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News and comment

Welcome to our on-line news and comment. This service is regularly updated to bring you news of important developments in financial matters.

The news stories on this page have been written and produced by a third party and neither nor its representatives can be held responsible for the accuracy of the content/information contained within these stories.

Citywire Investment News

• Ex-Cazenove partner convicted of insider dealing
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:35 GMT
  Malcolm Calvert has been found guilty on five counts of insider dealing and fined £56k
  

• FSA: four risks for advisers in run-up to RDR
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:44 GMT
  The Financial Services Authority has highlighted four areas, including quality of advice and governance, it says advisers should focus on during the upheaval of the next two years.
  

• High Court orders wind-up of Cru Investment Management
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:50 GMT
  The High Court has ordered the winding-up of Cru Investment Management, which marketed the six Arch Cru funds.
  

• Bramdean Alternatives proposes pure private equity remit
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:29 GMT
  The board of Bramdean Alternatives is proposing to change the trust's name to Aberdeen Private Equity and to give it a pure private equity fund investment remit
  

BBC Business News

• BA strike talks end without deal
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:31:47 GMT
  Talks between British Airways and Unite aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.
  

• Pompey axe 85 jobs to cut costs
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:12 GMT
  Administrators at Portsmouth FC start to make employees redundant, with 85 people losing their jobs.
  

• Banks face harsher stress tests
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:04:24 GMT
  Further stress-testing of UK banks will take place to ensure they can survive a 'double-dip' recession, regulators say.
  

• British Gas faces strike ballot
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:33 GMT
  British Gas workers are to vote in a strike ballot over allegations of bullying by management, and on changes to working conditions.
  

BBC News

• Body found in missing mother hunt
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:58 GMT
  Police searching for a Dundee mother-of-three who went missing two weeks ago believe they have found her body.
  

• EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:57:43 GMT
  EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
  

• Afghan anxieties
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:19 GMT
  Why the UK fears politics and force are out of synch
  

• BA strike talks end without deal
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:31:47 GMT
  Talks between BA and the Unite union aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.
  

Citywire News

• Five reasons why insurers are better investments than banks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:05 GMT
  Stronger than hoped for results from Standard Life have shown again why insurers are better investments than banks.
  

• Online banking fraud up by 14% amid wave of 'phishing' attacks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:33 GMT
  Online banking fraud rose by 14% to £60m in 2009, while card fraud dropped for the first time in three years.
  

• Ten years after the tech bubble burst, the sector now looks cheap
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:57 GMT
  Tech is still only trading on a multiple of 1.1x the market - despite an anticipated MA boom as the new cycle of technology kicks in.
  

• The economy is not yet out of danger, Gordon Brown warns
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:21 GMT
  You can trust me, prime minister says, as he unveils a pay freeze for doctors, dentists, and hospital consultants.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• Online banking fraud up by 14% amid wave of 'phishing' attacks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:33 GMT
  Online banking fraud rose by 14% to £60m in 2009, while card fraud dropped for the first time in three years.
  

• The economy is not yet out of danger, Gordon Brown warns
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:21 GMT
  You can trust me, prime minister says, as he unveils a pay freeze for doctors, dentists, and hospital consultants.
  

• Consumer groups attack delay to reform of PPI market
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:36:31 GMT
  Consumer bodies urge Financial Services Authority to push ahead with reform of PPI after it announces a further six week consultation period.
  

• Euro equities face long debt struggle in wake of Greek crisis
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:01:00 GMT
  Economists warn that austerity measures in the PIIGS will result in a protracted period of low growth.
  

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