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  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
    QS100609Shanghai25.jpg
  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
    QS100609Shanghai30.jpg
  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
    QS100609Shanghai24.jpg
  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
    QS100609Shanghai31.jpg
  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
    QS100609Shanghai29.jpg
  • A foreign currency conversion sign in the capitals tourist area of Covent Garden, on 1st September 2017, in London, England.
    currency_rates-01-01-09-2017.jpg
  • Scene of a currency exchange shop sign along the Strand as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. These shoppers, mostly wearing face masks were unaware, as were shop owners that the new rules were about to be announced, and this would mean that all non-essential shops will have to close from midnight.
    20201219_currency shop_001.jpg
  • Scene of a currency exchange shop sign along the Strand as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. These shoppers, mostly wearing face masks were unaware, as were shop owners that the new rules were about to be announced, and this would mean that all non-essential shops will have to close from midnight.
    20201219_currency shop_003.jpg
  • Scene of a currency exchange shop sign along the Strand as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. These shoppers, mostly wearing face masks were unaware, as were shop owners that the new rules were about to be announced, and this would mean that all non-essential shops will have to close from midnight.
    20201219_currency shop_002.jpg
  • Exchange rate board outside a currency conversion shop showing the prices of Euros and US Dollars to the British Pound on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another. It is also regarded as the value of one countrys currency in relation to another currency.
    20200218_exchange rates_001.jpg
  • A currency banker with the British Union Jack above his desk, rubs tired eyes while working in front of 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capitals financial centre, on 20th May 1992, in London, England. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.
    city04-22-06-1993.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998_1.jpg
  • An elderly Hungarian woman pauses to count her Forints and Fillér change, the national currency. She stands at the top of stairs near a well-lit window in the market which the largest indoor market in the Hungarian capital and is where this lady and many other market traders converge on every weekday morning to sell their own produce. The flower and herb woman has a lined face suggesting she has had a hard life under a Communist regime. She still wears a traditional Hungarian covered head favoured by older people in rural communities but is now dying out as headwear for a younger generation. The forint is the only currency once used by a socialist European state that is still in circulation. As a member of the European Union, the long term aim of the Hungarian government is to replace the forint with the euro.
    hungarian_woman01-13-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Exchange rate board outside a currency conversion shop in central London, England, United Kingdom.
    20180905_exchange rate_002_1.jpg
  • A female member of the Thomas Cook staff issues foreign currency to an unseen airline passenger in the departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. This Bureau de Change is one of two companies trading in foreign exchange, travel insurance and travellers cheques for passengers passing through this aviation hub is west London. We see on the wall behind the assistant, a beach paradise scene of palm trees, calm seas and beach chalets, the idea of tranquillity and prosperity. On the left are the exchange rates for the world's currencies for purchase at this kiosk. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1135-12-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Electronic board in currency exchange shop, Florence, Italy
    _MG_9600_1_1_1.jpg
  • Exchange rate board outside a currency conversion shop in central London, England, United Kingdom.
    20180905_exchange rate_001_1.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. A lady employee stares at her data near a large keyboard and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor01-20-05-1992_1_1.jpg
  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010.
    QS100609Shanghai32.jpg
  • An arabic currency exchange poster in English and Arabic, in the city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The detail of the banner shows currencies of many countries including the British Pound showing the queen's head - alongside those of the Egyptian Pound, far right.
    egypt86-02-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A poster in a shop window saying “Wrens Accepted Here. Money that stays in Wadebridge”.  Wrens are a local currency developed by Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) to support local businesses.
    UK-Community-Group-WREN-0392.jpg
  • Bitcoin sold here sign in a small shop window in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
    20200520_bitcoin sign_001.jpg
  • A collection of Wren currency which the Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) has launched for local businesses in North Cornwall, United Kingdom. For every Wren (Wr) redeemed, a percentage is put back into the Community Fund.
    UK-Community-Group-WREN-0016.jpg
  • A child shows off a 5 Zim dollar coin that he has found on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe. The money is now worthless since the devaluation of the currency.
