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Pay plan and tax warning from ABI
The Association of British Insurers has cautioned boards against approving pay plans that would add to costs and eat into shareh... Read and comment | Read original article -
Geithner under pressure on AIG payments
Some Democrats echoed the demands of Republicans for the Treasury secretary to explain his role in the decision to pay off the c... Read and comment | Read original article -
Held hostage by the City's bankers
Bank investors need to assert much tighter control of their possessions and the state should, instead, introduce reforms to make... Read and comment | Read original article -
Companies set to bring forward dividends
Many UK companies are drawing up plans to accelerate the payment of dividends in a move that would allow wealthy private shareho... Read and comment | Read original article -
Insurers pay out more for fewer air crashes
Pay-outs for claims related to airline crashes last year reached almost $2.5bn, the second-highest amount in the history of comm... Read and comment | Read original article -
UBS client data transfer ruled illegal
The order last year compelling UBS to release the names of 255 US offshore clients by the Swiss financial regulator was illegal,... Read and comment | Read original article -
Bear Stearns name set for scrapheap
More than 86 years after Joseph Bear, Robert Stearns, and Harold Mayer pooled $500,000 in capital and founded an equity trading ... Read and comment | Read original article -
Kirsh abandons Minerva bid
Nathan Kirsh, the South African investor, has conceded defeat in his attempt to take over the London developer after shareholder... Read and comment | Read original article
