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People queue to use an ATM machine outside of a Laiki Bank branch in Larnaca, Cyprus, Saturday, March 16, 2013.
(photo: AP / Petros Karadjias)
EU rules threaten free banking and credit card cashback
The Daily Telegraph
Britons have to pay for using our debit and credit cards - and cashback could be scrapped. | We may have to pay for using our debit and credit cards - and cashback could be scrapped Photo: ALAMY | By Rosie Murray-West | 7:00AM BST 05 May 2013 | Comments | Free banking could disappear under Euro...
An electronic board shows the curve of the German index DAX at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011.
(photo: AP / dapd, Martin Oeser)
German stocks - Factors to watch on April 19
Reuters
FRANKFURT, April 19 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday: | SAP | Q1 results. The business software group is expected to report its quarterly operating profit, excluding special items, rose 16 percent to 968 million euros ($1.3 billion). Poll: | Rel...
The Foreign Bribery Law Comes to Wall Street
Dealbook
> | It was almost inevitable that the government’s crackdown on bribery would hit a Wall Street firm. | Federal prosecutors filed charges on Tuesday against two brokers working for Direct Access Partners, a Miami-based affiliate of a New York broke...
EU rules threaten free banking and credit card cashback
The Daily Telegraph
Britons have to pay for using our debit and credit cards - and cashback could be scrapped. | We may have to pay for using our debit and credit cards - and cashback could be scrapped Photo: ALAMY | By Rosie Murray-West | 7:00AM BST 05 May 2013 | ...
Pushing for end to deadlock over China's audit secrets
South China Morning Post
The US Chamber of Commerce has urged Washington and Beijing to resolve a dispute over the auditing of US-listed Chinese firms, warning failure to do so will seriously hurt both countries. | "The American business community has become increasingly ala...
Reforms in tax havens aid sleuths
South China Morning Post
As opaque networks of secretive companies linking offshore havens with Hong Kong are forced to become more transparent, it will be easier to track down assets hidden in jurisdictions such as the British Virgin Islands (BVI), says William McGovern, a ...
French tax probe targets HSBC: prosecutor
South China Morning Post
France has opened a probe into whether British bank HSBC offered illicit products to help French clients avoid tax in Switzerland, the Paris prosecutors’ office said. | It is the latest sign of governments cracking down on tax evasion and money lau...
German stocks - Factors to watch on April 19
Reuters
FRANKFURT, April 19 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday: | SAP | Q1 results. The business software group is expected to report its quarterly operating profit, excluding special items, rose 16 percen...
Police raid JPMorgan as Monte Paschi probe widens
South China Morning Post
Italian tax police descended on the Milan offices of JP Morgan in search of documents in their investigation into suspected fraud at Monte dei Paschi bank, as a scandal rocking Italian finance spreads to foreign banks doing business there. | The arri...
Sports
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and his close ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, flash victory signs at the start of their press conference, after registering candidacy of Rahim Mashaei for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Iran's powerful former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has entered the race for the June presidential election. Simultaneously, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's close confident Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei also signed up in the last minutes before Saturday's registration deadline.
(photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi)
Rafsanjani enters presidential race
Belfast Telegraph
Iran's powerful former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has entered the race for the June presidential election. | Simultaneously, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's close confidant Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei also signed up in the last minutes before Saturday's registration deadline. | State TV showed both men at the Interior Ministry registering their...
Business
Sergio Garcia
(photo: Creative Commons / Jim Epler)
Garcia shines at Sawgrass
Belfast Telegraph
Already the leading money winner in Players Championship history, Spain's Sergio Garcia is in pole position to pocket another £1.1million from the event after the second round at Sawgrass. | Garcia, winner of golf's so-called unofficial fifth major in 2008, added a 65 to his opening 68 to lie 11 under par, one shot clear of world number one Tiger ...



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