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...They like to buy houses, and they like to send their kids to boarding schools and keep bank accounts. So that became their Achilles heel....
...The top 10 asset managers only account for 35 per cent of market share, making it the most fragmented industry globally after capital goods, according to Morgan Stanley....
...“People didn’t realise what was happening,” says Tatiana Dubuc, a 35-year-old carer and trade union representative for a group of six public care homes in the northern French port of Le Havre....
...This was largely driven by its acquisition of a further 35 per cent stake in the children’s television hit, Peppa Pig....
...child to a Gulen-linked school, or held an account with Bank Asya, an Islamic lender seized by the government last year....
...He receives a €320 cheque each month from the German authorities, which he cashes in a bank....
...At the same time, the Office for National Statistics amends national accounts data going back to 1997, with GDP growth from 2011-13 expected to be stronger than previously reported....
...Export volumes have risen by a third, and now account for more than 23 per cent of GDP, up from just 17 per cent in 2007....
...While the group will benefit from lower oil and commodity prices, the question is whether that is enough to offset the slowdown in emerging markets, which account for 57 per cent of sales....
...Adoboli, now 35, had a privileged upbringing. His father’s UN peacekeeping career took his family (he has a sister) away from Ghana when he was four, to Jerusalem and Damascus....
...Bank of Cyprus customers whose deposits were seized as part of an extraordinary move to rescue the island from financial collapse are cutting their losses and selling stakes in the bank at discount....
...Matt Gardiner joined StanChart from Swiss bank UBS only last month.” (Reuters) Barclays said on Wednesday it had launched an internal investigation into its foreign exchange trading operations....
...Citing rules designed to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, the US federal government has seized bank accounts belonging to Mt Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, and other exchanges....
...The NBR took heart from the decline in inflation to 3.14 per cent in December 2011 from 7.96 percent in December 2010....
...Unicredit advanced 5.2 per cent to €0.96, though Italy’s largest bank by assets had €245m seized by police as part of a probe into allegations of tax fraud....
...The market has suffered other indignities in its brief history, from value added tax frauds worth billions of euros to the cybertheft of millions of permits from companies’ electronic accounts....
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...The Eurofirst Travel & Leisure index dropped 1.3 per cent to 1,324.15, falling back from recent record highs. The session also saw the VDAX volatility index climb 6.8 per cent to 19.96....
...The islands are normally a source of tension between Moscow and Tokyo, which would like them back after they were seized by the Soviet Union in the final days of World War II. 1036 – Michiyo Nakamoto, one...
...Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, by Rodric Braithwaite, Profile Books, RRP£25, 417 pages Former ambassador Braithwaite’s book is simultaneously a grim account of the Soviet Union’s costly...
...The Union Budget cannot be a mere statement of Government accounts. It has to reflect the Government’s vision and signal the policies to come in future. 11....
...It is hard to understand pro-forma accounts and what is going on underneath.” In April, Merrill cut its profit forecast for Debenhams from £170m to £135m. Mr Templeman is toughing it out....
...All along the Mediterranean coast, Britons can shop for British groceries at ”Spainsbury’s”, a local supermarket, and open accounts with the same high-street banks they used back home....
...However the teaching method would be very different on an MBA. taking into the account the business experience of alumni....
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