda Swinton) and his daughter Henriette (Erika Bók). One night while in his viewing tower at the port's rail terminus, Maloin witnesses a fight on the dockside. One of the shady combatants is knocked
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Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua is a 2018 comedy Indian-Punjabi film directed by Ksshitij Chaudhary. It stars Amrinder Gill, Aditi Sharma, Simi Chahal, Harish Verma, Jaswinder Bhalla, B.N. Sharma in lead roles. Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua was released worldwide on 13 April 2018. A sequel, Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua 2, directed by Janjot Singh was set to release in February 2023 but has been delayed. Plot The story starts in India in 1977–78 and the story goes back and forth between 1977–78 and 2016. The story starts with Bhola in 1977 in the village of Bassi Pathana in Punjab, India. Bhola is an innocent young man who is helpful and kind to all. He usually helps the villagers. The story comes to present time in 2016 where in Bassi Pathana there is a market where two shop owners Chaman Laal Sachdeva and Satpal Aneja are portrayed. The two are rivals and want to be the market heads. Neeta, son of Chaman Laal works with him in their ladies suit shop and Mishri and her father Satpal runs a sweet shop. Both are shown hating each other because of the family rivalry but soon comes closer. They elope because of their fathers; denial for their marriage with the funds collected for Jaagran on 8 November 2016 and go to a hotel to stay for night. But things turn upside down when the ₹500 and ₹1000 notes are demonetised by the Govt. They return to their homes and start living life normally. Neeta sees their friend Kiran's marriage being pulled back due to the dowry amount not being given and with help of Mishri and her friends tries to arrange the dowry. Here we see a flashback where Bhola was at Shindi's house and Shindi's brother disliked his presence there and takes him to the panchayat where he is asked by the panchayat to marry Shindi if he can build a house for themselves at a land allotted by panchayat which will take ₹1000 to construct. He accepts this and wants to earn money, He went back with money but the demonetization in 1978 under Janta Party Government led to the earnings going in vain. The villagers helped him and the story is set back to 2016 where at the wedding of Kiran the Neeta and Mishri succeed in convincing Kiran's father-in-law to let the wedding happen. Cast Harish Verma as Neeta Simi Chahal as Mishri Amrinder Gill as Bhola Aditi Sharma as Shindi Jaswinder Bhalla as Chaman Lal Sachdeva Simran Sehajpal as Neeta's mother B.N. Sharma as Satpal aneja Halwai Anita Devgan as Gollu's mother Sumit Gulati as Gollu Rohit sawal as Sonu (hair dresser) Pukhraj Bhalla as Kala Gurshabad as Doji (Milkman) Rajesh Sharma (actor) as Money Exchanger Gagan Mehra as Kiran Vijay Tandon as MLA Master Saleem as himself (cameo appearance) Soundtrack References External links Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua Trailer Punjabi-language Indian films Indian comedy films 2018 comedy films Films scored by Jatinder Shah
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Run Lola Run (, lit. "Lola Runs") is a 1998 German experimental thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer. The story follows a woman named Lola (Franka Potente) who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutschmarks in twenty minutes to save the life of her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). Run Lola Run screened at the Venice Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion. Following its release, the film received critical acclaim and several accolades, including the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Film at the Seattle International Film Festival, and seven awards at the German Film Awards. It was also selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, though it was not ultimately nominated. Plot Manni, a bagman responsible for delivering 100,000 Deutschmarks, frantically calls his girlfriend Lola. Manni says that he was riding the U-Bahn to drop off the money and fled upon seeing ticket inspectors, before realizing that he had left the money bag behind; he saw a homeless man examining it as the train pulled away. Manni's boss Ronnie will kill him in 20 minutes unless he has the money, so he is preparing to rob a nearby supermarket to replace the funds. Lola implores Manni to wait for her and decides to ask her father, a bank manager, for help. Lola hangs up and runs down the staircase of her apartment building past a man with a dog. At the bank, her father is having a conversation with his mistress, who discloses her pregnancy. When Lola arrives, her conversation with her father turns into an argument. He tells her that he is leaving her mother and that Lola is not his biological daughter. Lola runs to meet Manni but arrives too late and sees him entering the supermarket with a gun. She helps him rob 100,000 marks but on leaving, they find it surrounded by police. Surrendering, Manni throws the money bag into the air, which startles a police officer who accidentally shoots Lola dead. Events restart from the moment Lola leaves the house. This time, the man with the dog trips her with his leg, and now she runs with a limp and arrives late to the bank, allowing her father's mistress to add that he is not the father of her unborn child. A furious Lola overhears the conversation, grabs a security guard's gun, holds her father hostage and robs the bank of 100,000 marks. When police mistake her for a bystander, she is able to leave and meet with Manni in time but a speeding ambulance that Lola had distracted moments earlier fatally runs him over. Events begin again. Lola leaps over the man and his dog, arriving at the bank earlier but not triggering an auto accident as she did the first two times. Consequently, her father's colleague arrives before her and takes him away from the office. Lola now wanders aimlessly before entering a casino, where she hands over all
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Awantura o kasę (Brawl about money) is a Polish game show hosted by Krzysztof Ibisz. It aired from November 4, 2002 to February 25, 2005 on the Polish station Polsat. In 2005 ATM Grupa sold a license of the format to New Zealand using the title Cash Battle. Rules Round 1 Three teams compete: blue, green and yellow. Each team started the game with 5,000 zł. They bid on questions coming from categories chosen by a wheel spun by the host. The team that gave the highest amount of money to the pool answered the question. If their answer was correct – they took money from the pool; if they were wrong – the pool carried over to the next question. After six questions, the richest team moved to the second round. (If the last question was answered incorrectly, the team with the highest total automatically won the pool.) Each auction always began with 200 zloty being deducted from the team bank account to start with, and the teams began bidding from there. A team automatically answered the question if they bet their entire bank account ("va banque"), or if their bid was higher than another team's total in their bank account. A team who bid everything and answered a question wrong was automatically eliminated from the game. In the event this only left one team, the winning team automatically took all the money in the pool. The New Zealand version used orange instead of yellow to mark the third team. Audio/Video Some questions include audio and video clips to accompany the question. End of Round All teams go home with any money in their bank account if they have any money. If there is a tie between the lead, the tie is broken with a 1-on-1 duel. Round 2 The team that won the first round and the team that won the prior episode (known as Champions) played using similar rules. The challenging team began the round with the money they won in round 1, while the Champions team began with the score that won first round on the first episode they appeared in. The team with the highest score won the game and would play in next episode as Champions. They remained on the show until they were defeated. If round 2 ended with a tie, the win went to the Champions. Passing of the Hats The Champions team always wore traditional graduation cap and gown outfits. When a challenging team won a match, the departing Champions traditionally took off their hats and placed them on the heads of the new Champions. Categories Hint It includes 4 possible variants of answers, of which 1 is correct. After choosing category "Hint", hint can be bought on auction (but unlike other auctions, money bid by teams is removed from play instead of being added to the pool). The team that won the hint via the auction was allowed to call for it at any point, even during further episodes. A
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A Most Wanted Man is a thriller/espionage novel by British writer John le Carré, published in September 2008 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States. A young Chechen ex-prisoner arrives illegally in Germany, practically uneducated and destitute, but with a claim to a fortune held in a private bank. This novel, set in Hamburg where the author was once a British agent and consul, is based on the contemporary themes of the international war on terror, money laundering, and the conflicting interests of different officers and agents and laymen who are affected. The novel provides an extended, if oblique, critique of the American policy under President George W. Bush of extraordinary rendition. The novel's events and characters were inspired by the real-life story of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who, after being arrested in Pakistan in 2001, was detained and tortured in American military detention camps, first at Kandahar in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, before being released in 2006. Plot summary A young Turkish boxing champion in Hamburg notices he is being shadowed by a tall gaunt young man in a black coat, who turns up on his doorstep and demands hospitality. Somewhat suspiciously, they allow Issa to stay in the attic as he announces his desire to become a doctor. He contacts a human rights organisation whose attractive young bike-riding lawyer, Annabel Richter, takes his case to a British bank in the city. She bases her case to the owner, Tommy Brue, on a mysterious Lippizaner fund established by his father and held by the bank. When Brue meets Issa, he claims he is the son of a Russian, Colonel Karpov, who put his money in the fund, but after Brue's grilling, he refuses to claim his inheritance. Brue, who by this time is falling under Annabel's spell, gives her a large personal cheque to cover expenses. Brue receives visits from British intelligence who tell him that they had set up the bank accounts, which received payoffs and money from mafia sources. They ask him to alert them when Issa shows up. A German intelligence agent, Bachmann, who visits Annabel, is homing in on a suspicious Islamist terrorist with Chechen connections, arrested entering Sweden from Turkey in a container, who has escaped custody and found his way to Germany. Annabel has moved Issa from the Turkish family to a new apartment she has recently bought but not occupied, but her evasive tactics seem suspicious to the followers. She is later apprehended in the street, interrogated by Bachmann, and a woman in the intelligence service is assigned to persuade Annabel to co-operate with them. Eventually she agrees on the basis that her client will be given a German passport and be allowed to stay. They suggest to Annabel that Issa might be persuaded to give the money to an Islamic philanthropist called Abdullah who will give the money to charitable
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Money is an American brand and a personal finance website owned by Money Group — and formerly a monthly magazine first published by Time Inc. (1972–2018) and later by Meredith Corporation (2018–2019). Its articles cover the gamut of personal finance topics ranging from credit cards, mortgages, insurance, banking and investing to family finance issues like paying for college, credit, career and home improvement. It is well known for its annual list of "America's Best Places to Live". History The first issue of Money magazine was published in October 1972 by Time Inc. The magazine, along with Fortune, partnered with sister cable network CNN in CNNMoney.com after the discontinuation of the CNNfn business news channel in 2005. In 2014, following Time Inc.'s spin-off from its parent company Time Warner, which also owned CNN, Money launched its website, Money.com. After Meredith Corporation acquired Time Inc. at the beginning of 2018, Money was put up for sale. In April 2019, Meredith announced the discontinuation of Money's print publication, focusing instead on its digital platform, Money.com. The last print issue was published in June 2019. In October 2019, Meredith Corporation sold the Money brand and website to Money Group, formerly known as Ad Practitioners LLC, a Puerto Rico-based media and advertising company that operates ConsumersAdvocate.org. In 2023, Money added Best Cars and Best Hospitals to their roster of flagships, joining their existing Best Places to Live, Best Places to Travel, Best Colleges, and Best Banks annual franchises. Products and services Money's website includes financial news coverage, informational content on credit, loans, insurance, investing, and personal finance, and individual and comparative product and service reviews of companies across those industries. Money employs an editorial team of financial experts, reporters, journalists, and writers with offices in Puerto Rico and New York. Legacy and Honors Over its 50+ year history, Money Magazine has won numerous awards and honors, including: Emmy award nomination (2020) for mini-documentary “Rise Above,” featuring Amanda Nguyen. Gerald Loeb Award Winners for Personal Finance (2016, 2017 ). Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Distinguished Achievement Award (1998). National Magazine Awards for Personal Service (1988). National Magazine Awards for Public Interests (1987). National Magazine Awards for General Excellence (1986). Money’s art department has won several awards, including: International Motion Art Awards 11 Winner Animation (2023). American Illustration 42, Selected and Chosen Winner (2023). The Society of Illustrators, Illustrators 64 Exhibit (2022). American Illustration 41, Selected and Chosen Winner (2022). American Illustration 40, Chosen Winner (2021). American Illustration 39, Chosen Winner (2020). See also NerdWallet Bankrate CreditKarma LendingTree WalletHub MarketWatch References External links Money’s Archive 1972 establishments in New York City 2019 disestablishments in New York (state) Business magazines published in the United States Magazines disestablished in 2019 Magazines established in 1972 Magazines formerly owned by Meredith Corporation Magazines published in New York City Monthly magazines published in the United States Online magazines with defunct print editions Online magazines published in the United States
