FT.com / Companies / Banks – HSBC retreats on chief’s pay award. The FT notes: HSBC has yielded to shareholder protests and backed away from
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FT.com / Columnists / John Kay – Iceland should stand up to shameful bullying . John Kay makes this powerful point: When Scotland’s two largest
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Fears of mass UK banking exodus prove unfounded | Business | guardian.co.uk . Fears of a mass exodus by London’s financiers to the more favourable
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Stephen Hester to decline 2009 bonus. Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, is to decline any
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FT.com / Banking & Savings – Credit card rates reach 12-year high. Interest rates on credit cards have reached their highest levels for 12 years,
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Reuters have reported: A U.S. client of London-based HSBC pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with assets stashed abroad to evade taxes, part of a
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FT Alphaville » EU demands details on Greek swaps. Whose sticky little fingers are all over mis-accounting in Greece? All the usual suspects, bar, it
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Deloitte chief reignites accounting debate. The debate on how to account for banking losses goes to the core of
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AFP: Swiss still back bank secrecy: poll. According to news reports: A majority of Swiss people remain in favour of retaining the country’s long-cherished tradition
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