    07-zim_8365.jpg
  • Bitcoin sold here sign in a small shop window in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
    20200520_bitcoin sign_002.jpg
  • A spread of old Polish Zloty bank notes are spread out in the hands of a private market trader in Central Warsaw. His arms appear from the bottom left of frame and we can see a dozen or so notes of 2000 and 5000 and other denominations in an arc, held together with both thumbs. In the back ground and out of focus is the hustle and bustle of a summer's day at this market at a football stadium where Polish citizens come to sell and buy their possessions in the hope of making a little money to support meagre incomes. Women are inspecting clothing and materials on a stall in the open-air, under a bright sun. On the front-facing note is the medieval ruler Mieszko I though these notes were phased out in 1995 when hyperinflation forced, the currency to undergo redenomination.
    misc_poland05-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Bitcoin sold here sign in a small shop window in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
    20200520_bitcoin sign_003.jpg
  • Dollar, Euro and Pound signs in a former Bureau de Change's window, central London. As if a ghostly shadow of their former values, the logos of American, European and British currencies are seen through the glass of the former exchange shop on Piccadilly in the West End. The detail view is symbolic of the UK recession and the falling prices of world money markets. These three western curencies are seen as fading entities compared to the Asian currencies.
    currency_window01-10-12-2014_1.jpg
  • A detail of three screens showing the current rates for foreign currencies on the Strand, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    currency_rates-01-12-12-2017.jpg
  • An image of a guardsman and a money exchange list that once displayed foreign currencies and their values, on 3rd February 2017, in London, England.
    exchange_rates-01-03-02-2017.jpg
  • Foreign currencies such as Yen, Euros and Dollars outside a Money Exchange Bureau de Change in central London, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    money_change-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • A detail of foreign exchanges showing current prices for US Dollars, British Pounds, Euros and Swiss Francs in a kantor window box, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-324-22-09-2019.jpg
  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking people walk past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
    florence_italy25-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. The female member of staff sits behind a glass window because she handles foreign cash from behind the security screen. Gazing into her computer screen and supporting her chin in her hand, the woman is in her own world, unaware of the busy street outside.
    florence_italy23-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking lady walks past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
    florence_italy14-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • Bobby Lee of BTC China photographed at his office in Shanghai, China on 16 December 2013. BTC China is quickly becoming the world's largest Bitcoin exchange in the world.
    QS131216Shanghai014_1_1.jpg
  • A detailed close-up of a trader in the central fish market of Malé, Republic of the Maldives. It is located to the west of Republic Square. This area is the main hub of trade and is a hive of activity through out the day. The waterfront and the by-lanes in the area are crowded with shops stocked with a variety of good. Grasping tight a handful of slippery skipjack tuna tails, the unseen man is carrying the fishes over to a stall table for a customer who wants them gutted and filleted, a scene that is familiar in similar markets across the world. The skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis), represents 50-75% of all fish caught. The main method is pole and line in the Indian Ocean and fishery is the main occupation and major livelihood of the Maldivian people.
    maldives385-15-11-2007.jpg
  • Men in old trainers and bare feet stand over Worthless Zimbabwean money on the dusty street floor in Harare, Zimbabwe.
    07-zim_8317.jpg
  • Pedestrians walks by the Peoples Bank of China PBOC in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Dec. 01, 2015.
    QilaiShen_00206.jpg
  • A man with dirty hands counts his money at Take A Break burger van on the 24th February 2010 in Dicklebough in the United Kingdom.
    SM_RoadsideBritain_148.jpg
  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909. In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths01-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • A medicine seller counts his money at a traditional Chinese medicine market in Bozhou, Anhui Province, China on 02 August, 2011. The birth place of legendary doctor Hua Tuo, Bozhou is now one of the four major trading centers in China for traditional Chinese medicine.