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The 2019 SummerSlam was the 32nd annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. The event took place on August 11, 2019, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was the second SummerSlam held at this venue after the 2004 event and the first held outside of New York since 2014. 12 matches were contested at the event, including three on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Seth Rollins defeated Brock Lesnar to win Raw's Universal Championship for a second time. In the penultimate match, Bray Wyatt debuted his new "Fiend" persona and defeated Finn Bálor. In other prominent matches, Charlotte Flair defeated WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus by submission, Kevin Owens defeated Shane McMahon to keep his job, SmackDown's WWE Champion Kofi Kingston fought Randy Orton to a double countout thus Kingston retained the title, and Goldberg defeated Dolph Ziggler. Production Background SummerSlam is an annual pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event produced every August by WWE since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four". It has since become considered WWE's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania. Announced on August 27, 2018, the 2019 event was the 32nd SummerSlam and was scheduled to be held on August 11, 2019, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, being the second SummerSlam to be held at this particular venue, after the 2004 event. It featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. Storylines The event comprised 12 matches, including three on the Kickoff pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines, in which wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live, and the cruiserweight-exclusive 205 Live. At WrestleMania 35, Seth Rollins defeated Brock Lesnar to win the Universal Championship. Lesnar then disappeared from television for several weeks before inserting himself in the 2019 Money in the Bank ladder match and won, earning a match for a world championship of his choice at any time within the next year. After teasing some cash-ins, Lesnar finally cashed in his Money in the Bank contract at Extreme Rules and won back the Universal Championship right after Rollins had just retained the title. On the following night's Raw, Rollins won a cross-brand 10-man battle royal to earn a rematch against Lesnar at SummerSlam. During Raw Reunion on July 22, Lesnar's advocate Paul Heyman stated that Lesnar cashed in on Rollins because Rollins had done the same to Lesnar back at WrestleMania 31 in March 2015. On the July 15 episode
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TymeBank is an exclusively digital bank based in South Africa, aimed at the lower income market. Digital banking Headquartered in Rosebank, Johannesburg, TymeBank does not have any physical bank branches and relies on an Android banking App, and Internet Banking site and a partnership with two retail chains, Pick n Pay and Boxer, to host a national network of self-service kiosks that facilitate the account opening process. The Prudential Authority of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), granted permission for TymeBank to operate exclusively online on 28 September 2017. Banking in the cloud TymeBank is the first bank in South Africa to put its core-banking platform in the cloud. 85% of TymeBank's systems are AWS cloud applications that provide system scalability, uniform security and cost efficiencies. TymeBank's use of technology and the strategic relationship with Pick n Pay and Boxer stores eliminates the need for physical branches. The reduced operating costs and the national presence of the retail stores removes the barriers that have traditionally prevented an estimated 11 million unbanked South Africans from accessing banking services. History "Tyme" (Take Your Money Everywhere)*people who received their money from time bank. This originally developed as part of a Deloitte Consulting project, funded by the and telecommunications provider, MTN Group. It went on to become a stand-alone business in June 2012. In 2015, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) acquired 100% of Tyme, and renamed the business TymeDigital by Commonwealth Bank SA. On 28 September 2017, TymeDigital secured an operating licence from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). It was the first full banking licence to be issued by the SARB since 1999. In 2018, financial services company, ARC Imali-Madi (RF), bought a 10% stake in TymeDigital. On 5 November 2018, African Rainbow Capital Financial Services Holdings - owned by South African entrepreneur Patrice Motsepe - obtained approval from the South African Reserve Bank to acquire CBSA’s 90% majority stake in the business. The name of the business was changed in November 2018 from TymeDigital by CommonwealthBank SA to Tyme Bank Limited. TymeBank soft-launched on 5 November 2018, allowing consumers to open a basic transactional bank account at a limited number of kiosks in Pick n Pay Stores as well as online. Ownership Previously wholly owned by African Rainbow Capital Financial Services Holdings, on 10 June 2019 African Rainbow Capital (ARC) and Ethos Private Equity jointly announced an investment of R200 million by the Ethos Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fund and co-investors (jointly Ethos AI Fund) into Tyme Bank Holdings. The transaction is subject to all conditions precedent being met. The investment by the Ethos AI Fund in TymeBank will result in the fund being an 8% shareholder in the bank. ARC announced in December 2021 that Tencent and CDC Group had become shareholders in TymeBank. This capital raising was expected to support TymeBank's emerging markets expansion. Business model and milestones TymeBank offers a transactional account, money transfer service, savings account and educational App. There are plans to introduce credit cards, unsecured loans,
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Den of Thieves (released in some countries as Criminal Squad) is a 2018 American heist action film written, directed, and produced by Christian Gudegast. It stars Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo McRae, and Max Holloway. In the film, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department clique look to stop a gang of thieves consisting of ex-MARSOC Marines that is planning to rob the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles. Den of Thieves was distributed by STXfilms and released in the United States on January 19, 2018. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $80 million worldwide. A sequel, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is scheduled to be released in 2024. Plot In Los Angeles, a team of ex-MARSOC Marines led by Ray Merrimen hijack an armored truck. The ensuing shootout with police leaves several dead, including one of Merrimen's crew, as the hijackers escape with the empty truck. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Nick “Big Nick” O'Brien and his team, the Major Crimes Unit, investigates the robbery, making the recently paroled Merrimen his prime suspect. Nick's team kidnap Donnie Wilson, a bartender who confesses to acting as the thieves' unarmed getaway driver. He describes a large sum of cash stolen from a stadium by the crew, but denies knowing their future plans and is released. Merrimen and his crew prepare to rob the heavily guarded Federal Reserve: with approximately $30 million in old bills removed from circulation each day, they plan to steal the untraceable money before it is shredded. Nick's team tails Donnie, who is hired as a Chinese food delivery driver, allowing him to deliver inside the Federal Reserve. A confrontation with Nick leads Merrimen's crew to suspect Donnie is an informant. Interrogated at gunpoint, he admits he was questioned by Nick; to his surprise, Merrimen orders him to tell Nick when the heist is taking place. Donnie informs Nick but denies knowing the location. Nick sleeps with Merrimen's girlfriend, who – acting on Merrimen's instructions – reveals the crew will be robbing a bank in Pico Rivera. On the day of the heist, as Nick’s team waits nearby running surveillance, Merrimen's crew takes the Pico Rivera Savings & Loan bank hostage, demanding a ransom and a helicopter. When the FBI attempt to negotiate, the crew appears to execute a female hostage. The thieves access the vault and detonate explosives inside, leading Nick to realize this is not their usual M.O. He impatiently storms the bank himself to find the hostages alive, bound and hooded while the thieves have blown their way into the sewers and escaped. Merrimen and his right-hand man Enson infiltrate the Federal Reserve, using the stolen armored truck and stadium money to pose as security guards dropping off cash. Donnie, hidden inside a cart of cash, is wheeled inside a counting room as the thieves disrupt the room's power, making it seem like a common brownout. The employees are briefly sent away, and Donnie
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Girma Bekele Gebre (; born 29 December 1992) is an Ethiopian marathon runner who finished third at the 2019 New York City Marathon as a non-elite runner. Gebre also won the 2018 Brooklyn Half Marathon, and came third in the 1,500 metres event at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics. Personal life Gebre splits his time between living in New York and Ethiopia. In 2019, he moved back to Ethiopia after the death of one of his brothers. His brother Alemu Bekele competed for Bahrain at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Career When in New York, Gebre competes for the West Side Runners, and has won multiple club races. Whilst in Ethiopia, he trains at altitude in Addis Ababa. In 2009, Gebre came third in the 1,500 metres event at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics. In 2016, Gebre came fourth at the Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5-K event in New York City. In 2018, Gebre won the Brooklyn Half Marathon, in a time of 1:04:56. In the same year, he finished third at the Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5-K event, ninth at the Broad Street Run, and came 19th in the 2018 New York City Marathon. He also came third in the 10k event at the Bermuda Marathon Weekend, and competed in a 5k race in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2019, Gebre finished the Pittsburgh Marathon in a time of 2:13:46. Gebre entered the 2019 New York City Marathon as a non-elite runner, and had to pay an entry fee for the event, rather than receiving an appearance fee as elite athletes did. Gebre didn't have a sponsor or an agent, and the night before the race, he stayed with a friend in The Bronx and slept on a couch. In the race, he joined the lead pack in Brooklyn, where the elite and non-elite courses met. He was in the front group of five runners after of the race, and was in the front four after another runner dropped away from the lead pack. He finished third in the race, and his finishing time of 2:08:38 was 25 seconds behind race winner Geoffrey Kamworor. He finished ahead of more experienced Ethiopians Tamirat Tola and Shura Kitata, and beat his previous personal best by over five minutes. Gebre won $40,000 for finishing in third place, $15,000 for finishing in under 2:09:00, and $5,000 for being the highest ranked runner from New York in the race. Gebre said he would use the money to help his family, and it took him 18 months to receive his prize money, as he doesn't have an American bank account. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gebre worked on a farm in Ethiopia. Awards In January 2020, Gebre was awarded the New York Road Runners male runner of the year award. References 1992 births Living people Ethiopian male marathon runners Ethiopian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
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The Button is a British game show produced by Avalon Television. It aired on BBC One and features teams of families who participate in challenges at random intervals throughout the day for cash prizes. The families interact with "the button" who sets the challenges. At the end of the episode, the family which has won the money can choose to keep it and not appear on the next episode, or can appear next time but risk losing the money they have won. The show was promoted as "a cross between Gogglebox and Taskmaster", and was created by the same team that created Taskmaster. History In August 2017, producers were looking for contestants to take part in the programme. The show was scheduled to start filming in October 2017. It first aired on 20 April 2018 on BBC One. Participants Bold indicates that the participants won the episode. Italic indicates that the participants won the previous episode but returned and lost the episode. Bold/Italic indicates that the participants won and took the money. Game When the Button turns from green to red the contestants have to hit it to be set a challenge. All five families have to complete the same challenge, and the family to complete it the fastest will win the prize money for that challenge. There are five challenges per episode with the first challenge being worth £1,000, the second being worth £2,000 and so on. The family who wins the most money in an episode can choose to exit the series banking their prize money. However, they can also choose to play the next episode rolling over their prize money with an additional £10,000 bonus but if they lose the next episode then they lose all their money. The challenges themselves are all completed in the families living rooms where the Button is placed. The challenges vary greatly, some examples include: Building a tower from pillows, books and cans Bouncing a ping-pong ball into a cup Reciting the alphabet backwards without vowels Naming the 5th Harry Potter book Finding a person called Gary Reception The List gave the game show 3/5, The Custard TV said that "the game show borrows heavily from Gogglebox", The Guardian gave the game show 2/5, and Radio Times said that "[v]iewers had provoked a strong reaction, with many taking to social media to express feelings of deep hatred or love for the series opener". Transmissions See also Ant & Dec's Push the Button, a game show presented by Ant & Dec References External links Avalonuk 2018 British television series debuts 2018 British television series endings 2010s British game shows BBC television game shows BBC high definition shows British English-language television shows
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Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene () is a 2015 Indian Hindi comedy thriller film directed by Gurmmeet Singh and produced by Devinder Jain and Akhilesh Jain. It features Zayed Khan, Rannvijay Singh and Tina Desai in lead roles. The screenplay is written by Anand Kumar and Rajesh Chawla with dialogues credited to Rajesh Chawla and Vivek Chaudhary. It was released in India on 16 January 2015. Plot Prithvi Khuranna (Zayed Khan), a middle class working professional, has to work hard in order to survive in the city and also to pay the landlord's rent plus other 'unavoidable' expenses until one day he discovers that his account has been credited with 100 crores (i.e. 1 billion rupees)! Finding this hard to believe, he calls up the bank's customer care where he hears that his account has been upgraded to the 'platinum class'. Before this news can sink in his system, he gets a call from an unknown number with the caller claiming to be the notorious gangster Dawood. Dawood then "orders" Prithvi to get into a mutually profitable deal with him where he has to deliver large sums of money at different times and places to Dawood's henchwoman lady Rasheeda (Talia Bentson). Prithvi immediately calls up his roommate Sam (Rannvijay Singh), who thrives on women and money (easy money, to be precise), to share the news with him. Just as the duo is busy planning what to do with the whopping amount of money, the bank's Vice President D.K. Thawani (Anupam Kher) shows up on his doorstep to offer his personalised service to his 'esteemed customer'. All of this startles Prithvi to no end. Seeing Prithvi behave 'abnormally', his ever-so-concerned girlfriend Megha (Tina Desai), who is a TV journalist by profession, immediately calls her top-cop uncle G.S. Chaddha (Yuri Suri) who then starts tracking Prithvi's phone calls. Prithvi's confidence levels take a downturn when he discovers that D.K. Thawani is actually Dawood's man in the disguise of a bank manager. Just when things are getting settled down, life again takes an upturn for Prithvi when he hears the breaking news about Dawood's sudden death on the TV channels. Needless to say, Dawood's death means that Prithvi becomes the sole owner of the remaining 600 million in his bank account. Prithvi tells the whole story to Megha and they both decide to go to police the next day but Sam convinces them to enjoy and party for once before returning all the money. While at the club Prithvi gets a call from Dawood and Megha gets abducted only to be found unconscious in Prithvi's car. Shocked by this incident Sam confesses to them that the calls from Dawood were fake and were made by Rasheeda (whose real name is Rachel). Sam has actually won an online lottery from a link send by Rachel but by using Prithvi's Debit card. On winning the prize money of 1 billion the whole amount got transferred in Prithvi's bank account. Hence Sam and Rachel faked the Dawood
