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...“Back at the time of Moonlight, I thought we’d just keep making Moonlights. I didn’t think we’d make a nine-hour drama for television either.”...
...To hear them talk, one might think the striking railway workers and student anarchists were descendants of Jeanne d’Arc....
...It has also secured a new seven-year contract for the design, production and delivery of weapons handling and launch equipment for the South Korean Jangbogo III submarine – the third in a potential multi-boat...
...“He’d stand in the corner and you’d come up and he’d appraise you and make you feel terribly grateful,” says Astor. “‘Kas has allowed you to buy a picture!’...
...D) I do therefore believe that we should be looking closely at how we can get better workforce engagement and input and that properly managed by the chairman of the board, employee representation on the...
...“The way people were talking you’d think this was as big as Mount Rushmore....
...Natixis, which is 73 per cent owned by Banques Populaires Caisses d’Epargne, the mutual retail bank, is a wholesale banking, insurance and asset management business....
...CEO Anthony Jenkins will also unveil plans to reduce the balance sheet in order to achieve a core tier one capital ratio of around 9.5%. under “fully-loaded” Basel III rules, according to one person briefed...
...On the Basel III global rule book, one key area remains up for debate – that of the so-called net stable funding ratio, a new proposed measure of banks’ financing solidity....
...iii; e) serve with a smile....
...Global regulators are midway through imposing tough new capital standards on banks via the Basel III requirements, but Lord Turner believes that tackling the more fluid risks posed by the broader non-bank...
...I’d had a full career,” says Harman, who also had a stint in the Carter administration as special counsel to the defence department....
...The Basel III capital rules are designed to make the financial system safer by making banks build up risk-absorbent “core tier one” capital to at least 7 per cent of risk-weighted assets....
...The drive comes against the background of the so-called Basel III rules, being phased in by 2019....
...announced last week should raise the bank’s ratio of core tier one capital to risk-weighted assets from 7.1 to 8.7 per cent and to about 10 per cent by the end of the year, as defined by the new Basel III...
...But the stance of the Bank of Italy, led by Mario Draghi, and finance minister Giulio Tremonti has switched, with both men piling pressure on the banks in recent weeks to accelerate compliance with Basel III...
...Mr Tremonti and Mr Draghi have urged the banks to comply early with the requirements of the new Basel III rules on global capital requirements, due to be phased in by 2019....
...The overriding background is the Basel III rulebook, drawn up by regulators to push up capital ratios to higher levels....
...Reaction from Gary Jenkins of Evolution Securities: Turning from one potential default to another…Just as it was all going so well….S&P just picked up the can…....
...Mr Varley’s stance is particularly surprising because Barclays is among the hardest hit of Europe’s banks by the Basel III changes to regulatory capital....
...Patrick Jenkins is the FT’s Banking Editor patrick.jenkins@ft.com Mark Kleinman is away...
...Some nations, largely for reasons of historical accident, had strong cases against a fair few of the Basel III proposals....
...“We are three or four times where we thought we’d be a year ago,” says one bank executive responsible for securitisation. “But we are not going back to peak levels, nor should we.”...
...So, they will have two sets of conversations – one on the platform and one, I’d imagine, behind the scenes....
...Works such as the 1924 photograph “Violon D’Ingres” are shown alongside silent films and paintings in what should be a comprehensive and illuminating retrospective. Continues until March 14....
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