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  • Bank of England made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks 30 Nov 2009 10:33 GMT
    ... made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks Bank of England governor Mervyn King has ... issued at the height of the international banking crisis, were to prevent the collapse of ... failing in Britain, Iceland, Denmark, Germany and Belgium. So great was the crisis in Ireland ...

  • Tax haven vacation: Little Luxembourg and other offshore banking spots need your help (Yesterday) 26 Nov 2009 07:33 GMT
    ... haven vacation: Little Luxembourg and other offshore banking spots need your help LUXEMBOURG -- Sadly, ... visitors take the train from Paris; Brussels, Belgium, or Frankfurt (about $60 each way if ... just 440,000. It also has 151 foreign banks, 9,000 holding companies and is the eighth-largest ...

  • Tax haven vacation: Little Luxembourg and other offshore banking spots need your help (11/25/2009) 27 Nov 2009 07:15 GMT
    ... haven vacation: Little Luxembourg and other offshore banking spots need your help LUXEMBOURG -- Sadly, ... visitors take the train from Paris; Brussels, Belgium, or Frankfurt (about $60 each way if ... just 440,000. It also has 151 foreign banks, 9,000 holding companies and is the eighth-largest ...

  • E.C.B. Faces Tricky Decision in Weaning Banks Off Easy Credit 2 Dec 2009 20:10 GMT
    ... debt markets, continuing balance sheet problems at banks and the strength of the euro are ... The E.C.B. wants to support a still-fragile banking sector without creating a culture of dependency. ... Commerzbank, based in Frankfurt, and Dexia of Belgium, as well as midsize Spanish lenders, which ...

  • Leterme: Belgium's gaffe-prone boomerang premier 26 Nov 2009 07:18 GMT
    ... of his bitterly-divided country. Brussels -- New Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme is as well ... to separatist tensions, a past claim that Belgium has no "intrinsic value" even as a ... of office in December 2008 amid a banking bailout scandal, returned as Van Rompuy's foreign ...

  • Belgium Sentences Genocidaire to 30 Years 3 Dec 2009 06:40 GMT
    ... a self-confessed top Genocide criminal by a Belgian Court, but reckons that it should be ... many cases that should be tried in Belgium. The Assize Court sentenced Ephraim Nkezabera nicknamed ... Assize Court sentenced Ephraim Nkezabera nicknamed the "Banker of the Genocide" to a 30-year prison ...

  • E.C.B. to Press Ahead With Tightening Credit for Banks 3 Dec 2009 20:10 GMT
    ... easy credit that has been keeping some banks afloat for the past year. But it left ... or buying instruments like government bonds or mortgage backed securities outright to stimulate economic activity. ... like Commerzbank in Germany and Dexia in Belgium, while midsize Spanish lenders also appear highly ...

  • Citi faces 1,000 angry investors at Belgian trial 1 Dec 2009 17:13 GMT
    ... BRUSSELS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - U.S. banking giant Citigroup Inc ( ) faced criminal charges ... sold investments connected to Lehman Brothers in Belgium. Citibank Belgium is accused of failing sufficiently ...

  • Rwanda banker gets 30-year sentence for war crimes 1 Dec 2009 19:30 GMT
    ... to 30 years in prison by a Belgian court which found him guilty of war crimes ... authorities while visiting a family member in Belgium. © Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved ...

  • Rwandan banker guilty of genocide murders 1 Dec 2009 00:01 GMT
    ... Brussels court on Monday found a Rwandan banker guilty of an indeterminate number of murders, ... accusations. The trial is the fourth in Belgium linked to the genocide in Rwanda, in ... them from the Tutsi ethnic minority. The Belgian court of assizes had already convicted the ...

  • Belgian court jails Rwandan for 30 years 1 Dec 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... A Brussels court has sentenced Rwandan Ephrem Nkezabera, dubbed ... sentenced Rwandan Ephrem Nkezabera, dubbed the 'genocide banker', to 30 years in prison for war ... his orders. For the first time in Belgian history rape was thus deemed to be ...

  • EU to approve more banking data for US spooks 30 Nov 2009 16:01 GMT
    ... European home affairs ministers are today set to ... will see them turn reams of private banking data over to US intelligence. The expected ... allows US authorities to monitor SWIFT, the Belgian company that acts as clearing house for ...

  • Coalition tension grows over US banking terror law 26 Nov 2009 15:03 GMT
    ... Coalition tension grows over US banking terror law The German government faces pressure ... 15 million transactions between more than 8,300 banks around the world. Allowing the agreement to ... Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has its headquarters in Belgium. US investigators are placing increasing importance on ...

  • Banks cuts investments in firms manufacturing cluster munitions 30 Nov 2009 09:01 GMT
    ... Banks cut investments in firms manufacturing cluster munitions Twenty-seven ... investments in companies manufacturing cluster munitions, says Belgian non-governmental organization Network Vlaanderen. Fourteen of those ... the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and the Mizuho Financial Group. All three ...

  • Banks cut investments in firms manufacturing cluster munitions 30 Nov 2009 10:20 GMT
    ... Banks cut investments in firms manufacturing cluster munitions Twenty-seven ... investments in companies manufacturing cluster munitions, says Belgian non-governmental organization Network Vlaanderen. Fourteen of those ... the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and the Mizuho Financial Group. All three ...


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