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Pepper Money Limited, known as Pepper Money, is a consumer finance company that specialises in consumer lending and residential mortgages. It is part of Pepper Financial Services Group, which has offices in Ireland, Spain, South Korea and the United Kingdom. History Pepper Money was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Between 2006 and 2010 Pepper was operated by Merrill Lynch. In July 2015, Pepper listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with a market capitalization of A$470 million, which increased to $600 million in the first day of trading. Pepper Money was acquired by KKR for $657 million in November 2017 and was delisted from the ASX. In 2017 it partnered with Pollenizer to back SmallStash a fintech start-up that aimed to focus on financial education for kids and assisting parents to better educate their children on money and savings. On 25 May 2021, Pepper was relisted on the ASX and has around 2000 employees worldwide. Sponsorship Pepper has sponsored the St Kilda Football Club since 2015, and previously sponsored the Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club between 2013 and 2018. Pepper Money was the principal sponsor of the Illawarra Hawks NBL team for the 2021 season. Awards In 2019, Pepper won the Best Non-Bank Lender in the annual Australian Lending Awards. In 2021, Pepper won the Best Specialist Lender in the Australian Lending Awards. In 2022, Pepper won Non-Bank of The Year at the Australian Mortgage Awards and was listed as a top-10 innovator on AFR BOSS' Most Innovative Companies list. References Asset management Companies based in Sydney Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Kohlberg Kravis Roberts companies Mortgage lenders 2000 establishments in Australia
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Cherry is a 2018 novel by American author Nico Walker. It concerns an unnamed narrator's time in college, as a soldier during the War in Iraq, and life as a drug addict and bank robber after returning from the war during the midst of the American opioid epidemic. The novel is an example of autofiction, as Walker was a military veteran who struggled with drug addiction and robbed banks, but there are several differences between the author's real-life actions and the main character's fictional actions. A film adaptation was released in 2021. Synopsis The unnamed narrator, a young man from Cleveland, drops out of college and enlists in the United States Army as a medic during the Iraq War. Suffering from PTSD, the narrator starts self-medicating with opiates while deployed and continues once back home. His opioid use quickly becomes a devastating addiction that hurts his attempts at furthering his education and his personal relationships. After reigniting his relationship with his ex girlfriend, who enables his opioid abuse, the narrator begins to run out of money and decides to start robbing banks to pay for his and his girlfriend's habit. Development Writing Walker had been in a federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, for bank robbery since 2013, and wrote the book on a typewriter over the course of several years. He was released early from prison in October 2019. Cover Janet Hansen, a designer at Alfred Knopf, created the book cover, which features a skull originally by Swedish graphic designer Daniel Bjugård. Walker’s literary agent dismissed an earlier version with "[it looked] like it should be sold in Hot Topic". Reception The book was published to positive reviews and "near-universal praise" as per the review aggregator website Book Marks and Vulture.com, respectively. Book Marks reported that 54% of critics gave the book a "rave" review, whilst 31% of the critics expressed "positive" impressions, based on a sample of 13 reviews. Cherry debuted at number 14 on The New York Times bestseller list. The book and the film adaptation have been criticized for presenting the bank robber sympathetically, while overlooking the innocent victims of the crime, such as the bank employees caught in the crime spree. Film adaptation Because Walker only had limited phone access while in prison, the negotiations for a film adaptation were unusually long. Days after publication, filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo, through their studio AGBO, bought the production rights for $1 million then signed on to direct and produce from a screenplay by Jessica Goldberg. In March 2019, it was confirmed that Tom Holland was cast in the lead role. Filming began in October 2019. Ciara Bravo, Bill Skarsgård, Jack Reynor, Jeff Wahlberg, Kyle Harvey, Forrest Goodluck and Michael Gandolfini were added in October. Filming wrapped on January 20, 2020. After early distribution talks with Netflix, the Russo brothers struck a deal with Apple TV+ in September 2020. Cherry was theatrically released February 26, 2021 and premiered on the streaming service on March 12, 2021. References 2018
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Spice Money (SML) is an Indian Rural financial services company headquartered in Noida. It was founded in 2000 by Dilip Modi, who serves as the chairman and group CEO of DiGiSPICE Technologies. SML is a subsidiary of DiGiSPICE Technologies. It provides financial services, such as money transfer, cash deposit, account opening, bill payments, mini ATMs and more services. It engages with local individuals (Adhikaris) to assist its customers with banking requirements. In 2021, the company reported having more than a million Adhikaris on its platform. History Spice Money began its operations as a digital wallet under the name Spice Digital Limited. Later, the company expanded into ticketing, bill payment, banking, and micro ATM services. It operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Digispice Technologies. In 2017, the company launched its micro ATM and bill pay services, followed by the mPOS service in 2018, which earned Spice Money the NPCI National Payments Excellence Award. In January 2018, Spice Money received its final license from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit (BBPOU) within the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS). In 2020, the company launched a proposition to assist nanopreneurs with onboarding. This initiative helped entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas by launching products like, AEPS, IRCTC ticketing, Cash Management services (CMS), Lending etc. In August 2021, the company announced the establishment of an ATM network with 1 lakh micro-ATMs operating across rural India. In September 2023, a strategic partnership was formed with Grameen Foundation for Social Impact (GFSI) India, a non-profit organization supporting underserved communities. Spice Money also partnered with NSDL Payments Bank and Axis Bank, enabling the opening of zero-balance savings or current accounts for rural citizens through its Adhikari platform. Media appearances In February 2021, the company launched its brand campaign titled 'Spice Money Toh Life Bani,' featuring Sonu Sood as brand ambassador. In September 2022, Spice Money was featured in the first episode of The Great Indian Disruptors on Disney+Hotstar, presented by Digital Refresh Networks. Spice Money was featured in ET Now's Leaders of Tomorrow and Zee TV's Naya Bharat Sunehra Amrit Kaal. Awards 2023: Awarded the SKOCH Award for the Best Fintech Growth Story Controversy In December 2021, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a monetary penalty on Spice Money, for non-compliance with norms, as stated in a central bank announcement. Spice Money incurred fines of ₹1 crore. References Technology companies of India Financial services companies of India Companies based in Noida Financial services companies established in 2000 Indian brands Mobile payments in India 2000 establishments in Uttar Pradesh Indian companies established in 2000 Modi Enterprises
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Major Grom () is a 2017 Russian short action film directed by Vladimir Besedin, based on the comic character Major Grom. Plans to make a film were announced at Comic-Con Russia in October 2015, when Bubble Comics announced the creation of its own film division, Bubble Studios. The script was completed on 23 February 2016. The filming process began in mid-August in Saint Petersburg and continued until 28 August 2016. The short film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2017 as test footage for a full-length film production, to be released in 2018. It later became available for general public viewing on 21 February 2017 through Bubble Comics' YouTube channel and on the site Life.ru, the latter gaining more than 1.7 million views on the first day of the film's release there. On 9 March 2017, it was screened on the Russian television station Channel One. On 21 July 2017, the short film was screened during the San Diego Comic Con and included a Q&A session with its creators—Vladimir Besedin, Artyom Gabrelyanov, and Roman Kotkov. The story is about a major in the MVD of St. Petersburg, Igor Grom, who tries to stop the robbery of a bank, save the hostages, and arrest a gang of three bandits hiding their identity under the masks of characters from the Soviet cartoon Puck! Puck!. Plot Three armed men, dressed in red sports suits and disguised as villainous hockey players from the popular Soviet cartoon Puck! Puck!, break into a bank in St Petersburg. They intimidate visitors and try to find the manager in order to obtain the keys to the bank safe. Unable to find him, the leader of the gang grabs a little girl and threatens to shoot her if the manager does not come to him in a few seconds. As a result, a man appears from the opposite side of the room, claiming to be the manager and wearing the manager's badge. The leader sends another member of the gang, nicknamed "Psycho", with the "manager" to the safe. They approach the door, and the man opens it. The bandit first roars in anger, not seeing a mountain of money in front of him, but later finds the money inside a separate depository for cash savings and gold. In his euphoria, the robber begins feverishly putting everything into a cart. He eventually notices that the manager's face does not match the photo on his badge. Having been exposed, the man attacks the robber and knocks him out. Nervous because of the long absence of "Psycho", the gang leader sends the third member of the gang, "Buster", to see what is happening. "Buster" finds "Psycho" unconscious on the floor inside the safe room and tries to revive him, when the false manager appears from the shadows, subduing him. The mysterious man comes out of the vault and meets a bank guard. He introduces himself as Igor Grom, police major. The film flashes back to
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The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) is the national central agency in Malta responsible for receiving, analyzing, and disseminating financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorism financing. It was founded on October 1, 2002. The FIAU is an independent government agency. It operates as the national financial intelligence unit (FIU) in compliance with international standards and frameworks. Powers and functions The FIAU collects financial intelligence and passes it on to the police, who can then carry out criminal investigations or arrest/prosecute any person. The FIAU also exchanges information with foreign financial intelligence agencies and supervisory authorities in Malta or overseas to investigate suspicious financial activities. As an administrative intelligence agency, FIAU can demand and collect information from any individual, authority, or entity, including the police, government ministry, public department/agency, and any supervisory authority. Such a demand for information "overrides any obligation of secrecy or confidentiality under any other law." FIAU operates independently and its activities are not disclosed on the public domain. Activities In 2022, FIAU organized its first international conference of bank account register administrators and other specialists from 21 European countries, which was endorsed by the European Commission. Notable cases and controversies According to its 2019 annual report, the FIAU forwarded 61 cases of money laundering to the police for investigation. In addition, it received more than 2,500 suspicious transaction reports from banks, legal professionals, casinos, gaming companies and real estate agencies, up by 65% from the previous year. The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit operates opposite Malta's financial entities. One of its primary responsibilities is enforcing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation. Over the years, the FIAU expanded the criteria for violations under said legislation, leading to increased administrative penalties. Administrative penalties in 2021 increased to €12.4 million from €4.7 million in 2020, creating speculations among experts in the financial sector that FIAU is enjoying the "moral authority to impose fines." The FIAU gained media attention due to its case against Pilatus Bank in 2018. In September 2022, Pilatus Bank owner Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, won his case in front of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, which recommended a suspension of all proceedings by Malta against Ali Sadr until it decided on the case, after he claimed that he was wrongfully prosecuted by the Maltese financial authorities. See also Malta Financial Services Authority References External links 2002 establishments in Malta Government agencies established in 2002 Financial regulatory authorities of Malta
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The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday, 2 July 2018 and finished on Sunday, 15 July 2018. Novak Djokovic won the gentlemen's singles title and Angelique Kerber won the ladies' singles title. The 2018 tournament was the 132nd edition of The Championships, the 125th staging of the ladies' singles Championship event, the 51st in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior tour and the NEC Tour. The tournament was organised by All England Lawn Tennis Club and International Tennis Federation. Roger Federer and Garbiñe Muguruza were both unsuccessful in defending their 2017 titles. Federer lost in the quarterfinals to eventual finalist Kevin Anderson, while Muguruza lost in the second round to Alison Van Uytvanck. Tournament The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was the 132nd edition of the tournament and was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys' (under 18 – singles and doubles) and girls' (under 18 – singles and doubles), which was also a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played only on grass courts; the main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches were played, from Monday 25 June to Thursday 28 June 2018, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The Tennis sub-committee met to decide wild card entries on 19 June. Point and prize money distribution Point distribution Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament. Senior points Wheelchair points Junior points Prize money The Wimbledon total prize money for 2018 had increased to £34,000,000, up by 7.6% on 2017. The winners of the men's and women's singles titles will earn £2.25m. Prize money for the men's and women's doubles and wheelchair players were also increased for the 2018 competition. A new rule in 2018 was that any first round singles player who is unfit to play and withdraws on-site after 12pm on Thursday before the start of the Main Draw will now receive half of the First Round prize money, the other half to be awarded to the replacement lucky loser. Any player who competes in the First Round Main Draw singles and retires or performs below professional standards, may now be subject to a fine of up to First
