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..., and their high street cousins, such as National Westminster....
...Cameron earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to Greensill, the supply-chain finance company whose unravelling earlier this year dragged the former prime minister into Westminster’s biggest lobbying...
...Gary Stevenson I worked in the city and I paid 60 per cent: 50 per cent income tax plus 11 per cent national insurance, and I had a few million pounds....
...He later retired to the Two Chairmen pub in Westminster for a pint with staff, apparently unfazed by the market....
...Bernie Ecclestone is due to appear before Westminster magistrates’ court charged with “fraud by false representation”....
...But when, in his funeral eulogy in Westminster Abbey, Diana’s brother Charles pointedly contrasted the monarchy with his sister’s authentic nobility, the polemic hit a national nerve, and not in a good way...
...“In relation to this, Cobham has indicated to the board that it is minded to offer the UK government appropriate undertakings in respect of national security.”...
...That won plaudits in Beijing but catapulted Wong’s name on to the radars of irate politicians in Westminster and Washington....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Sebastian Payne Welcome to Payne’s Politics, your central insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me, Sebastian Payne....
...The uproar over Mr Hui’s accounts pinged from Victoria Harbour to Westminster, where there were calls for the bank to be denounced and its executives hauled before parliament....
...“There is strong evidence of a ‘V-shaped’ recovery in Asia,” said chief executive Noel Quinn. “We will not put our strong balance sheet and liquidity at risk . . ....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...One way of doing this, which Mr Davies is drawing up proposals for, is a state development bank inspired by Germany’s KfW, which could issue regional infrastructure bonds....
...Chief financial officer Ewen Stevenson told the Financial Times the bank was expecting a “much sharper” V-shaped recession, with any recovery pushed further out into 2021....
...Shareholders in Barclays will descend on Westminster’s Queen Elizabeth II Centre on Thursday to cast their votes in one of the most audacious assaults by an activist investor on a UK company in recent history...
...Creditors such as banks that have lent to Thomas Cook have first claim on any proceeds from the company’s remaining assets but employees could be compensated from government funds such as national insurance...
...Barclays, Legal & General, Lloyds Bank, Prudential, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered all remain top-tier members while Midland Bank and National Westminster Bank have been absorbed into HSBC...
...Exports of goods to China account for 7 per cent of all German exports, or 2.8 per cent of national output in 2018....
...The Jesner v Arab Bank ruling, which went against terrorism victims trying to sue alleged financial supporters of suicide bombers, essentially held that the key American law (the Alien Tort Claims Act) did...
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...But confronted with what most of us considered a moment of madness when National Westminster Bank announced a takeover of Legal & General, he saw a once-in-a-lifetime chance for BoS to buy the much bigger...
...There was no attempt to access the bank’s systems and no customer details or accounts were compromised....
...The National Crime Agency said on Wednesday that Daniel Kaye, 29, of Surrey, is accused of using an infected network of computers, called the “Mirai#14 botnet” to attack and blackmail Lloyds Banking Group...
...And, with banks potentially involved in the discussions, analysts took this to mean a debt for equity swap....
...Income tax and national insurance made up some £31bn of this, or £29,300 for each of the 1.1m people employed. Corporation tax contributed a further £11.6bn....
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