    QS110802Bozhou024.jpg
  • Thomas Cook shop front in Middlesborough town centre, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
    UK-HigSt-Thomas-Cook-1153_1.jpg
  • Passers-by wearing face coverings walk past signs for Commission Free money exchange and mobile phone repairs on Charing Cross Road, on 30th October 2020, in London, England.
    money_exchange01-30-10-2020.jpg
  • As Londoners await the imminent second coronavirus lockdown it's business as usual in the West End with large numbers of people, some wearing face masks and some not, brave the rain passing a money exchange on Oxford Street to go shopping on what will be the last weekend before a month-long total lockdown in the UK on 1st November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The three tier system in the UK has not worked sufficiently, to suppress the virus, and there have have been calls by politicians for a 'circuit breaker' complete lockdown to be announced to help the growing spread of the Covid-19.
    20201101_oxford st before lockdown_0...jpg
  • A man walks past a closed exit to Oxford Circus Underground station on Oxford Street in London on March 27th, 2020. The centre of London is extremely quiet with almost every business closed and very few people about because of the Governments lockdown measures due to the Coronavirus crisis.
    WestEnd_Night-5466.jpg
  • Screen showing the various monetary exchange rates for the countries of the World and their flags in the City of London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190821_exchange rates_002.jpg
  • Screen showing the various monetary exchange rates for the countries of the World and their flags in the City of London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190821_exchange rates_003.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany.
    deutschmarks_tin02-15-06-1990.jpg
  • The flag of the Russian Federation, a metaphor for Russian money and investment in the UK capital, hangs above Cornhill in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 14th March 2018, in London England.
    russians_city-01-14-03-2018.jpg
  • A mother and child walk past a giant Euro coin, an artwork by Danish artists Superflex, hanging from the hayward Gallery on Waterloo Bridge, on 3rd February 2017, London, England. For the third Waterloo Billboard Commission, the work is a euro coin with its value conspicuously absent – made by the group in 2012, in response to the Greek financial crisis – has gained new resonance since the UKs decision to leave the EU. The billboard is the third in a series of large-scale commissions by international artists, occupying the prominent billboard site next to Hayward Gallery.
    euro_art-03-03-02-2017.jpg
  • Cyclists pedal past a giant Euro coin, an artwork by Danish artists Superflex, hanging from the hayward Gallery on Waterloo Bridge, on 3rd February 2017, London, England. For the third Waterloo Billboard Commission, the work is a euro coin with its value conspicuously absent – made by the group in 2012, in response to the Greek financial crisis – has gained new resonance since the UKs decision to leave the EU. The billboard is the third in a series of large-scale commissions by international artists, occupying the prominent billboard site next to Hayward Gallery.
    euro_art-01-03-02-2017.jpg
  • Bobby Lee of BTC China photographed at his office in Shanghai, China on 16 December 2013. BTC China is quickly becoming the world's largest Bitcoin exchange in the world.
    QS131216Shanghai011_1_1.jpg
  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909. In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths02-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • A young boy watches the sweeping arms of a Penny push/fall game in the amusement arcade at Weston-super-Mare's grand pier. Waiting for some coins to be caught in the log-jam and to fall into the prize tray below, the lad seems spellbound by the potential luck and possibilities although the odds are against him. Images of 1970s dancers, including John Travolta, strut their stuff at the disco. 2p pennies stack up until the moment when they topple over and spill out.
    slot_machines5-06-August-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Looking upwards towards the back of a number 8 red London bus which passes the pillars of the famous Bank of England building at Cornhill in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. We see the Bank rising as an imposing classical structure. Its columns are converging because of wide-angle lens-distortion, giving us the image of strength, stability and influence in UK economics. The bus is a traditional design called a Routemaster which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes. Its distinctive rounded rear bodywork is easily recognisable as that classic British icon.
