Now 56, Sister Ping had a 15-year career as a top financier and enforcer among "snakeheads," as Chinese smugglers are known, the prosecutors say.

I've talked with top financiers, bankers, solicitors and accountants.

He also is unhappy that the Government invited Osama bin Laden, considered a top financier of terrorism by the United States, to take refuge in his homeland.

My dear Fiske, Marmion Algemeine is one of the top financiers in the known galaxy.

But some of New York's top financiers have a record of giving large contributions to Republican causes.

It appealed to the king and the top financiers of the day.

Despite his wealth, Mr. Paulson does not cultivate the airs often seen in top financiers.

It was a fairly modest machine; enough to confirm his status as a top financier, but not grand enough to mark him as a player.

The Thomson Reuters league tables list the top financiers in a particular industry.