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War of Money (; also known as Money's Warfare) is a 2007 South Korean television drama series adaptation of Park In-kwon's comic of the same name. Starring Park Shin-yang and Park Jin-hee, it aired on SBS from May 16 to July 19, 2007 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Originally scheduled for 16 episodes, due to its popularity it was extended to 20, but only Park Shin-yang starred in the four-episode "bonus round." Plot Geum Na-ra was once a top-ranked investment banker, until his life falls apart when his debt-ridden father commits suicide after constantly being harassed by loan sharks. Traumatized, his mother collapses and is rushed to the hospital. Na-ra applies for a bank loan but is flatly denied, and his disgruntled boss takes advantage of Na-ra's troubles and uses them as an excuse to fire him. His mother eventually dies, despite his and his sister Eun-ji's (Lee Young-eun) desperate efforts to obtain cash to pay for her hospital fees. Newlywed Eun-ji had become a room salon hostess, while Na-ra agreed to break up with his longtime girlfriend Lee Cha-yeon (Kim Jung-hwa) in exchange for cash from Cha-yeon's disapproving grandmother Madam Bong (Yeo Woon-kay). Believing that it's the source of all evil, Na-ra declares war on money and becomes obsessed with avenging his parents' deaths. However, realizing the only way to defeat his enemy is to understand the enemy, Na-ra decides to become a loan shark himself, and begins working as a ruthless money collector for the notorious loan shark Ma Dong-po (Lee Won-jong), while learning the trade secrets along with life's philosophies from the old and legendary pro Dokgo Chul (Shin Goo) who reluctantly takes Na-ra under his wing. Na-ra enters into a rivalry with Ha Woo-sung (Shin Dong-wook), another moneylender who works for Madam Bong and has secretly loved Cha-yeon for years. Then Na-ra meets Seo Joo-hee (Park Jin-hee). Joo-hee was supposed to marry a divorced man to solve her family's financial problems, but on the day of the wedding, Na-ra showed up to collect the debts and ended up ruining her plans. Joo-hee vows to take her revenge on him but she falls in love with him instead. When Na-ra learns that his gangster boss Ma Dong-po was the very man responsible for his father's death, he keeps his cool, waiting for the right time and the right place to seek his revenge. Meanwhile, competition between banks and loan sharks is getting tense and a war over money threatens to erupt. Cast Main characters Park Shin-yang as Geum Na-ra Park Jin-hee as Seo Joo-hee Shin Dong-wook as Ha Woo-sung Kim Jung-hwa as Lee Cha-yeon Supporting characters Shin Goo as Dokgo Chul Lee Won-jong as Ma Dong-po Lee Young-eun as Geum Eun-ji Jung Jae-soon as Lee Kyung-ja Nam Il-woo as Geum Sang-soo Park In-hwan as Seo In-chul Jung Soo-young as Kim Hyun-jung Jang Dong-jik as Kang In-hyuk Yeo Woon-kay as Madam Bong Kim Roi-ha as Kim Dong-goo Lee Moon-sik as boss of securities company
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Pockit is a British financial technology company offering pre-paid spending cards, current accounts, and a range of other pseudo-bank financial services. The mobile-first service aimed to make money simple for low-income 'unbanked' customers, with products and services tailored specifically for them. Since its foundation, the company has 500,000 customers. History Pockit was founded in 2014 by Virraj Jatania to provide a better banking product to financially underserved customers and tackle issues around financial inclusion in the UK. Their digital current account supported online payments, direct debits and had built in tools to help people take control of their spending. In 2018, Pockit introduced a feature to help customers build their credit score, provided in partnership with LOQBOX. There are an estimated ten million people who have previously been neglected or excluded by traditional high street banks that Pockit aims to serve better, regardless of their income or credit history. In 2019 Pockit published its ‘Banking Poverty Premium’ report which revealed how people without access to a bank account pay up to £485 extra each year because they miss out on preferential discounts on everyday bills and basic services such as utility bills, mobile phone contracts, broadband and personal loans. At the end of June 2020, some accounts became inaccessible due to the FCA suspending Wirecard's ability to move money. The restrictions were lifted on 29 June and operations returned to normal. In November 2020 Pockit obtained a further round of speculative funding and crowdsourced investment. Awards In 2018, Pockit won The Spectator Economic Disrupter of the year award. External links References Online banks Banks established in 2014 2014 establishments in the United Kingdom Banks of the United Kingdom
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</noinclude> The Swiss sovereign money initiative of June 2018, also known as Vollgeld, was a citizens' (popular) initiative in Switzerland intended to give the Swiss National Bank the sole authority to create money. On 10 June 2018, the initiative was defeated in the vote, with 76% per cent of voters rejecting it. Origin and proposal Proposals for "full-reserve banking", going also by titles such as "debt-free money," have been repeatedly presented to the public and then attacked by both mainstream and heterodox economists who suggest that supporters of such "populist" schemes misunderstand central-bank operations, money creation, and how the banking system works. Russian-born British economist Abba Lerner, in 1943, had advocated that the central bank could start "printing money" to match government deficit-spending "sufficient to achieve and sustain full employment." According to the initiative's supporters, money is created as debt, and comes into existence by debt creation when commercial banks borrow from central banks, and when governments, producers, or consumers borrow from commercial banks. Proponents do not want money creation to be under private control as this constitutes a "subsidy" to the banking sector. They consider money created by the banks to create significantly adverse effects, such as inflation (since "the more money [the banks] issue, the higher their profits"), and amplification of crises (since borrowing occurs pro-cyclically). Furthermore, they claim that bank deposits are not inherently safe. The proposal for the referendum was initiated in 2014 by the Monetary Modernisation Association, a Swiss non-governmental organization founded in 2011. The collection of signatures began in June 2014 and resulted in over 110,000 valid signatures. The initiative was submitted to the Federal Chancellery in December 2015. On 31 January 2018, the Swiss state scheduled the referendum for 10 June 2018, with two issues on the ballot, one about gambling, and another about money creation by banks. The Sovereign Money Initiative aims to give the Swiss Confederation a monopoly on money creation, including demand deposit (full-reserve banking), by including the creation of scriptural money in the legal mandate of the Swiss National Bank. The Swiss National Bank opposed the initiative. The referendum does not concern the printing of banknotes or the minting of coins, as this remains under the exclusive authority of the Swiss National Bank, i.e. the nation's central bank, which has had this right since 1891. The Federal Constitution states that "The Confederation [i.e. the Swiss state] is responsible for money and currency; the Confederation has the exclusive right to issue coins and banknotes" (article 99). Thus, the creation of cash, today less than 10% of all the money in circulation, remain under the control of the central bank. Reactions to the proposal The Swiss National Bank chairman, Thomas Jordan, warned that "Acceptance of the initiative would plunge the Swiss economy into a period of extreme uncertainty" because "Switzerland would have an untested financial system that would differ fundamentally from that of any other country". The Deutsche Bundesbank does not support the initiative. In 2016, The Economist commented that the
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Yu Liu (born 15 November 1995) is a Chinese professional golfer and member of the LPGA Tour. Amateur career Liu was born in Beijing and had a successful junior career where she won several tournaments in the U.S. and China. She reached the semifinals of the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship in 2011, won by Ariya Jutanugarn. Liu attended Duke University and played golf with the Duke Blue Devils women's golf team for the 2013–14 season, where she was named Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year. Liu secured her first victory in a professional tournament at the 2013 Srixon XXIO Ladies Open on the China LPGA Tour. Professional career Liu turned professional in 2014 and joined the Symetra Tour in 2015. In 2017, she was runner-up at the Florida's Natural Charity Classic, Guardian Championship and Symetra Tour Championship. She won the Tullymore Classic to become the third player from China to ever win on the Symetra Tour, joining Yueer Cindy Feng (2014) and Hong Mei Yang (2004). She finished fifth on the money list to earn LPGA Tour membership for 2018. In her rookie LPGA Tour season, she made 21 cuts in 27 events, to finish 49th on the money list and third in the Rookie of the Year standings. She had three top-10 finishes including a tie for 7th at the 2018 Women's British Open. In 2019, she finished tied 5th at the 2019 U.S. Women's Open, and was runner-up at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup. She finished 20th on the money list and reached a high of 31st in the Women's World Golf Rankings. By 2021, she had pocketed almost $2 million in career earnings. Amateur wins 2009 CITIC Bank China Amateur Tour Final 2010 CITIC Bank China Amateur Tour Final, Tee Up Junior Challenge, Killington Junior Golf Championship 2011 Under Armour/Vicky Hurst Championship 2012 Chongqing Challenge 2014 Darius Rucker Intercollegiate Source: Professional wins (2) Symetra Tour wins (1) China LPGA Tour wins (1) 2013 Srixon XXIO Ladies Open (as an amateur) Results in LPGA majors Results not in chronological order. CUT = missed the half-way cut NT = no tournament "T" = tied Team appearances Professional International Crown (representing China): 2023 References External links Chinese female golfers Duke Blue Devils women's golfers LPGA Tour golfers Sportspeople from Beijing 1995 births Living people
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Positive Money UK is a not-for-profit advocacy group based in London and Brussels. Positive Money's mission is to promote various reforms of central banks and alternative monetary policy. Its current executive director is geophysicist Fran Boait. History Positive Money was founded in London by Ben Dyson in 2010 as a response to the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. In its early years, Positive Money focused its efforts in advocating for a fundamental reform of the United Kingdom's monetary system. In 2013, Fran Boait became executive director of Positive money. Under Boait's leadership, the organisation somehow broadened its scope and diversified its range of proposals, by including more pragmatic steps such as digital currency, and various forms of monetary financing proposals such as "People's QE" or "helicopter money", and "green quantitative easing". Positive Money also adopted new tactics such as rallies in front of the Bank of England and petitioning. In 2013, Positive Money initiated the International Movement for Monetary Reform, a worldwide network of likeminded organisations. In 2015, Positive money started its international expansion by launching a Eurozone-wide campaign on "Quantitative Easing for the People". Positive money registered as a lobby group in the EU institutions in Brussels and in 2018 it formally created Positive Money Europe to operate the group's campaigns towards the European Central Bank and the European Parliament. In December 2019, Positive Money Europe was able to meet with the ECB President Christine Lagarde and its work has been praised by former ECB's chief economist Peter Praet. In 2016 Positive money founder Ben Dyson joined the Bank of England as a researcher, and he continued to work on Central Bank Digital Currency. Early 2021, Positive money won a major victory with the announcement that the Bank of England would be given the remit to green its corporate quantitative easing programme. Proposals Sovereign money Positive Money's historical backbone proposal is to introduce a "sovereign money system". Under such a reform, private banks would be deprived from their ability to create money by extending credit into the economy. In turn, the Bank of England would regain the monopoly over money creation, by financing the government's budget (monetary financing) or distributing a citizens' dividend ("helicopter money"). The group however refutes any affiliation with Modern Monetary Theory. Although Positive Money's proposal is similar to full-reserve banking or narrow banking, it differs in the sense that it would merge bank deposits and central bank money. As explained by former Positive Money researcher Frank van Lerven, "Under a Sovereign Money system, there is no longer a split circulation of money, just one integrated quantity of money circulating among banks and non-banks alike." According to former ECB Vice-president Vitor Constancio, Positive Money's proposal "would not create enough funding for investment and growth." Other proposals Over the years, Positive Money has broadened its agenda towards somewhat more short-term proposals such as: Fiscal-monetary cooperation: the organisation proposes various ways to channel money created by central banks towards public spending and investment. Reforming the governance and accountability
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Un eroe borghese (also known as Ordinary Hero and An Ordinary Hero) is a 1995 Italian historical drama film directed by Michele Placido. It is a dramatization of the downfall of the Michele Sindona's financial empire and of the subsequent Giorgio Ambrosoli's murder in 1979. The film won the David di Donatello for Best Producer and a special David di Donatello given to Placido for the "recognized narrative, artistic and civil value of his work". Plot The film takes place in Milan in the seventies and tells the story of the lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli and his investigations into the illicit financial activities of the Sicilian banker Michele Sindona, of whose banks he had been appointed liquidator. In 1974, the lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli was appointed liquidator of the Italian Private Bank: forty, a fair, honest man in love with his wife Annalori and three children - Filippo, Francesca, Umberto - he got to work, while outside clients and depositors riot over their accounts. An indefatigable worker, Ambrosoli does not yet know in what tangle of mysteries he finds himself and what challenge he has taken on: the Bank, based in Milan, is in fact owned by the Sicilian Michele Sindona, an ultra-powerful financier. The "map" of the banks and companies it owns is very dense, in Italy and beyond the border. Sindona has fled to New York and from the Hotel Pierre gives his orders: the mafia supports him and huge amounts of money come out of Italy, or re-enter in obscure money laundering operations, or spread like a metastasis in the great Sicilian empire, who has built close relationships not only with other financial men, but with politicians and industrialists. Ambrosoli is helped by Silvio Novembre, Marshal of the Guardia di Finanza, who from a collaborator becomes his friend, while the internal environment of the bank opposes the liquidator and the Bank of Italy itself does not seem to offer him all the necessary support. When wrongdoings, tortuous turns, bogus companies and documentation flaws are discovered for operations of enormous proportions, Sindona, furious, goes on the attack. There will be citations against Ambrosoli, telephone threats and various blandishments, but the lawyer does not yield: he presents his report, which is a real indictment, he refuses to change the conclusions, because - honest as' it is - it seems monstrous and intolerable to him that the State should intervene with payments at its own expense. Meanwhile, the names of politicians at the top are in circulation, such as corrupt or protectors of Sindona who has connections everywhere. Ambrosoli's family life itself has become more than tiring: his wife is alarmed, the children no longer see their father, who luckily found an honest and tenacious collaborator in November. After being invited, in 1978, to testify before the New York Grand Jury, returning to Milan Ambrosoli now has behind him the deadly hatred of Sindona, whose judicial position in the United States is compromised. The mafia itself abandons the financier to his fate,
