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WORLD’S 50 SAFEST BANKS 2012
Global Finance announces a half-yearly update World’s 50 Safest Banks: April 2012 NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 Bank stability is...
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Cover Story: EUROPE 2020
AFTER THE TURMOIL: WHAT COMES NEXT? By Jonathan Gregson, Justin Keay and Vanessa Drucker How the European Union will look in 2020 is unclear. Whether it will see tighter union, a tiered eurozone, or will cease to exist ...
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Hildebrand Out At SNB After Wife’s FX Trading Binge
NEWSMAKERS: SWITZERLAND By Valentina Pasquali In the midst of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, a scandal hit the beleaguered continent's financial system in January. Hildebrand forced out of Swiss Central Bank role The head of Switzerland's central bank, ...
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Passera Faces Tough Job To Win Over Italian Parliament
NEWSMAKERS: ITALY By Paula Green Ready or not, as minister of economic development, infrastructure and transport for the newly-formed government of prime minister Mario Monti, Italian banker-turned-bureaucrat Corrado Passera will be honing his political skills this year. ...
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AT&T Won’t Hang Up On T-Mobile
MILESTONES: US/GERMANY By Gordon Platt Facing a $4 billion breakup fee, AT&T is working hard to make its proposed merger with T-Mobile a reality, despite regulatory stumbling blocks. Deal to create the largest US wireless carrier is in ...
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Rajoy Hopes To Reassure Investors In Spain
NEWSMAKERS: SPAIN By Valentina Pasquali Like Greece and Italy, Spain too has a new government, tasked with bringing the country back from the brink. Rajoy heads new government Unlike Greece’s Lucas Papademos and Italy’s Mario Monti, Spain’s prime ...
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Daunting Tasks For Papademos
NEWSMAKERS: EUROPE By Valentina Pasquali Greece’s interim prime minister Lucas Papademos was appointed in November, after much squabbling between the country’s two main political parties. Papademos most qualified candidate for the job Papademos faces the daunting tasks ...
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New Hydrocarbon Deposit May Kick-start Cyprian Economy
MILESTONES: CYPRUS By Justin Keay These are roller coaster times for Cyprus. Resource wealth to benefit Cypriots But there may be very good news on the horizon. US company Noble Energy is drilling offshore close to where ...
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The Italian Job
NEWSMAKERS: ITALY By Anita Hawser As yields on Italian debt crept above 7% in mid-November, all eyes were on Italy as the next house of cards that could come tumbling down in the eurozone. Bini Smaghi out ...
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FX Supplement: Is The Euro Crumbling?
IS THE EURO CRUMBLING? By Gordon Platt Major reform is needed, but whether the political will is there to make large scale changes remains to be seen. The alternative may be the end of the eurozone as it ...
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Madeira Debts Add To Portuguese Concerns
MILESTONES: PORTUGAL By Matt Greco With the government of Portugal announcing one austerity measure after another to meet IMF-imposed budgetary guidelines and as the rating agencies hack away at the credit-worthiness of the country’s financial institutions, new revelations ...
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Strong Investor Interest In Irish Bonds
MILESTONES: IRELAND By Matt Greco In Ireland each day’s financial developments seem to bring either a positive surprise or a mild disappointment. Irish four- and eight-year bond sales in September generated the greatest one-day increase in price ...