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ABN Amro higher core profit crushed by charges

19.11.10
ABN Amro reports a jump in underlying net profit thanks to higher interest income, lower charges and a gain on its debt buy-back... more

ABN Amro pushed into loss by charges and asset sales

26.08.10
Nationalised Dutch bank ABN Amro posts a first-half loss of nearly €1 billion as charges and forced asset sales wipe out underlying profits... more

City Spy: Peter Mandelson’s just mad about the Foy

21.07.10
Lord Mandelson doesn't want to do a Blair and earn bucketloads of cash - just a place of his own and some battered old furniture... more

UK manufacturing grows at fastest pace in 15 years

01.02.10
Hopes that Britain is pulling out of recession are aided as manufacturing grows at the fastest pace for 15 years... more

Tesco agrees insurance joint venture with Fortis

11.09.09
Tesco is to go ahead with its motor and household insurance joint venture with Fortis despite doubts over the future of the Dutch group.... more

Girl, 17, held for Paris bank raid

20.08.09
An audacious raid on a Paris bank by a gang led by a blonde, gun-toting teenage girl was foiled when her henchmen 'mucked things up', French police said... more

Allotments owner 'wants to sell protected site for flats'

21.07.09
Group of allotment holders claim there are plans to sell their site to developers, even though it has been cultivated by local people for nearly a century... more

Amlin breaks into Europe with a £300m Dutch deal

03.06.09
Hurricane, boating and bloodstock insurer Amlin is expanding into Europe with a £300 million takeover ... more

Old Mutual pays to ditch China deal

27.05.09
Old Mutual, the London-based insurer, is paying a �45 million (£39 million) break fee to walk away from a �165 million deal to buy a stake in Chinese fund manager ABN Amro Teda Fund Management ... more

Printing more cash is high on Bank agenda

20.05.09
The Bank of England looked ready to step up the fight against recession and pump even more money into the economy ... more

£279m blow for Fortis as BNP deal is suspended

24.12.08
Banking: Fortis, the Benelux financial services group brought to its knees by the credit crunch, has lost another €295 million in currency deals in little more than a fortnight... more

Pressure builds for Bank Rate to be cut by a point

27.10.08
Credit crisis: Bank of England urged to slash interest rates by a full percentage point as central bankers around the world face mounting pressure to tackle the global recession... more

Lavish Christmas parties over for City workers hit by credit crunch

22.10.08
City companies being hit by the collapse of world markets are cutting costs by cancelling office Christmas parties, the Standard can reveal... more

Fixing this crisis is too big for one government

07.10.08
The best bet for saving our ailing banks is for governments to buy into them. But it will also require action at a truly international level... more

Financial upheavals trigger wave of selling

06.10.08
Banking: Shares in banks across the world tumbled as fear over the future of the financial system took hold... more

Piece by piece is best for now

02.10.08
One of the more bizarre suggestions I have heard this week was that we are not in a systemic crisis. It used to be only at weekends that banks collapsed, were nationalised or forced into mergers but now it is almost a daily occurrence... more

Biffo’s bold move boggles the bankers

01.10.08
The scale of the Irish deal is utterly mind-boggling, totalling about €97,560 (£77,150) per head of the population... more

When this is over, what kind of world will be left?

30.09.08
Following the failure yesterday of the US rescue plan, Wall Street plunged, dragging everyone else with it. When the dust settles, we may find life has changed for good... more

Second Belgian lender hit as contagion fears reach India

30.09.08
Credit crisis contagion continued to spread around the world as the Belgian and French governments backed a second bailout in two days and the Indian central bank moved to support a major lender... more

The worldwide domino effect

29.09.08
Credit Crunch: The international banking crisis has swept across the continent claiming its first major victims in the Eurozone... more

Banking is still in a fog but the weaklings are now plain to see

29.09.08
There was a predictability about the demise of Bradford & Bingley, but the problems that surfaced at ­Fortis, Belgium's largest bank, are of an altogether different scale... more

City braced for meltdown

29.09.08
The City is bracing itself for further pain after watching Asian markets plunge to record lows overnight... more

Sterling gets a pounding from dollar

29.09.08
The pound crashed more against the dollar than at any time since 1993 today as investors ditched sterling... more

Sarkozy calls crisis meeting with top banks

29.09.08
French president Nicol Sarkozy has called a crisis meeting with the heads of the country's top banks and insurance companies... more

RBS opens new Asia sale talks

23.07.08
Royal Bank of Scotland has switched its attention to Commonwealth Bank of Australia in its search for a buyer for ABN Amro's investment banking and corporate finance business in Asia... more

RBS set to sell Aussie assets after writedowns hit funds

11.07.08
After a raft of writedowns, Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) is in talks with National Australia Bank (NAB) to sell Australasian assets... more

Ping An Belgian deal raises fears

27.06.08
HSBC's Chinese insurer Ping An has been hit by worries that a deal to buy into Belgian banking group Fortis will erode its capital base... more

A big question for British Land

19.05.08
It is hard to be optimistic about commercial property, given what is happening to the economy... more

Ping An in £1.7bn Fortis deal

20.03.08
Ping An buying half of Fortis's asset-management unit for £1.7 billion ... more


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