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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is a financial regulator of Malta. The MFSA was founded in 2002 when it assumed the responsibilities of the Central Bank of Malta, the Malta Stock Exchange, and the Malta Financial Services Centre. It regulates banking, investment, insurance, financial, pension companies and securities markets in Malta. Powers The MFSA has the powers to regulate, monitor, and supervise the financial sector of Malta, protecting the interests of the consumers and promoting the market transparency and efficiency. It has the powers to review business practices, advise the government on policies, and to investigate potential harmful and unfair practices in the financial industry. International relations The MFSA is a member of the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors. Demerger The MFSA was demerged from the Registry of Companies in 2018 in order to focus on its regulatory role and duties. The Registry of Companies is now a stand-alone agency and is now known as the Malta Business Registry (MBR). Notable cases and controversies In June 2016, the MFSA drew criticism from the MEP Sven Giegold for poor regulatory supervision of the Maltese financial institutions. In 2018, Joseph Cuschieri was appointed as CEO of the Malta Financial Services Authority. He started his position accompanied by his close friend Edwina Licari, and during their time at the MFSA, they had more than 35 “business trips” together, where €0.5 million from taxpayers’ money were spent. In 2020, Joseph Cuschieri decided to resign from the role due to the revelations of his closeness with Yorgen Fenech, the main suspect behind the assassination of Daphne Caruana. Edwina Licari still works at MFSA as a General Counsel with a high annual salary of €100,000. In March 2018, the MFSA took control of Pilatus Bank, a Maltese bank headed by Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, whose money laundering scheme of sanctioned Iranian money was exposed by late Daphne Caruana Galizia. Later, in June, the MFSA asked the European Central Bank to withdraw Pilatus Bank's licence. In July of the same year, Pilatus Bank's depositors threatened to sue the MFSA for freezing €80 million in funds held by innocent victims. In October, the bank's directors followed with their own lawsuit to the MFSA. In November 2018, the bank's European licence has been withdrawn by the ECB. In October 2018, the MFSA froze the assets of SataBank due to anti-money laundering concerns. The freeze resulted in vocal criticism of the bank's account holders. The bank is co-owned by Christo Georgiev, the owner of LeoPay startup. In August 2019, the Malta Financial Services Authority became embroiled in scandal after paying €150,000 severance to its human resources department director, George Spiteri, who later was rehired for a similar position by the Malta Business Registry, which branched out of the MFSA just a few weeks earlier. See also List of financial regulatory authorities by jurisdiction References External links
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The Monte Carlo Casino was inaugurated in 1863. Since then the bank has been broken on a number of occasions. The expression "breaking the bank" is used when a gambler wins more money than the reserve held at that particular table in the casino. At the start of each day, every table was funded with a cash reserve of 100,000 francs – known as "the bank". If this reserve was insufficient to pay the winnings, play at that table was suspended while extra funds were brought out from the casino's vaults. In a ceremony devised by François Blanc, the original owner of the casino, a black cloth was laid over the table in question, and the successful player was said to have broken the bank. After an interval the table re-opened and play continued. The names of only a few of the men who broke the bank are known, and some are listed below. Joseph Jagger Joseph Jagger was a Bradford textile engineer who looked for and found imperfections in the balance of a wheel which he exploited to win a fortune and break the bank. The casino responded by redesigning the wheels with moveable partitions and introducing spirit levels so that this method could never be used again. Charles Wells Charles Wells won large sums of money at Monte Carlo when he attended the casino in July–August and November 1891. He is generally thought to have inspired the song "The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo". William Darnborough William Nelson Darnborough (1869–1958), also known as 'Bill Darnborough', was an American gambler from Bloomington, Illinois, who was known for his success in roulette at Monte Carlo from 1904 to 1911. During that time period he amassed a fortune of $415,000 ($11,374,844 in 2020) In one of the more legendary feats, Darnborough bet on the number 5 and won on five successive spins. Kenneth Clark This Scottish industrialist was the father of Kenneth Clark the art historian. It is stated that he "enjoyed gambling and frequented the Casino at Monte Carlo where he met with regular and extraordinary luck. According to Clark, after one such successful evening of roulette, he bought a small, recently created golf course at Sospel, behind Mentone, and then built a hotel there." Arthur de Courcy Bower Arthur Bower—the self-styled "Captain Arthur de Courcy Bower"—was a convicted fraudster who had been sentenced to six months hard labour in 1904. He was subsequently reported to have won the maximum payout eighteen times in a row and to have broken the bank five times on a visit to the casino in 1911. Certain published works claim that it was Bower who inspired the popular song, but as his casino wins occurred some twenty years after the song was published, this would seem an impossibility. References Casinos in Monaco
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Hong Joon-pyo (born 20 November 1953), also spelled as Hong Jun-pyo, is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor who is the current Mayor of Daegu. He previously served as the governor of South Gyeongsang Province, a member of the National Assembly for five terms, and the party leader of the conservative Grand National Party in 2011 and its successor incarnation the Liberty Korea Party from 2017 to 2018. He was the presidential nominee of the Liberty Korea Party in the 2017 South Korean presidential election and came in second place during the general election, losing to Moon Jae-in. Hong ran as a candidate in the 2022 South Korean presidential election for the nomination of the conservative People Power Party and came in second place during the primaries, narrowly losing to Yoon Suk-yeol. Early life and career He was born in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province. Hong graduated from Yeungnam High School and received his undergraduate degree in Public Administration from Korea University. Entry into Politics In January 1996, Hong joined the New Korea Party. He was elected for the Songpa A constituency during the 1996 election and entered the National Assembly for the first time. First tenure as Party Leader (2011) Hong was formerly the chairperson of the Grand National Party(which changed its name to the Saenuri Party in 2012 and again changed its name to the Liberty Korea Party in 2017). He stepped down as the chairperson on 9 December 2011 and was replaced by future President Park Geun-hye. Comments on Park Won-soon On 20 October 2011, Hong criticized Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon's The Beautiful Foundation (아름다운재단) for sending money to left-wing citizen groups. Hong was known to have generated much criticism against Park Won-soon in regards to Park's possible allegation of extorting tax money for his oversea visits. Comments on former Grand National Party He considered to rename the Grand National Party to another name after Park Won-soon won the October 2011 election. Governor of South Gyeongsang Province (2012–2017) Hong was first elected as Governor of South Gyeongsang Province in 2012, and re-elected in 2014. 2017 South Korean presidential election Hong secured the nomination of the Liberty Korea Party. His campaign appealed to older, conservative voters with a platform describing Hong as a "strongman." Hong has stated he wanted to be a strong man similar to Park Chung-hee, a former Korean president and dictator who is popular with older conservatives and whose daughter Park Geun-hye was recently impeached amidst allegations of corruption. Hong finished second among the five major candidates with 24% of the vote behind Moon Jae-in. Second tenure as party leader (2017–2018) Hong was elected as the leader of Liberty Korea Party following his loss in the presidential election. After leading the party to a massive loss in the 2018 local elections on 13 June 2018, Hong resigned as party leader on 14 June 2018. Independent politician (2020–2021) On 17 February 2020, the Liberty Korea Party dissolved and merged with several other parties to become the
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Wave Money (Burmese: ဝေ့မန်းနီး) is a mobile financial services provider in Myanmar which was established in 2016. Its headquarters is located in Yangon, Myanmar. History Wave Money was established in 2015 as a joint venture between Telenor Group, Yoma Bank, Yoma Strategic Holdings and First Myanmar Investment. The founding CEO of Wave Money was Brad Jones, an experienced executive in mobile financial services who had also been the founder of Wing Cambodia in 2008. In August 2016, Wave Money was awarded the license to become the first non-bank institution to work under Myanmar's new Mobile Financial Services Regulation. After two months of launching Wave Money, the number of its subscribers reached 100000 customers and reached 1.3 million as of March 2018. During 2018, transactions amounted to $1.3 billion, which is approx 2 percent of Myanmar's GDP, and raised to $4.3 billion during 2019. In June 2018, in association with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wave Money launched Shwe Toe, a financial education gamification app that aims to help young women with a better understanding of financial concepts. In March 2019, Wave Money collaborated with Myanmar Economic Bank to provide mobile pension payments to government pensioners. In November 2019, Yoma Strategic acquired 10% stake from First Myanmar Investment. In May 2020, Alibaba Group's fintech arm, Ant Financial Group announced an investment of $73.5 million with the intention to make a 33% stake in WaveMoney by way of new share issuance. In June 2020, Yoma Strategic founded Yoma MFS (Wave Holdco) with the plan of acquiring Telenor's entire 51% stake in Wave Money. References Telecommunications in Myanmar Internet in Myanmar Companies based in Yangon 2016 establishments in Myanmar Joint ventures Online payments
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Derek Carl Bunch (born October 28, 1961) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), who played for the Washington Redskins as a replacement. He played college football at Michigan State. In 2018, Bunch was awarded a Super Bowl ring for playing for the Redskins in 1987, the year they won Super Bowl XXII. Career Bunch played for the Michigan State Spartans in college. He was on the starting team during his senior year, alongside Carl Banks, after being injured the previous year. The team's position coach, Norm Parker, decided to keep Bunch and Banks on the same sides of the field throughout the season, unlike previous years where linebackers would move around based on the strength of the formation. Bunch was drafted by the Portland Breakers of the United States Football League (USFL), but he declined to join the 1985 NFL Draft, where he went undrafted. He joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1985, but was cut from the team. He was also cut by the 49ers in 1986 and the Minnesota Vikings in 1987. In 1987, the Washington Redskins hired him to be a replacement player on the team. He played three games, winning each one. He got half a share of playoff money, amounting to roughly 27,000 dollars. Bunch, along with the other replacements, was mentioned in an ESPN documentary titled Year of the Scab and was the inspiration for the 2000 film The Replacements. In 2018, Bunch was awarded a Super Bowl ring for playing for the Redskins in 1987, the year they won Super Bowl XXII. Personal life Bunch has a wife named Pyper, and three children, named Kristin, Derek Jr., and Dominion. References 1961 births Living people American football linebackers Michigan State Spartans football players Washington Redskins players Players of American football from Dayton, Ohio
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PayMe (officially known as PayMe from HSBC) is a mobile payment service from HSBC, currently available only for Hong Kong users with local phone numbers and banks. Users can pay businesses, transfer money to one another using a mobile app, linked to their credit card or (any local) bank account. As of Nov 2022, the service had around 2.9 million active users, out of a Hong Kong population of 7.3 million, with a market share of 50%. History On its launch on 8 February 2017, heavy traffic meant that some users were unable to register, leading to media dubbing the service "Play Me". Topping up was only possible from a Visa or Mastercard credit card, with a limit of HK$10,000 per month. In April 2018, the app won the FinTech Grand Award in the official Hong Kong ICT Awards. From June 2018, users were able to link to a local bank account, with monthly top-up limits raised to HK$30,000, or HK$50,000 with a verified residential address. At the same time, PayMe launched an online shopping payment service, in collaboration with HKTVmall. In July 2019, PayMe introduced the support of FPS (Faster Payment System) for transfer and top-up, along with a complete redesign of the app. At the same time, PayMe lowered the top-up limit for credit cards to HK$2,000 per month. In May 2022, PayMe was selected to be one of the eligible electronic platforms for the consumption voucher scheme. Features PayMe was introduced as a standalone mobile app, offering P2P social payment. Users register via a Facebook account or Hong Kong mobile phone number and authorise access to a credit card or local bank account (not necessarily an HSBC account), from which the balance can be topped up, and a bank account to receive money. There are no transaction fees. When the PayMe account balance is too low to make a given transaction, the app automatically withdraws the necessary funds from the registered bank account or card. The social networking interaction component allows users to send and request money and split bills with others, similarly to Venmo in the United States. When the user makes a transaction, the details are posted on the social timeline, and available for other users to see, subject to privacy settings. The app encourages users to add friends, by searching for available contacts in the app. If a user makes a transaction to a non-PayMe user, a sharable payment link is created that can be distributed through social media such as WhatsApp. When the user opens the link, they can choose to collect the money by inputting their bank account, or receive it by creating a new PayMe account. In popular culture PayMe is referenced in the 2021 movie "All U need is love" (總是有愛在隔離), where - at around the 30 minutes mark - the character played by Julian Cheung asks another hotel guest to pay him "Lai See" (red packet money) to join the triad, only to be asked in return if he
