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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sajid is a businessman and private investor. He was previously a senior Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG. In this Platform he argues that current financial crisis in Dubai will hit UK banks hard and makes the need for action...
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Loan & Finance Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The ongoing legal battle between the banking industry and the Office of Fair Trading has at last reached its conclusion, and in a shock turnaround the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the banks. Originally courts had ruled in favour of the Office of Fair Trading, which had accused banks of levying bank charges [...]
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
In details, Standard Chartered Bank would provide package services of comprehensive currency management for Vinacomin in order to help the group and its subsidiaries in domestic and international services. Standard Chartered Bank also committed supporting Vinacomin in searching for capital raising channels such as issuing bonds, borrowing loans other channels in the capital markets in order to raise...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp , the largest U.S. bank, amended on Friday the compensation agreements of two senior executives, following a review by the pay czar.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Large losses feared at HSBC and RBS as City watchdog seeks urgent assurances City regulators are urgently seeking assurances that Britain's major banks are protected from the deepening debt crisis in Dubai amid fears that a possible default by the region's major property developer will cause another major jolt to the already fragile financial system. The Financial Services Authority is understood...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Is it possible for a porn star to cross over into mainstream movies? Not even a lead role in a Steven Soderbergh movie will help Judging by the evidence on display in The Girlfriend Experience , Steven Soderbergh 's leading lady, 21-year-old veteran porn star Sasha Grey, won't be the first person to breach the rock-solid wall that – to the naked eye, at least – appears to separate respectable...
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Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Or why a relatively tiny place like Dubai could be big trouble for the American banking system. And while UK banks, such as Standard Chartered, HSBC (HBC), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Barclays (BCS) are much more exposed to Dubai World, with a total of more than $30 billion in default risk according to J.P. [...]
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Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | yesterday
A little more Dubai news ... From Bloomberg: Dubai Debt May Be Higher Than $80 Billion, UBS Analysts Say Dubai... may owe more than the $80 billion to $90 billion in liabilities assumed by investors, UBS AG analysts said in a note. “Perhaps Dubai’s debt includes sizeable off-balance sheet liabilities that imply a total debt burden well above the $80 billion to $90 billion markets have estimated...
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SCSUScholars (Free subscription) | yesterday
A year ago when Pelosi and Bush decided to go forward bailing out the auto industry, David Brooks wondered if we are sliding into progressive corporatism. I went further with this in March . Now comes Jerry O'Driscoll . First, the Fed announced that it will evaluate bankers’ pay on the basis of how well they manage risk. How better to be a good risk manger in a bureaucrat’s eyes than to...
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Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is a superb example of the way the government is embracing Web 2.0. I have just seen a tweet from #hmtreasury pointing to the fact that there is now a bunch of photos of 11 Downing Street on flickr. Here they are! If you click through to them you will see a series of the kind of Marie Celeste style photos of stately homes that upmarket estate agents have put online when some member of the aristocracy...
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Mobile Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday
All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) is the largest and oldest trade union of bank employees in India. It is one of the premier trade unions in our country. AIBEA is guided by its twin policies of (a) Progress of the banking industry to enable it to play its due role in national development and [...]
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Omnivorist (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a week that, by common agreement, appears to have been another good one for the banks, I found myself digging out some notes I made of a discussion on the BBC Today program (25 September, 2009) This involved a bunch of bankers, hedge-fund managers and financial journalists discussing what had changed since the 2008 banking crisis. By common agreement the answer appeared to be 'not very much'. And...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Filed under: United States , News Those of us who love to travel know the feeling: you're in some completely foreign place and you find yourself thinking "Could I live here?" Sometimes, the answer is an overwhelming "Yes!" Even if you think you could live in a foreign place, the idea of packing up your life and family and disconnecting from all the comforts of home can be daunting...
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carrolltrust | 25/11/2009
Smith & Williamson Chartered Accountants named partners N F Hickling Gareth Pearce are the subject of ongoing serious criminal allegations of racketeering organised crime and criminal liquidation offences in the FBI Scotland Yard Carroll Trust $1,000,000,000 crime syndicate offshore tax evasion case. Smith & Williamson partners Peter Yeldon and Peter Mills also executed fraudulent valuations of the
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carrolltrust | 24/11/2009
Smith & Williamson Ltd Chartered Accountants leading independent providers of investment management accountancy tax corporate and financial advisory services are the subject of serious criminal allegations of racketeering and embezzlement in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy and corruption case. The Carroll Foundation Trust $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) "cross border"
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neilsamsung | 17/11/2009
Studies show the dream of homeownership is becoming a reality for a growing number of Americans. For example, according to the 2005 Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies State of the Nation's Housing Report, minorities are making inroads into all housing market segments across the United States. This trend is expected to continue with minorities making up a growing share of the homeowner population...