Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Cartel’ Behavior

Re:Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Car... by bobcostas55 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @10:20AM (#8521043)

I think there's a very simple and elegant solution for this: fines have to be paid in the form of equity. The government can sell its share on the open market to convert equity to cash, and it's impossible for the shareholders to pass on the cost to anyone else.

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Re:Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Car... by nsajko on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:18PM (#8521750)

That sounds quite interesting. Searching for it I only found some Scots parliamentary proposals. Is this a new idea?

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Re:Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Car... by bnegreve on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:47PM (#8522304)

Nationalization is the extreme example. It happened a couple of times [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization

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Re:Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Car... by bobcostas55 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:18PM (#8522095)

I just came up with it, but it's pretty obvious so I'm sure it's highly unoriginal.

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