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Inba Twinkle Lilly (also known as Itly) is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language heist comedy film written and directed by R. K. Vidhyadaran. The film stars three female characters (as grandmothers): Saranya Ponvannan, Kovai Sarala and Kalpana. Manobala, Chitra Lakshmanan, Mansoor Ali Khan, Ashmitha, Imman Annachi, and Devadarshini play supportive roles in the film. The movie was titled as Itly, which was previously titled as Inba Twinkle Lilly as its full form and is the acronym of the three main female characters: Inba (Saranya), Twinkle (Sarala), and Lilly (Kalpana). The film is produced by Babu Thooyavan under the production banner Appu Movies, and it also does not have any songs. The film was released on 29 June 2018 and received extremely negative reviews from the audience and critics upon its release. Synopsis Inba's college-going granddaughter Ashmitha is suffering from a serious health problem, and she is in need of money costing to an amount of about 6 lakhs. Inba, along with her close friends Twinkle and Lilly, cooperate together to raise money, and while depositing money in the bank, they end up losing it due to a bank robbery led by a terrorist named Kalluthu and his gang. The bank manager refuses to help the trio as the money was not deposited at the time of the robbery. Then they find themselves in under tremendous pressure to raise money to rescue Ashmitha, so they hatch a plan to rob the bank where they lost their money along with China, who is Twinkle's love interest. Then, police and media covers the bank. After a lot of struggles, they come out safely. Afterwards, they get to know that Ashmitha has no disease, but she is stuck in a big problem. The problem is a gang which takes bad videos of women and asks for money. However, the video of Ashmitha is uploaded for not giving money. How they save Ashmitha's life forms the rest of the plot. Cast Saranya Ponvannan as Inba, close friend of Twinkle and Lilly Kovai Sarala as Twinkle, close friend of Inba and Lilly Kalpana as Lilly, close friend of Inba and Twinkle Manobala as China, Twinkle's love interest Mansoor Ali Khan as Kalluthu (Terrorist) Ashmitha as Ashmitha Chitra Lakshmanan as Bank Manager Imman Annachi as Inspector Devadarshini as Sub-Inspector Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Astrologer Swaminathan as Ashmitha's father Crane Manohar as Spiritual Astrologer Pandu as a producer Delhi Ganesh as Doctor Anu Krishna Athulya Ravi as reporter (uncredited) Release The film was released on 29 June 2018, two years after the death of actress Kalpana who also starred in the film and was also her last feature film. The film was criticised for weak writing and poor joke sequences which caused negative impacts to the film at the box office. References 2010s Tamil-language films 2018 comedy-drama films 2018 films Indian comedy-drama films Indian heist films
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Sindhanai Sei () is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language heist film written and directed by R. Yuvan in his directorial debut. The film stars R. Yuvan and Madhu Sharma, with Shafi, Nitish Veera, Shashank, Bala, Tharsha, and Ajay playing supporting roles. The film, produced by Ghilli Sekhar and Amma Rajasekhar, features a musical composed by S. Thaman (in his Tamil compositional debut) and was released on 31 July 2009. The film was also dubbed into Telugu as Bheebatsam (). Plot The film starts with a flashback. The young man Aadhi (R. Yuvan) was disowned by his family and struggled to find a job in Chennai. He then fell in love with a rich girl named Gayathri (Madhu Sharma), and a month later, they got married, but later, Gayathri humiliated him and expelled him from her home because he was apathetic, poor, and could not satisfy her sexually. Aadhi then ran into his childhood friends Pazhani (Shashank) and Seenu (Bala) in a police station. Pazhani was a naïve bank employee who had an unpleasant tendency to talk for hours and drove away every person within his orbit, while the jobless Seenu stole money from bar customers to drink alcohol. They started to live together and decided to make easy money: they snatched gold chains and pickpocketed. Soon, they got fed up with small amounts and decided to rob a bank. Back to the present, Aadhi and Seenu, both masked and armed, enter the bank, whereas the panic-stricken Pazhani ditches them. The two friends seize control of the bank and take the customers and employees hostage. Two of the hostages then put on their masks and shoot at Aadhi and Seenu. Police surround the bank and decide to catch the robbers, but the hostages are released at that moment. The police detain and question everyone but are unable to distinguish the identically dressed hostages from the robbers. The police find that the robbers' weapons were plastic replicas, and 5 crores were disappeared from the bank, but no clue was left. A flashback reveals that Aadhi had roped two of his childhood friends Shankar (Shafi) and Hari (Nitish Veera), who were professional bank robbers. The five friends have successfully robbed 5 crores from the bank. Since the police are on their trail, they want to split and go to different towns by entrusting the job of carrying the entire money with a single man: Pazhani, who was not in the bank during the robbery. In the meantime, the police inspector (Ajay) is charged to arrest the culprits, and he finds that five people were involved in this robbery. The five friends do not trust each other sufficiently. Shankar hires a man to steal the money bag from Pazhani, while Aadhi decides to secretly follow Pazhani in the bus. Aadhi then steals the money bag and runs away. When Pazhani tries to catch Aadhi, a container lorry hit Pazhani, and he died on the spot. A few days later, Aadhi returns to Seenu's home, and
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Up, also known as Up Money and Up Banking, is an Australian neobank based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia with more than 700,000 mostly young Australian customers. Founded in 2018, Up was created as a collaboration between software development company Ferocia and Bendigo & Adelaide Bank. History Launch Up was founded in 2017 as a collaboration between software company Ferocia and Bendigo & Adelaide Bank. The companies were already closely tied as Ferocia was building Bendigo Bank's app at the time. On 13 May 2018, Up started its friends and family beta phase with a closed beta release on 2 August 2018. An invite system was introduced on 1 October 2018 to allow existing users to invite friends to sign-up, which allowed invitees to skip the waitlist before Up officially launched to the public on 9 October 2018. On 8 November 2018, Up was officially the first neobank in Australia to provide instant Apple Pay provisioning, allowing consumers to add their card to their Apple Wallet before receiving their physical card. Bank transfers via the Pay ID were then enabled on 21 November 2018 to a small group of users before having a full rollout on 13 December 2018. The bank then teamed up with buy now, pay later company Afterpay, allowing users to link their app with Afterpay thus providing "smarter transaction viewing" as well as reminders on when their next payments were due. Four months after their public launch, Up announced that it had 30,000 customers . On 12 June 2019, Up announced that they had reached 100,000 customers. Awards and innovation Up then won "Exceptional Everyday Account" and "Regular Savers" awards from Mozo's annual Expert Choice Deposit Awards for 2019. Gamification via the Pull to Save feature was released on 14 March 2019, allowing customers to "pull" their screen and with one touch, round-up spare change to savings. On the next day, Up announced support for WatchOS and released their first Apple Watch app. Samsung Pay support was then released on 10 April 2019. On 18 June 2019, Up announced that it had also rolled out instant Google Pay provisioning, one of the first banks in Australia to do so. Up then qualified and won "Digital Disrupter of the Year", "Best Tech Innovation" and "Best Banking Innovation" awards from the annual Finder Awards. Scheduled and repeated payments as well as a new Salary Identification feature were then released on 10 September 2019. On 15 October 2019, following digital banks such as Monzo in the UK and N26 in Europe, the bank announced a partnership with international payments service TransferWise via the "TransferWise for Banks" model with a private beta for November and an expected public release in Q4 of 2019. This makes Up Banking the first in the Asia-Pacific region to integrate TransferWise APIs. On 16 October 2019, Up held its first meetup in Fitzroy, Victoria and announced features such as salary splitting and transactional-saving covering. In 2021, Ferocia was listed as Australia's 8th Best Place to Work
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Candie Kung (; born 8 August 1981) is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. Amateur career Kung was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She was a three-time American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) All-American and was named 1999 AJGA Player of the Year. She won the 2001 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. While at USC, Kung was a two-time NCAA All-American and won the 2000 Pac-10 Championship. Professional career After turning pro in 2001, Kung initially played on the second tier Futures Tour, and she won the SBC Futures Tour Championship that year. She tied for 15th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to win a place on the main tour for 2002. She had a solid rookie season, finishing 36th on the money list. In 2003, she won her first three LPGA events, and was sixth on the money list. She finished 17th on the money list in 2004, tied for 11th in 2005, and 29th in 2006. Kung won her fourth LPGA tournament at the Hana Bank-KOLON Championship in 2008. Kung came close to winning the 2009 U.S. Women's Open. She finished the tournament at one over 285 and was tied for first till Eun-Hee Ji birdied the final hole to take home the title. Personal information Kung was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States in 1995. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in approximately 2005; She does not hold dual citizenship. She currently lives in Allen, Texas. Professional wins (5) LPGA Tour (4) LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1) Futures Tour (1) 2001 (1) SBC FUTURES Tour Championship Results in LPGA majors Results not in chronological order before 2018. ^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001 ^^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013 CUT = missed the halfway cut WD = withdrew "T" = tied Summary Most consecutive cuts made – 23 (2003 British Open – 2009 U.S. Open) Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2003 British Open – 2004 Kraft Nabisco) Team appearances Amateur Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Chinese Taipei): 2000 Professional Lexus Cup (representing Asia team): 2005, 2006 (winners), 2007 (winners), 2008 International Crown (representing Taiwan/Chinese Taipei): 2014, 2016, 2018 References External links Taiwanese female golfers American female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Olympic golfers for Taiwan Golfers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Golfers from Texas American sportspeople of Taiwanese descent American sportswomen of Chinese descent Taiwanese emigrants to the United States Sportspeople from Kaohsiung Sportspeople from Allen, Texas Sportspeople from Collin County, Texas 1981 births Living people 21st-century American women
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The Commuter is a 2018 action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle. The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Florence Pugh, and Sam Neill. It follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious woman while on his daily train commute. The film premiered in New York City on January 8, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on January 12, 2018, by Lionsgate, and on January 19, 2018, in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal. The film grossed $119 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who called it similar to Neeson and Collet-Serra's previous film, Non-Stop, but praised Neeson's performance and the genre thrills. Plot Michael MacCauley, a former NYPD officer turned insurance agent, takes the same daily train commute on the Hudson Line from Tarrytown to Grand Central Terminal. He is abruptly laid off from his job, endangering his family's financial security. Waiting to reveal his dismissal to his wife and son, he instead confides in Murphy, his ex-partner still on the police force. On the train home, Michael meets a mysterious woman, Joanna, who proposes a "hypothetical" situation: she asks him to locate "Prynne," the alias of an unknown passenger whom Joanna claims has a stolen item. Joanna tells Michael that he will find $25,000 in the bathroom and be paid a further $75,000 when his task is done. Alluding to Michael being a former cop, she departs, and he finds the $25,000. Michael attempts to leave the train with the money, but he is stopped by a young teenager with an envelope containing his wife's wedding ring, which she tells him is a warning. Unable to reach his wife by phone, he discreetly approaches fellow commuter Walt, writing a note on his newspaper to contact the police. Michael leaves Murphy a voicemail describing the situation and receives a call from Joanna threatening him and his family. She tells him the train is rigged with hidden cameras and to look outside, where he sees Walt be pushed in front of a moving bus and killed. Joanna points Michael to a GPS tracker in his jacket to plant on Prynne. Michael induces a conductor to make random security searches, saying that he has observed suspicious activity by some of the passengers. But when the conductor tries to search a woman's bag, she protests loudly. A man immediately leaves the car, and Michael follows, but the man attacks him, and Michael plants the tracker on him. Murphy calls back and explains that Prynne is a key witness in the supposed suicide of city official Enrique Mendez, leading Michael to realize that Prynne will be killed and that Michael is being set up. In a deserted carriage, Michael discovers the body of the man he planted the tracker on and a badge revealing he was an FBI agent. Joanna calls, chastising Michael for marking the wrong
