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...StanChart reinstated its dividend as it followed other banks in releasing provisions for bad loans, helping profits surge 55 per cent to $1.15bn....
...Danske Bank’s money-laundering scandal has followed the plot arc of Hamlet save for the conclusion....
...Claudius in Hamlet, Act IV Scene V You know those bells that are supposed to never ring to signal a turn in the market? Well, they started ringing on September 27 and 28....
...Merrill Lynch, Bank of America’s broker-dealer arm, agreed to pay a $415m penalty and admitted wrongdoing to settle the SEC charges....
...(“He popped in between the election and my hopes,” groaned Sam West’s Hamlet about Larry Lamb’s telefriendly Claudius.)...
...• JPMorgan Asset Management has appointed Claudius Weissbarth as executive director of European client strategy in the global real assets team. Mr Weissbarth has moved from BlackRock....
...Titania in sequins and bondage sandals falls asleep on top of a snooker table — its green baize an urban parody of the grassy bank where wild thyme grows — in Tom Hunter’s 2011 tableau repositioning A Midsummer...
...Some items fit their parts because of their function: a torch for ardent Romeo, a brandy bottle for boozy Falstaff, a canister of flea-killer for murderous Claudius....
...Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the rumblings from the Swiss bank caused a steep fall in the price of Claudius notes – from about $107 to $102, according to Barclays....
...Happily, the President of the European Central Bank has been ready to oblige....
...After all, the end of tacit state support, ratings ‘lift’, and the removal thereof have recently become issues for US banks, as well....
...Related links: I, Jean-Claudius- FT Alphaville Et tu Bernanke?- FT Alphaville Clutching at historians- FT Alphaville...
...If press reports are correct, a US bank was used for some of the alleged payments by BAE – which could change everything, under US law....
...Shakespeare has Polonius, a key adviser to Hamlet's uncle Claudius, implore “neither a borrower nor a lender be”, one of Shakespeare's most quoted lines....
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