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...Investment banks and private conglomerates, known as chaebols, poured money into the sector, seeing new opportunities to cash in....
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...Jan Thompson, of Jones Lang LaSalle, notes that setting up in Birmingham will have cost Deutsche only 55-60 per cent of what it would have cost in London, while the bank’s head in Birmingham talks of the...
...The dispute erupted after ABN tried to resist the RBS takeover by selling its US subsidiary LaSalle, which held the licence of the BankTrade software, to Bank of America earlier that year....
...Andrew Shrimpton, a partner at Kinetic Partners, a regulatory consultancy, recognises the red tape that regulations create, adding that fund houses’ inability to market their wares is not new....
...“Japanese banks are in good shape compared with European ones, so financing is readily available. It won’t be a sharp V-shaped rebound, but we do see a gentle recovery ahead.”...
...He joined Barclays Bank as a junior clerk in the Trentham branch in 1940 at 17 after a grammar school education at Longton High School....
...Groenink as Chairman of the Managing Board of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (“ABN AMRO”)....
...But are the banks of the Netherlands, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Germany and Italy not being a teeny-weeny bit modest in selling their wares?...
...Inside the dingy shops and offices of companies with names such as V.C. Francis Sons or Kanakam Trading are merchants dressed in dhotis....
...In addition to offering luxurious lodgings, of course, and being a convention centre for large meetings, it is a supremely efficient place to change (and raise) money (where else do banks routinely open...
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