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Plans to Raise Deposit Protection: By Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - The government plans to raise the maximum compensation for victims of bank failures to 50,000 pounds but banks will not have to pay money upfront into the deposit protection scheme, the Treasury said on Tuesday. In a consultation document...; Tags: Bank, Financial, Treasury, British Bankers, Financial Services, Oukbs; News items 2008-07-01
Home Loan Approvals Dive to Record Low in May: By Matt Falloon LONDON (Reuters UK) - New home loan approvals nosedived at their sharpest annual pace in at least a decade to hit a record low in May, figures showed on Tuesday, raising fears the housing slowdown is about to escalate into a crash. The...; Tags: Bank, Housing Market, Economist, British Bankers, Mortgages, Financial Services, Finance; News items 2008-06-24
Libor 3-month Dollar Biggest Jump Since August 9: By Jamie McGeever LONDON (Reuters UK) - The interbank cost of borrowing three month dollar funds posted its biggest rise on Tuesday since August 9 last year, the day the global financial crisis erupted, as banks grappled with the prospect of rising interest rates. Federal...; Tags: Bank, Interest Rate, Euro, Libor, British Bankers, Financial Services, Financial Planning, London; News items 2008-06-10
BBA Credit Derivatives Report 2001/2002: This document reports on the . The growth of the global credit derivatives market has again dramatically surpassed previous expectations. It is now estimated that at the end of 2001 the global market excluding asset swaps accounted for an estimated $1189 billion or over $1 trillion. The projected growth rate...; Tags: Financial services, derivatives, asset; White papers 2002-09-17

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Mortgage approvals slump 20% to new low: More housing misery on both sides of the Atlantic puts pressure on policymakers The number of mortgages approved for house purchases slumped to an all-time low in May, leading lenders warned yesterday, as Britain's housing market crisis took a turn for the worse. The...; Articles 2008-06-25

Economics Diary: TOMORROW: British Bankers' Association mortgage approvals; ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet speaks in Brussels; American house prices. WEDNESDAY: CBIdistributive trades survey; Federal Reserve announcement on interest rates. THURSDAY: Bank of England Governor Mervyn King at the Treasury Select Committee; US unemployment. ...; Articles 2008-06-23
Buy when stocks are down? Let's explode that myth: Even British newspapers carried pictures on Friday of two Wall Street bankers being marched into court by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This American custom of publicly parading white-collar defendants is known as the "perp walk" after the police slang for perpetrator. The indictment is...; Articles 2008-06-23
DOES SIR TOM FEEL HUNTED?: Last July, the Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter felt confident enough in his investments to pledge Pounds 1bn to charity. A year has proved a long time in the retail and property sectors. By James Thompson Business Analysis Eleven months ago, the Scottish...; Articles 2008-06-17
Crunch to hike outsourcing: Business News IN BRIEF *The credit crunch will drive a new wave of outsourcing and "offshoring" of operations to cheaper locations by financial services companies, a survey shows. Nearly half of financial companies surveyed said they expected to increase their level of outsourcing, according to the Management...; Articles 2008-06-16
BBA bows to pressure to overhaul Libor: The key Dollar Libor interest rate has registered its biggest increase since near the start of the credit crunch after the British Bankers Association bowed to industry pressure and announced reforms to its benchmark measure for inter-bank borrowing. The London inter-bank offered rate for the dollar has...; Articles 2008-06-11
Bank and FSA clash over banking reforms: The Governor of the Bank of England and the chairman of the Financial Services Authority clashed publicly yesterday over who should have the power to put a failing bank into a proposed new "special resolution regime". The Governor, Mervyn King, told the British Bankers Association conference that...; Articles 2008-06-11
A billion reasons why this racket won't be buried: The Competition Commission is taking the payment protection insurance industry - or racket, as I prefer to call it - to task. In what was one of the most strongly worded statements I can remember from the commission, PPI was rightly condemned as overpriced and the industry...; Articles 2008-06-08
HOUSING Loans for new purchases slump by 40 per cent: Further evidence has emerged of the torpor in the mortgage market. The British Bankers' Association BBA has reported that the number of new loans taken out to purchase a property in April was down 39.4 per cent on the same month a year ago. This reflects the...; Articles 2008-06-01
International News: LIBOR LURCH The validity of the London Interbank Offered Rate LIBOR, to which hundreds of trillions of dollars in loans are pegged around the world, is being investigated by the British Bankers' Association after several banks complained about the way prices are set. Specifically, they charge that some banks...; Articles 2008-06-01
Libor lurch: The validity of the London Interbank Offered Rate LIBOR, to which hundreds of trillions of dollars in loans are pegged around the world, is being investigated by the British Bankers' Association after several banks complained about the way prices are set. Specifically, they charge that some banks were low-balling the...; Articles 2008-06-01
BBA to keep close eye on Libor rate: Business News IN BRIEF *The British Bankers' Association said yesterday that it would strengthen the oversight of its Libor rates after an annual review into the way it sets the global interest rate benchmark, which has become seriously distorted by the credit crisis. "The details will be...; Articles 2008-05-31
BBA fights to shore up confidence in Libor system: The decision of an anonymous group of 13 financial industry figures will get more attention than normal today when the British Bankers' Association announces changes designed to shore up confidence in its industry-standard inter-bank lending rate. The London inter-bank offered rate Libor, which is the benchmark for...; Articles 2008-05-30
Fears for house sales are fuelled by 39% fall in mortgage lending: The property market slump seems set to intensify after the major banks revealed that the number of new mortgages approved in April was the second lowest on record. Total home loan approvals came in at 38,704 last month, well below the six-month average and 39 per cent...; Articles 2008-05-28
Secret of the Skulls -- the story behind the latest "Indy" movie: CANNES, France AFP — A tale of archeological intrigue as captivating as any Indiana Jones plot is behind his new death-defying adventure in the "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", premiering at Cannes Sunday ahead of its release May 22. "We always find an artifact that is real, that...; Articles 2008-05-18
PICK OF THE WEEK: STAYING IN THIS WEEK'S RADIO The Chopin Experience today & Sun 7am Radio 3 This weekend, Radio 3 is transmitting every note ever written by Frederic Chopin. The sessions start at 7am with a recital of Berceuse Op 57 by Evgeny Kissin and Dong-Hyek...; Articles 2008-05-17

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