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• Independence May Cost Banks Billions

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-22

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's biggest banks would have to raise billions of pounds to achieve complete independence from state support, according to research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development.To become standalone institutions, the banks would have to raise their core capital ratios above 20 percent, the Paris...

  Tags: Bank, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Britain, Oecd, Oukbs

• OECD hikes US growth forecast, sees UK recession

  - 2008-09-02

  PARIS AFP — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday raised its forecast for US economic growth this year but cut its estimates for Japan and the eurozone, and said Britain faced recession. The OECD, the Paris-based grouping of 30 developed countries, said the US economy would...

  Tags: Britain, Japan, OECD, recession

• OECD hikes US growth forecast, sees Britain in recession

  - 2008-09-02

  PARIS AFP — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday raised its forecast for US economic growth this year but cut its estimates for Japan and the eurozone, and said Britain faced recession. The OECD, the Paris-based grouping of 30 developed countries, said the US economy would...

  Tags: Britain, Japan, OECD, recession

• OECD slams Britain's corporate bribery record: report

  - 2008-08-17

  LONDON AFP — OECD member-states have written to Britain criticising London's failure to deal with corporate bribery, the Financial Times said Sunday. According to the business daily's website, the letter was sent in June, around a month before the House of Lords, Britain's highest court, overturned a ruling that...

  Tags: Britain, INTERNET, London, OECD

• THE ECONOMY: HOW BAD WILL IT GET A SPECIAL REPORT BY WESTMINSTER

  - 2008-06-08

  NOTHING travels faster than bad news. Last week a report from the international Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD ripped into the British economy, branding it the equivalent of a basket case. It criticised the way the UK has been run for the past decade, saying the options left...

  Tags: Bank of England, Britain, food, job, Manufacturing, OECD, RBS, U.K., unemployment

• schmoozer of Davos prepares to bare his teeth, The

  - 2008-01-26

  'Because of the miners' strike we were all asked to have only one light bulb on. My wife and I had to take baths together in order to economise on heating the water and since then we've always taken baths together, for 35 years, ' booms Angel Gurría in a...

  Tags: Britain, Davos, FINANCE, financial, OECD

• Markets turmoil could hit British economy: OECD research institute

  - 2007-09-27

  LONDON AFP — The recent financial markets chaos which plagued banking group Northern Rock could put the brakes on Britain's economic growth, the OECD warned Thursday. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in an annual survey on the British economy, also predicted the Bank of England may be...

  Tags: Britain, FINANCE, financial, OECD

• Saving the day; Pension prospects.(Stingy Britain's pension woes)

  - 2007-06-09

  Young workers will be poor when they retire unless they save more BRITAIN'S state-pension system is known to be tight-fisted. Just how stingy it is emerges from a report this week from the OECD: the promise made to today's young workers is the least...

  Tags: Benefits, Britain, OECD, pension, reform, worker

• Britain held back information from OECD in fraud probe: official

  - 2007-06-08

  LONDON AFP — Britain did not give full evidence to the world's main anti-bribery watchdog because of national security concerns after Britain dropped a probe into a multi-billion pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia, a spokesman for the attorney-general told The Guardian on Friday. According to other British press...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, BAE Systems Plc., Britain, fraud, Government, OECD, SOFTWARE, Strategy

• British official denies concealing payment to Saudi prince

  - 2007-06-07

  LONDON AFP — Britain's top legal officer denied Friday that he concealed large payments made to a Saudi prince from an international anti-bribery watchdog probing a giant arms deal. The Guardian newspaper alleged that Attorney General Peter Goldsmith knew about the existence of payments totalling more than one billion...

  Tags: Britain, British Broadcasting Corp., FINANCE, OECD, payment