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The Resistance Banker () is a 2018 Dutch World War II period drama film directed by Joram Lürsen. It is based on the life of banker Walraven van Hall who financed the Dutch resistance during the war. It became the most-watched Dutch film of 2018 and was nominated for eleven Golden Calves, the first time that a film received so many nominations for the award. It won four Golden Calves, among them the prizes for Best Film and Best Actor. It was also selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot 1941 Shortly after the German occupation of the Netherlands, Nazi collaborator Rost von Tonningen is installed as head of the Dutch State Bank. Walraven "Wally" van Hall, an Amsterdam financier, discovers that a Jewish colleague and his family have committed suicide after being ordered to surrender their home to the Germans. As Wally departs their house, a man approaches him and asks whether Wally thinks it's time to "fight back". The man is a member of the resistance, going by the alias 'van den Berg', who runs an illegal fund that pays escaped sailors to work for the Dutch government-in-exile. Van den Berg convinces Wally to organize a similar fund for members of the resistance in Amsterdam. Von Tonningen informs Wally's brother, Gijsbrecht "Gijs" van Hall, about his suspicions of illegal activity and notifies him that large-denomination bills will be removed from circulation. Wally recruits Gijs to help run the resistance fund and the two brothers plug their networks to rapidly disperse the large-denomination cash they've already collected. They are so successful that they decide to widen their web and collect more money, now in small denominations. Wally, going by the name "van Tuyl", calls a meeting with resistance leaders and convinces them to systematize their finances using him as their banker. The government-in-exile guarantees reimbursement of thirty million guilder. Von Tonningen recruits SS intelligence to hunt down the shadow bank financing the resistance. They eventually capture a resistance member who, under duress, discloses Wally's alias. 1944 Resistance courier Jeanette Veentra loses her nerve in front of a German patrol and is exposed carrying pro-Dutch newspapers. Her boyfriend, Jonas van Berkel, pleads for her release but the Germans are aware of his resistance ties and offer an ultimatum, aid in the capture of fellow members or face imprisonment. Van Berkel counters and strikes a deal, he will help track down van Tuyl if Veentra is released. The exiled government in London orders a national railroad strike. Running low on funds to pay the striking workers, Wally initiates a scheme. He plans to steal treasury bonds from the State Bank and replace them with forged copies. On his way to arrange for purchase of the ink needed for the forgery, a local barber narrowly saves him from German capture. The ink vendor tries to escape and is killed in the street by the Germans. Wally
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Con Man is a 2018 American crime drama film directed by Bruce Caulk and starring James Caan, Ving Rhames, Justin Baldoni, Elisabeth Röhm, Mark Hamill, Talia Shire and Armand Assante. It is based on the real-life story of Barry Minkow, who also appears in the film. Plot In 1982, 16-year-old Barry Minkow is an ambitious high school student in Reseda, working at a gym and a carpet-cleaning business. He obtains steroids from a gym member named Victor, who gives him a loan to open his own carpet-cleaning business, “ZZZZ Best”. As a teenage entrepreneur, Barry revels in the attention from his classmates and the local news, until his bank realizes he is a minor and cancels his accounts. Desperate to stay in business, he steals money orders to pay his debt to Victor, and convinces another bank to give him an account. After expenses like a new sports car and expanding the still-struggling company, Barry resorts to check kiting, forging credit card statements, and stages an office break-in, paying a crooked insurance adjuster to ensure a fraudulent claims payout. His overinflated success goes to his head, alienating him from his friend and employee Mike. In 1984, Barry turns 18 and graduates high school, and his uncle introduces him to lucrative insurance contracts for restoring water damage. He puts Barry in touch with Jack Saxon, an organized crime-connected businessman who offers to finance ZZZZ Best in exchange for splitting the profits. Confronted by his bank over the credit card fraud, Barry and his adjuster form a fake appraisal company to verify ZZZZ Best’s fraudulent restoration contracts; combined with Saxon’s money, this allows Barry to settle with the bank, and his company continues to grow. Approached by FBI Agent Gamble, Barry declines to testify against Saxon. Barry and his adjuster falsify tens of thousands of documents to inflate the company’s value, misrepresenting that they handle millions of dollars in non-existent restorations; in Sacramento, Barry stages a walkthrough for investors of a restoration site where ZZZZ Best never worked. In 1986, Barry and Saxon take the company public, having illegally pumped and dumped the stock. Celebrating his 20th birthday and his net worth of $100 million, Barry is rebuked by his mother for valuing money over morality. A newspaper exposé reveals Barry’s previous credit card fraud, leading the company’s stock to plummet and banks to call in their loans. Learning Saxon has sold all his shares, Barry holds a press conference to refute the accusations against him, but the phony Sacramento project is made public and his investment banking firm resigns. After a confrontation with Mike, Barry is forced to face the consequences: convicted of 57 counts of fraud, he is sentenced to 25 years in prison, and ordered to pay $26 million in restitution. By 1994, Barry (now played by Minkow himself) has been incarcerated at Englewood Federal Prison for years. Supposedly counseled by fellow inmate James “Peanut” Long, Barry becomes a born-again Christian. He is interviewed by Agent Gamble about his
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The Money in the Bank ladder match is a multi-person ladder match held by the professional wrestling promotion WWE. First performed at WWE's annual WrestleMania event beginning in 2005, a separate Money in the Bank pay-per-view was established in 2010. In wrestling's fictional premise, the prize is a briefcase containing a contract for a championship match of the winner's choice, which can be "cashed in" by the holder of the briefcase at any point in the year following their victory. If the contract is not used within a year of winning it, it will be invalid, but this has yet to happen in any WWE storyline. From its inception until 2017, ladder match performances only involved male wrestlers, with the contract being for a world championship match. Beginning with the 2017 Money in the Bank event, women also have the opportunity to compete in such a match, with their prize being a contract for a women's championship match. The first match was contested in 2005 at WrestleMania 21, after Chris Jericho invented the concept. At the time, it was exclusive to wrestlers of the Raw brand, and Edge won the inaugural match. From then until WrestleMania XXVI, the Money in the Bank ladder match, now open to all WWE brands, became a WrestleMania mainstay. The 2010 Money in the Bank event saw a second and third Money in the Bank ladder match when the eponymous WWE pay-per-view debuted in July, with WrestleMania no longer featuring the match. Unlike the matches at WrestleMania, this new event included two such ladder matches: one each for a contract for a WWE Championship match and a World Heavyweight Championship match, respectively. Before the establishment of the annual Money in the Bank pay-per-view, wrestlers were allowed to use the contract to claim a match for any world championship in WWE. After the establishment of the pay-per-view, the Money in the Bank contracts were specifically aimed at one or the other championship. With the championship unification of the WWE and World Heavyweight titles into the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at the 2013 TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event, there was only a single contract in play. This went into effect beginning with the 2014 Money in the Bank event. The brand split returned shortly after the 2016 Money in the Bank event along with a new world title. The 2017 event was SmackDown-exclusive and the contract was a match for its world championship, the WWE Championship (formerly WWE World Heavyweight Championship). It also included the first-ever women's Money in the Bank ladder match, with the winner receiving a contract for a SmackDown Women's Championship match. Due to the controversy surrounding the ending of that match, the first non-pay-per-view Money in the Bank ladder match occurred on the June 27 episode of SmackDown Live. It became dual-branded beginning with the 2018 Money in the Bank event, involving both the Raw and SmackDown brands with one men's match and one women's match with participants evenly divided between the
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CurrencyFair is an online currency exchange platform that until 2023 offered a peer-to-peer currency exchange service. CurrencyFair is headquartered in Ireland and also has employees in the UK, Australia, Greece, Hong Kong, Poland and Singapore. The company has established working sectors in Newcastle (UK), New South Wales (Australia), Singapore and Hong Kong. CurrencyFair provides international money transfers in 20 global currencies. With CurrencyFair, customers could match with someone straightaway using an Auto-Transaction or set a desired rate in a currency and wait to partially or fully match with someone in the Exchange Queue who is going in the opposite currency direction. In a 2016 interview with Irish Tech News, co-founder Brett Meyers said "CurrencyFair is a peer to peer currency transfer service that empowers people to send money from their domestic bank account to their own, or a third party’s, foreign bank account up to 90% cheaper than they can using a bank or broker”. , CurrencyFair was rated 1.7 out of 5 stars in the category of travel money cards and currency exchanges on the Australian Product Review website. Many people have voiced complaints about payments being held and not returned unless thorough justification is given. History CurrencyFair was established in April 2009 by co-founders Brett Meyers, Jonathan Potter, Sean Barrett and David Christian. It was described by The Guardian as a marketplace where money is never exchanged across borders, rather staying in the country of origin, thereby avoiding bank conversion fees. Customers would have one currency but need funds in another. They would be "matched" with someone with a corresponding need – someone who has that currency but needs the other. The company was officially "launched" in December 2013 by then Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny. At the time, 30 new jobs were announced. In early 2014 CurrencyFair became the first platform in the world to break the $1 billion (€916 million) barrier in money-matching transfers and in April 2017 CurrencyFair revamped their platform to enable SMEs to use the service. CurrencyFair announced at the Web Summit in Lisbon in 2016 that it had raised €8 million in funding. A mobile app was launched in September 2015. As of August 2017, the company announced it had traded over €5 billion. By July 2018, this had reputedly increased to over €7 billion. In August 2018, the company announced a €20 million investment plan into the Asian market and the acquisition of Hong Kong-based Convoy Payments. Also in August 2018, CEO Paul Byrne spoke on the Newstalk Business Breakfast show about their recent €20m funding and acquisition. In an August 2018 interview with the Independent.ie, Byrne said "Asia is where we think most growth will come from over time and we want to be part of that story". In October 2019, CurrencyFair announced its sponsorship of the 2019 Asian Gaelic Games, with a launch event in Croke Park. In December 2019, the company completed a partnership agreement with Chinese online trade network Buy-World to launch its marketplace payment product. Recognition In
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Thendral () is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on Sun TV. It was broadcast from 7 December 2009 to 17 January 2015 for 1,340 episodes. The show stars Shruthi Raj and Deepak Dinkar and revolves around a girl's struggle in a middle-class family, focusing on the importance of women's education. It was produced by Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd and directed by S. Kumaran. The show replaced Kolangal which was also produced by Vikatan Televistas. Thendral was amongst the first Tamil serials to go viral on the internet. The Indian newspaper Business Standard described it as the "first youthful prime time daily soap in Tamil". Thendral has been highly acclaimed and has won many awards. After a nine-year hiatus, the show returned from 10 December 2018 on Vikatan Prime Time YouTube channel every day. It was re-telecasting on Colors Tamil from 16 May 2022. Now it is currently re-telecasting in Kalaignar TV from 4 September 2023. Plot This serial revolves around the main character Thulasi (Shruthi Raj). Thulasi's mother left her when she was a child for the sake of money and, ever since, her family has shunned her, especially her father and stepmother. The only family member that genuinely cares for her is her grandmother (S. N. Lakshmi). Thulasi's only dream is to continue her studies to become an engineer and help her family, and she gets the highest marks in her 12th board exams. Thulasi's father Muthumanikam a.k.a. Manikam (Subhalekha Sudhakar) dreams about seeing his son, Mohan (Ayyappan) becoming an engineer, yet his dreams are put on hold due to the lack of money. Knowing this, a break-inspector and a thug in his 40s, Velayudham (Nizhalgal Ravi) approaches them to help Manikam's dream come true, on one condition: that is if he agrees to get Thulasi married to him. A greedy Manickam coaxes Thulasi that the only way she can wipe away the sin committed by her mother, who had fled away with another man, is by marrying Velayudham. Stung by guilt, Thulasi agrees to marry Velayudham despite their age difference. Velayudham, in return, offers Manickam a massive amount of cash. But fate has other plans, and so by mistake, the photos of Thulasi and that of another girl Lavanya (Neelima Rani) mix up in a photo studio and ends up in the hands of the hero – Tamizharasu (Deepak Dinkar). Lavanya happens to be the sister of Tamizharasu. On seeing Thulasi's photo, she conveys that she would like to have a sister-in-law as beautiful as Thulasi. Attracted by Thulasi's beauty and the frequent taunts by Lavanya, Tamizharasu falls in love with Thulasi. Thulasi refuses to accept Tamizharasu's love and publicly insults him at his bank. Meanwhile, Tamizharasu's mother wants him to marry a rich girl of her choice so that she can be the controller of her second daughter-in-law. Her relationship with the eldest-daughter-in-law Sudha is not in good terms, and so she wants Tamizharasu to marry a rich girl who is
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The 2013 Money in the Bank was the fourth annual Money in the Bank professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. The event took place on July 14, 2013, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was final Money in the Bank event to be held in July until the 2021 event. The event featured eight matches, with one on the Kickoff pre-show, including two Money in the Bank ladder matches. In the main event, Randy Orton won the titular match for a WWE Championship match contract, while in the opening bout, Damien Sandow won the other ladder match for a World Heavyweight Championship match contract. Other prominent matches included John Cena defeating Mark Henry by submission to retain the WWE Championship, Curtis Axel defeating The Miz to retain the Intercontinental Championship, and AJ Lee defeating Kaitlyn to retain the WWE Divas Championship. The event also featured the return of Rob Van Dam, who competed in his first WWE match since the 2009 Royal Rumble and his first full-time match since 2007. The event received 199,000 buys, which was up from the previous year's event of 188,000. Production Background Money in the Bank is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) produced by WWE since 2010, held in July. The concept of the show comes from WWE's established Money in the Bank ladder match, in which multiple wrestlers use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring. The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the winner a match for a world championship at any time within the next year. For 2013, two Money in the Bank ladder matches occurred; one granted a contract for a WWE Championship match while the other contained a World Heavyweight Championship match contract—2013 was the final Money in the Bank event to feature the World Heavyweight Championship as it was unified with the WWE Championship at December's TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event to become the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The 2013 event was the fourth event in the Money in the Bank chronology and it took place on July 14, 2013, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Storylines The professional wrestling matches at Money in the Bank featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, WWE. Storylines between the characters played out on WWE's primary television programs, Raw and SmackDown. At Payback in June, a promo announced the return of Rob Van Dam, who last competed for WWE in the 2009 Royal Rumble match, for Money in the Bank. On the June 17 episode of Raw, WWE Champion John Cena recalled his many woes and failures in 2012, and his eventual return to the main event of WrestleMania 29, where he finally defeated The Rock and won the WWE Championship, ultimately thanking the fans for their support to him. As he finished, Mark Henry then came out to the ring to seemingly retire. After an emotional promo, which prompted Cena to come to the