    RB-0037.jpg
  • 'Last Day' is written on a closed taylors business in London, a victim of the UK recession. Reduced prices and services are listed on the glass with a poster urging customers to grab a bargain. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day02-19-12-2009.jpg
  • A Sun newspaper reader sits in the sunshine, below a statue in Threadneedle Street with the Bank of England to the left. We look upwards to the young man who wears a red shirt, all-typifying the Working Man in an English society still obsessed with class and status. This in front of the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influential in the UK's economy. There is a mixture of architectural eras here, with Sir John Soane's building legacy still a strong economic statement. The Sun is one of Britain's tabloid papers, selling over 3 million copies to mainly working class Britons, with a bias towards the young British male.
    bank_triangle01-08-04-2011_1.jpg
  • A medicine seller counts his money at a traditional Chinese medicine market in Bozhou, Anhui Province, China on 02 August, 2011. The birth place of legendary doctor Hua Tuo, Bozhou is now one of the four major trading centers in China for traditional Chinese medicine.
    QS110802Bozhou003.jpg
  • Money changers convert Chinese Renminbi (RMB) and Vietnamese Dong in the border town of Puzhai, Guangxi Province, China on 06 July 2009. Cross border trade between the two countries has skyrocketed in the past decade, and China is currently planning to build a high speed rail link between China and Singapore via Vietnam, which will certainly boost cross border commerce even more.
    QS090706Pingxiang031.jpg
  • On the day before Alistair Darling makes his 2010 Budget speech, around a dozen Robin Hoods delivered their own green Budget boxes to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to announce the introduction of a tax on banks’ financial transactions. Robin Hoods marched from College Green across Parliament Square en route to the Treasury offices. Inside the green boxes will be a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to kick start international agreement for new financial transaction taxes by announcing a new unilateral UK sterling tax. The boxes also contain info reminding of the support that the Robin Hood Tax campaign has gathered since it launched last month. Some 100 organisations are now backing the coalition, which has 141,085 fans on Facebook and 71,492 people have voted yes to a financial transactions tax on the campaign’s website www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
    10-robinhoodtax-9485.jpg
  • On the day before Alistair Darling makes his 2010 Budget speech, around a dozen Robin Hoods delivered their own green Budget boxes to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to announce the introduction of a tax on banks’ financial transactions. Robin Hoods marched from College Green across Parliament Square en route to the Treasury offices. Inside the green boxes will be a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to kick start international agreement for new financial transaction taxes by announcing a new unilateral UK sterling tax. The boxes also contain info reminding of the support that the Robin Hood Tax campaign has gathered since it launched last month. Some 100 organisations are now backing the coalition, which has 141,085 fans on Facebook and 71,492 people have voted yes to a financial transactions tax on the campaign’s website www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
    10-robinhoodtax-7643.jpg
  • On the day before Alistair Darling makes his 2010 Budget speech, around a dozen Robin Hoods delivered their own green Budget boxes to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to announce the introduction of a tax on banks’ financial transactions. Robin Hoods marched from College Green across Parliament Square en route to the Treasury offices. Inside the green boxes will be a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to kick start international agreement for new financial transaction taxes by announcing a new unilateral UK sterling tax. The boxes also contain info reminding of the support that the Robin Hood Tax campaign has gathered since it launched last month. Some 100 organisations are now backing the coalition, which has 141,085 fans on Facebook and 71,492 people have voted yes to a financial transactions tax on the campaign’s website www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
    10-robinhoodtax-7611.jpg
  • As Londoners await the imminent second coronavirus lockdown it's business as usual in the West End with large numbers of people, some wearing face masks and some not, brave the rain passing a money exchange on Oxford Street to go shopping on what will be the last weekend before a month-long total lockdown in the UK on 1st November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The three tier system in the UK has not worked sufficiently, to suppress the virus, and there have have been calls by politicians for a 'circuit breaker' complete lockdown to be announced to help the growing spread of the Covid-19.
    20201101_oxford st before lockdown_0...jpg
  • Man looking at a screen showing the various monetary exchange rates for the countries of the World as he stands beside a poster advertising weight loss in the City of London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190821_exchange rates_001.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany.
    deutschmarks_tin01-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an elderly lady is handed her change after buying some cauliflowers at a market stall, on 1st June 1990, in Leipzig, eastern Germany former DDR.
