Santander and Royal Bank own stakes in each other, and have swapped assets in the past.

The special liquidity scheme, which allowed banks to swap hard-to-sell assets such as sub-prime loans for more liquid government bonds, is due to expire next year.

We swap assets around between corporations, always for perfectly valid reasons, so that the non-profit corporations pay the expenses as we go along.

Some analysts suggested that Charter would be willing to swap assets with other cable operators to gain market share in urban Los Angeles.

In 2005, Cablevision bought all of FSN Chicago when NewsCorp swapped assets with the cable company.

That would satisfy one agenda of Mr. Malone's, which is to swap assets for stock in a tax-free transaction.

Mr. Levin indicated that he might prefer to swap assets.

They have been swapping assets and service stations.

When it comes to swapping money and assets back and forth between the two countries, though, the U.S. and Brazil don't always settle up in cash.

Yes - just use the money to create jobs instead of swapping assets at the banks.