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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Seeks to Issue Australian Ratings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Global ratings agency Fitch Ratings said it will apply for a wholesale financial services licence to issue ratings in Australia under the corporate watchdog's new ratings rules.The agency will apply for a licence to continue issuing ratings to wholesale clients in Australia, a spokeswoman said.Moves by the Australian Securities...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:03:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fifth Third -- Then and Now -- Reveals the Banking Landscape That Time Forgot]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's step into our way-back machine and travel to a distant, more innocent time in the history of American finance:  Banking's been around since the Italians created it 600 or 700 years ago, and basically it is not very complicated.... You give us your money and trust it to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:47:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Slaps Hands of Moody's, S&P, Fitch, But Sidesteps Real Change]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SEC is slapping the hands of credit ratings agencies whose lax performance is said to have contributed mightily to the financial meltdown.    While avoiding more significant regulatory changes for later, the SEC will prohibit ratings agencies from rating products they helped structure, require more detailed reports...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:11:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Greenspan Speaks, Goldman Cuts, Hedge Fund Woes And More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Fed Chairman Greenspan speaks -- Appearing before a House committee investigating the nation's financial crisis, Alan Greenspan said the economy is "in the midst of a once-in-a century credit tsunami" but expressed confidence the $700 billion federal bailout will ease the storm. Greenspan added that he was "shocked" the...]]></description>
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