    DDR_market_stall-01-06-1990.jpg
  • During a downpour, an afternoon of heavy rainfall in London, a group of three tourists wearing matching plastic macs with Union jack flags, emerge from a Bureau de Change in central London on 7th June 2016.
    whitehall_people-02-07-06-2016.jpg
  • Bobby Lee of BTC China photographed at his office in Shanghai, China on 16 December 2013. BTC China is quickly becoming the world's largest Bitcoin exchange in the world.
    QS131216Shanghai020_1_1.jpg
  • Bobby Lee of BTC China photographed at his office in Shanghai, China on 16 December 2013. BTC China is quickly becoming the world's largest Bitcoin exchange in the world.
    QS131216Shanghai009_1_1.jpg
  • Bobby Lee of BTC China photographed at his office in Shanghai, China on 16 December 2013. BTC China is fastly becoming the world's largest Bitcoin exchange in the world. Bobby Lee of BTC China photographed at his office in Shanghai, China on 16 December 2013. BTC China is quickly becoming the world's largest Bitcoin exchange in the world.
    QS131216Shanghai003_1_1.jpg
  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909 In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths03-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • An analyst for the Enron Corporation, the American energy company based in Houston, Texas, stares transfixed into two computer monitors in the London office at Grosvenor Place, opposite the Queen's official residence, Buckingham Palace. Two Cross of St George flags perch to the tops of the screens. Informal dress was practised in this Enron company building before its eventual bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed around 21,000 people  and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of $111 billion in 2000. Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" but has since become a popular symbol of willful corporate fraud and corruption.
    RB-0063.jpg
  • Filled with suits, jackets, trousers, and overcoats, the choices of mens' office worker clothes fill a shop front window belonging to Mr Byrite, a high-street clothes store chain in London England UK. Bargain sale prices for the items of clothing are all over the window display, offering discounts for £30, £40 or £60 and the mannequins used to wear these clothes either have bald-headed representations of men, or faceless white models wearing sun glasses. There is a sale of cheap items attracting young city men, far from traditional work attire, and more fashionable for the day.
    RB_074-16-02-1992.jpg
  • A man walks past a Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corp (HSBC) sign at the bank's new China head office in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010.  Originated in Shanghai and Hongkong in 1865, HSBC is now  the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine. It has around 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories.
    QS100609Shanghai14.jpg
  • Money changers convert Chinese RMB and Vietnamese Dong in the border town of Puzhai, Guangxi Province, China on 06 July 2009. Cross border trade between the two countries has skyrocketed in the past decade, and China is currently planning to build a high speed rail link between China and Singapore via Vietnam, which will certainly boost cross border commerce even more.
    QS090706Pingxiang054.jpg
  • On the day before Alistair Darling makes his 2010 Budget speech, around a dozen Robin Hoods delivered their own green Budget boxes to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to announce the introduction of a tax on banks’ financial transactions. Robin Hoods marched from College Green across Parliament Square en route to the Treasury offices. Inside the green boxes will be a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to kick start international agreement for new financial transaction taxes by announcing a new unilateral UK sterling tax. The boxes also contain info reminding of the support that the Robin Hood Tax campaign has gathered since it launched last month. Some 100 organisations are now backing the coalition, which has 141,085 fans on Facebook and 71,492 people have voted yes to a financial transactions tax on the campaign’s website www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
    10-robinhoodtax-7696.jpg
  • On the day before Alistair Darling makes his 2010 Budget speech, around a dozen Robin Hoods delivered their own green Budget boxes to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to announce the introduction of a tax on banks’ financial transactions. Robin Hoods marched from College Green across Parliament Square en route to the Treasury offices. Inside the green boxes will be a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to kick start international agreement for new financial transaction taxes by announcing a new unilateral UK sterling tax. The boxes also contain info reminding of the support that the Robin Hood Tax campaign has gathered since it launched last month. Some 100 organisations are now backing the coalition, which has 141,085 fans on Facebook and 71,492 people have voted yes to a financial transactions tax on the campaign’s website www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
    10-robinhoodtax-7589.jpg
  • 9 British pound coins in the palm of woman’s hand.
