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| Spain's besieged caja sector has concluded a week-long roadshow of European investors as the public-sector savings banks seek to drum up interest in funding their revival |
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| The Financial Reporting Council will look into the lessons learnt from the credit crisis with the launch of a new inquiry into the audit and accounting profession's work with non-financial companies |
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| UK's biggest building society is increasing foreign currency charges on its FlexAccount bank card, a travel money 'best buy' used by more than 1m holidaymakers to boost their spending power overseas |
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| Investment trusts are being forced to cut pay-outs or dip into their reserves to fill the hole left by the suspension of BP's dividend |
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| CFO confidence dips for the first time in more than a year on concerns about the economy and the cost of financial and healthcare reforms, with the Optimism Index sliding about five points |
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| The Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing to ratchet up investigations on investment banks for their role in the US economic crisis |
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| Insurers face a radical shake-up in how they account for their business as the international accounting rule maker proposes new rules that investors say could reduce the insurance industry's cost of capital and boost stock prices |
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| Industrial companies have led the recovery after a crushing fall in earnings last year |
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| KBC Peel Hunt unveiled a long-awaited £74m staff-led buy-out from its Belgian parent company |
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| Spain's largest banking group unveils a slight year-on-year fall in first-half net profits, as bad-loan provisions and a poor domestic market offset solid growth across much of the group |
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| The FSA is broadening the scope of its pay code to more than 2.500 financial services companies to comply with EU legislation that introduced some of the world's toughest restrictions on bankers' bonuses |
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| US banks are taking advantage of improving earnings and growing investor demand to raise billions of dollars in debt at low interest rates, a move that could boost the sector's profits |
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| The stockbroker reported revenue broadly flat at £96.1m in the six months to June 30, reflecting the difficulties faced by City brokers in recovering from the crisis |
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| The US bank did not admit to charges that it failed to disclose more than $40bn in subprime mortgage exposure but the settlement includes information that may be useful in cases against it |
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| The world's biggest futures exchange says that banks will continue to trade OTC derivatives in much the same way as they did before the crisis in spite of US reforms |
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