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The Vault is a 2017 American horror film directed by Dan Bush, written by Dan Bush and Conal Byrne, and starring Francesca Eastwood, Taryn Manning, Scott Haze, Q'orianka Kilcher, Clifton Collins Jr., and James Franco. It was released on September 1, 2017, by FilmRise. Plot After starting a fire in a nearby warehouse as a diversion, the five robbers—Leah Dillon; her sister, Vee; their brother, Michael; Kramer, the safecracker; and Cyrus, the muscle—initiate a bank robbery. An officer inside the bank tries to call for help on his police radio. Detective Tom Iger, who had just been in the bank, hears the call and decides to check it out. While walking back to check on the bank, he hears another anonymous call on his radio about the robbery. The robbers find only $70,000 in the vault. Leah wants to leave, but Vee and Cyrus demand more money. The assistant manager Ed Maas says he will tell them where $6 million is stored as long as they do not hurt anyone. He tells them the money is in the basement vault which is a part of the old bank and hands them the key to the access door. By now, police are stationed outside the bank and Leah is confused as to how they knew about the heist. The head teller, Susan, tries to connect with Michael, telling him he is a decent man. He tells her that he owes people a lot of money and his sisters are helping him rob the bank. When Kramer successfully breaks open the vault, the lights flicker. A man in a white mask and what appears to be a group of the hostages attack him. He is pulled inside the old vault. Leah and Vee watch from the security monitors upstairs, but only Kramer appears on the screen. Thinking there are more people in the bank, Leah asks Cyrus to count the hostages that are gathered inside the safety deposit vault. The lights start to flicker again and the vault door closes with Cyrus and the hostages inside. As Kramer is repeatedly stabbed in the basement vault, Cyrus is overcome by the same group of hostages that attacked Kramer. The man in the white mask appears and grabs his gun, forcing it into Cyrus's mouth. When the vault door opens again, Leah goes in but Cyrus is nowhere in sight. Michael sees Kramer commit suicide. Suspecting that Susan called the police, Leah interrogates her. Susan tells Leah about the robbery in 1982 where a robber in a white mask apparently "snapped" under the pressure and killed some hostages, forced some to kill each other and burned the rest alive in the old vault. The masked man was never caught or found. Vee turns up with a bag of money—but the bills are all from 1982. After the police attempt to take Leah and Vee out with sniper fire, an outgoing call indicator on an office telephone catches Leah's attention. She picks it up and
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Yucatán is a 2018 Spanish comedy film directed by Daniel Monzón from a screenplay by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Monzón which stars Luis Tosar, Rodrigo de la Serna, Joan Pera, and Stephanie Cayo. The plot follows a group of scammers who embark on a cruise ship to defraud and steal the money of an old baker who recently won millions of euros in the lottery. It was filmed mostly onboard Pullmantur Cruises's MS Sovereign and on location in the ports where the ship docked on its route. Plot Clayderman (Rodrigo de la Serna) is a con man who, together with his wife Verónica (Stephanie Cayo), works on board the MS Sovereign as a pianist. He uses his position as a crew member to commit petty crimes against the passengers. In Barcelona, Lucas (another scammer) discreetly enters the ship disguised as a crew member. Almost at the same time, Antonio and his family come on board as regular passengers. Clayderman, Lucas, and Verónica have a past together when they used to "work" as a group, but they split up when both Clayderman and Lucas fell in love with Verónica. As soon as Clayderman finds out that Lucas is on board, he is sure that his old friend is planning a new scam. He starts to investigate and finds that Antonio, an old baker who recently won 161 million euros in the lottery, is on board with his family. From this moment on, Clayderman, Lucas, and Verónica (assisted by their allies) start a competition to see who can defraud and steal the old man's money first. Cast Luis Tosar as Lucas Rodrigo de la Serna as Clayderman Joan Pera as Antonio Stephanie Cayo as Verónica Gloria Muñoz as Carmen Alicia Fernández as Leticia Adrián Núñez as Brendon Txell Aixendri as Alicia Production Most of Yucatán scenes were filmed onboard Pullmantur Cruises's MS Sovereign cruiseship during a transatlantic crossing from Brazil to Spain. The actors and crew embarked on April 10, 2016 in Recife and spent 22 days shooting the film, disembarking in Barcelona. The film team of about 100 lived aboard the ship during this time. The ship carried out its regular activities; the crew and passengers became part of the film, and even appeared as extras in some scenes. Release Box office Distributed by Hispano FoxFilm, Yucatán was released in Spain on August 31, 2018. In its opening weekend, it grossed $1,240,253, finishing at #1 at the Spanish box office. In its second weekend, it grossed $1,071,148, a dropping to #2. After seven weeks, it had grossed more than €5.1 million in Spain alone, becoming 2018's seventh-highest-grossing Spanish film. Reception of El País wrote: "I think I understand what Daniel Monzón has proposed, but the result seems devastating. Nothing works in this weary plot, null of grace, with interpretations that move between the inane and the grotesque". Xavi Sánchez Pons from the website "Sensacine" did not like the film either, giving it two out of five stars with the explanation: "In Yucatan,
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This is a list of career achievements by Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki. To date, she has won 30 singles titles including a Grand Slam title, a WTA Finals title, three WTA Premier Mandatory titles and three WTA Premier 5 titles. She was the winner of the 2018 Australian Open and the 2017 WTA Finals, and the runner-up at the 2009 US Open, the 2010 WTA Tour Championships, and the 2014 US Open. Wozniacki was first ranked world No. 1 by the WTA on October 11, 2010. Records Grand Slam By winning the 2018 Australian Open, she became the first Danish player, man or woman, to win a Grand Slam singles title. At the 2018 Australian Open, she saved two match points against Jana Fett in the second round before she snatched the title, making her the ninth woman to win the title after being match point down. Ranking By winning the 2010 China Open, she became the fifth player to reach the No. 1 position without having won a Grand Slam tournament. She also became the first Danish player, man or woman, to reach the top ranking. By winning the 2018 Australian Open, she regained the world No. 1 ranking on 29 January 2018. Wozniacki was last ranked No. 1 on 29 January 2012, exactly 6 years ago, and her new ascension beat Serena Williams' previous record of 5 years 29 days. Prize money and earnings Wozniacki is the fourth highest female player in prize money of all time. Wozniacki was the fourth female player to win US$30,000,000 in career prize money on 19 February 2018. Other Wozniacki won at least one title in 11 consecutive years from 2008 to 2018. this is the fifth highest overall in the Open Era, shared with Virginia Wade, Evonne Goolagong and Serena Williams. Recognition In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Open Era in tennis (1968–2018), Tennis Magazine published a series "The 50 Greatest Players of the Open Era", rating the best 25 men and 25 women. They ranked Wozniacki as the 24th-best female player two days after she won the 2018 Australian Open. Awards {|class=wikitable !Year !Awards ! |- |align=center|2008 |WTA Tour Most Impressive Newcomer of the Year | |- |rowspan=2 align=center|2010 |ITF Player of the Year |align=center| |- |Danish Sports Name of the Year |align=center| |- |align=center|2011 |Diamond Aces | |- |align=center|2014 |US Open Sportsmanship Award | |- |align=center|2015 |Diamond Aces | |- |align=center|2018 |Danish Sports Name of the Year | |} Outside tennis Marathon On 2 November 2014, Wozniacki made her marathon debut, completing the New York City Marathon in a time of 3:26:33. This time was good enough to qualify for the 2016 Boston Marathon but Wozniacki said she will not run another marathon for a few years. Modeling Wozniacki appeared in the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, following other number one-ranked singles tennis stars: Steffi Graf (1997), Serena Williams (2004), Venus Williams (2005), Maria Sharapova (2006), Ana Ivanovic (2010) and Rafael Nadal (2012) who have appeared
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The 2014 Money in the Bank was the fifth annual Money in the Bank professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It took place on June 29, 2014, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the first Money in the Bank event to livestream on the WWE Network, which launched in February. Eight matches took place at the event, with no match aired on the Kickoff pre-show. The titular ladder match for the Money in the Bank contract was won by Seth Rollins. The main event was a ladder match for the vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship, which was won by John Cena. The event is notable for the first WWE appearance of independent wrestler and future Money in the Bank winner Luis Martinez who would later sign with the company in 2018 as Damian Priest. The event received 122,000 buys (excluding WWE Network views), down from the previous year's 199,000 buys. Production Background Money in the Bank is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE since 2010. The concept of the show comes from WWE's established Money in the Bank ladder match, in which multiple wrestlers use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring. The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the winner a match for a world championship at any time within the next year. For 2014, only one Money in the Bank ladder match occurred and the winner received a contract for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match, following the unification of the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in December 2013. The 2014 event was the fifth Money in the Bank. The event was previously held in July, but for 2014, the event was moved to June and was held on June 29, 2014, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to traditional pay-per-view outlets, the 2014 event was the first Money in the Bank to livestream on the WWE Network, which launched in February. Storylines The card consisted of eight matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Raw and SmackDown. On the June 2 episode of Raw, Alberto Del Rio qualified for the Money in the Bank ladder match by defeating Dolph Ziggler. The following week, following Daniel Bryan being stripped of his WWE World Heavyweight Championship due to injury, Stephanie McMahon changed the match into a ladder match for the vacant title. The same night, Triple H placed Randy Orton into the match, while United States Champion Sheamus and Cesaro defeated Intercontinental Champion Bad News Barrett and Rob Van Dam, respectively, to qualify. On the June 13 episode of SmackDown, Bray Wyatt qualified for the match after defeating Dean Ambrose (with interference from Seth Rollins). On the June
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Money Heist (, , ) is a Spanish heist crime drama television series created by Álex Pina. The series traces two long-prepared heists led by the Professor (Álvaro Morte), one on the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain, told from the perspective of one of the robbers, Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó). The story is told in a real-time-like fashion and relies on an unreliable narrator, flashbacks, time-jumps, and hidden character motivations for complexity. The series was initially intended as a limited series to be told in two parts. It had its original run of 15 episodes on Spanish network Antena 3 from 2 May 2017 through 23 November 2017. Netflix acquired global streaming rights in late 2017. It re-cut the series into 22 shorter episodes and released them worldwide, beginning with the first part on 20 December 2017, followed by the second part on 6 April 2018. In April 2018, Netflix renewed the series with a significantly increased budget for 16 new episodes total. Part 3, with eight episodes, was released on 19 July 2019. Part 4, also with eight episodes, was released on 3 April 2020. A documentary involving the producers and the cast premiered on Netflix the same day, titled Money Heist: The Phenomenon (). In July 2020, Netflix renewed the show for a fifth and final part, which was released in two five-episode volumes on 3 September and 3 December 2021, respectively. Similar to Money Heist: The Phenomenon, a two-part documentary involving the producers and cast premiered on Netflix the same day, titled Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin. The series was filmed in Madrid, Spain. Significant portions were also filmed in Panama, Thailand, Italy (Florence), Denmark and in Portugal (Lisbon). A South Korean remake set in an alternate universe, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area, was released on 24 June 2022, while a direct spin-off, Berlin, with Pedro Alonso, Itziar Ituño, and Najwa Nimri reprising their roles, was released on 29 December 2023, forming a shared universe. The series received several awards including the International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series at the 46th International Emmy Awards, as well as critical acclaim for its sophisticated plot, interpersonal dramas, direction, and for trying to innovate Spanish television. The Italian anti-fascist song "Bella ciao", which plays multiple times throughout the series, became a summer hit across Europe in 2018. By 2018, the series was the most-watched non-English-language series and one of the most-watched series overall on Netflix,<ref name=newstatesman_180824/> having particular resonance with viewers from Mediterranean Europe and the Latin American regions. Premise Set in Madrid, a mysterious man known as the "Professor" recruits a group of eight people, who choose city names as their aliases, to carry out an ambitious plan that involves entering the Royal Mint of Spain, and escaping with €984 million. After taking 67 people hostage inside the Mint, the team plans to remain inside for 11 days to print the money as they deal with elite police forces. In
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