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...The firm has made some key strategic moves which may leave it better placed to navigate the current environment than many of its peers....
...It may have taken 10 years – and a wedding – to persuade Girao to move out of South Kensington, but he has embraced his new home. “He is arguably a local,” says Byrnes....
...Mifid III? The FT takes a deep dive into the effects of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II....
...It was not the coat of arms of Claude Louis Hector de Villars, who was promoted in 1702....
...Given the intense recent weeks of Impressionist and Modern art auctions in New York in May, and the impact of Art Basel at the beginning of June, it’s a wonder that there’s any art left to sell — particularly...
...(BI) Basel III sign-off A deal to complete post-financial crisis capital rules for banks around the globe may be reached today....
...Much of the British commentariat has jumped on one word in the terse statement issued after the dinner between European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and UK prime minister Theresa May, which said...
...The issue was one of those raised at the now-infamous dinner between the UK prime minister Theresa May and the EU commission president Jean-Claude Juncker....
...Under the proposal tabled by Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, on Thursday, the EU would share out 160,000 refugees — four times as many as envisaged in a previous plan vetoed by Budapest...
...A longstanding critic of David Cameron, he once said: “As Bismarck said about Napoleon III, Cameron is a sphinx without a riddle.”...
...Aides to Jean-Claude Juncker, the incoming Commission president, rushed to Google his name....
...The established auctioneer Claude Aguttes, who will conduct the sale in a marquee sited in the grounds, hopes to raise more than €400,000 in total....
...Mr Moscovici added that tough new requirements under the Basel III capital requirements for banks had also played a role in CIF’s inability to stand on its own two feet....
...A memo to staff says “We respect our competitors”, etc… (Reuters, Financial Times, FT Alphaville) Seymour Pierce may sell 10% stake....
...Jean-Claude Trichet, the outgoing head of the European Central Bank, hit back Wednesday night at global banking executives who have called for the tough new “Basel III” bank safety rules to be weakened....
...That is well below the 10 per cent requirement that the UK’s Independent Commimssion on Banking may impose on domestic retail banking operations....
...Of course, banks could have to take on government bond holdings under Basel II and III — but then if peripheral bonds begin to receive greater risk-weightings than bunds in response to recent plans for a...
...Analysts say a bounce in euro/sterling may have triggered a short-covering rally against the dollar too....
...out the final details of the banking reform package known as Basel III....
...That may turn out to be the ultimate phantom giant. munchau@eurointelligence.com...
...The ECB president travels this weekend to Basel, Switzerland, were he will chair talks on new “Basel III” capital rules for banks....
...Not in the opinion of Jean-Claude Trichet....
...The following is the transcript of a Financial Times interview with Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president....
...The new “Basel III” rules, which are set to be phased in gradually by the end of 2018, come on top of legislative moves around the world....
...Easily available wholesale funding from non-bank sources, for example, may make it easier for a bank to ignore interest rate signals....
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