    06-cash_9805.jpg
  • A man walks past a closed exit to Oxford Circus Underground station in the early evening on Oxford Street in London on March 27th, 2020. The centre of London is extremely quiet with almost every business closed and very few people about because of the Governments lockdown measures due to the Coronavirus crisis.
    WestEnd_Night-5488.jpg
  • On the day before Alistair Darling makes his 2010 Budget speech, around a dozen Robin Hoods delivered their own green Budget boxes to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to announce the introduction of a tax on banks’ financial transactions. Robin Hoods marched from College Green across Parliament Square en route to the Treasury offices. Inside the green boxes will be a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to kick start international agreement for new financial transaction taxes by announcing a new unilateral UK sterling tax. The boxes also contain info reminding of the support that the Robin Hood Tax campaign has gathered since it launched last month. Some 100 organisations are now backing the coalition, which has 141,085 fans on Facebook and 71,492 people have voted yes to a financial transactions tax on the campaign’s website www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
    10-robinhoodtax-7820.jpg
  • International currency rates on the board outside a bureau-de-change in Hradcany district, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    prague-154-19-03-2018.jpg
  • International currency rates on the board outside a bureau-de-change in Hradcany district, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • Foreign currency exchange board advertising No Commission in central London. On the board that is propped up against a wall in this busy tourist area, formerly a market of fruit and flowers produce, we see five nationalities' currencies represented with their current rates against the Pound sterling. The US and Canadian Dollar, the Euro, Yen and the Swiss Franc are there with respective flags to attract those wishing to change money.
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  • Cracked glass in a foreign currency exchange rates window. Currencies from the Eurozone and the USA, to Canada and Egypt, are displayed in the window of a post office in south London where customers are able to buy their foreign holiday money. The rates are there too for buying and selling notes and coins from countries abroad. The glass has been smashed, its cracks spreading out from the central point of impact, a metaphor for the cracks in the global economy.
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  • Fuzzy dice with the Union Jack hang on display at a small shop at the China Commodity City in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
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  • Line worker Wu Xianpin holds up a Harry Potter Gryffindor scarf at the Yiwu Wells Knitting Products Co., Ltd factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
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  • A city worker buys a copy of the Evening Standard with a headline relating to the ERM crisis in 1992, known as Black Wednesday which referred to the events of 16 September 1992 when the British Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit. George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, made over US$1 billion profit by short selling sterling. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion, with the actual cost being £3.3 billion which was revealed in 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act
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  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoN.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoH.jpg
  • Eggs and tofu float in a bowl of warmed Chinese soy sauce in Shanghai, China. A very common street snack, these can be bought all over Shanghai and China from small stalls which make a few Reminbi Yuan, Chinese currency for their owners. It is common to see this food being served as a sideline to another business; a newsagent who also serves some simple street food.
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  • A man smoking a cigarette while his child plays in a toy car in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
    QS130306Yiwu039_1_1.jpg
  • Yu Hexi, owner of  the Yiwu Beautiful Flower Co. Ltd, stands in his showroom in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
    QS130306Yiwu037_1_1.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoY.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters pretend to be greedy bankers drinking champagne during a protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoU.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoR.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoP.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoO.jpg
  • Robin Hood Tax supporters protest at the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England in the City of London. Campaigners today set up a giant roulette table in the City of London to protest against bankers’ taking risky bets and lining their pockets with billions in a game where taxpayers had to bail them out when things went wrong. The giant casino board, complete with chips, roulette wheel and image from renowned artist Peter Kennard was in front of the Royal Exchange in the City from 12pm. Casino bankers' placed multi-billion pound bets in a game they were guaranteed to win. The tax would apply to speculative trade on financial products: stocks, bonds commodities and currency transactions. The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.05% on banks’ financial transactions. Introduced globally, it would raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year for good causes.
    15062011robin hood tax demoA.jpg
  • Tourist currency rates and royal family souvenirs and merchandise on sale in a tourist gift shop window as the royal town of Windsor gets ready for the royal wedding between Prince Harry and his American fiance Meghan Markle, on 14th May 2018, in London, England.
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