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ByLibya confidential
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Hermès, the luxury French fashion house, has exchanged contracts to buy the Bond Street shop that Asprey occupies for £75m…
ByTimes: RBS to sell AM division, not Coutts
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the taxpayer-backed bank, is selling off part of its asset management division in an attempt…
ByDid You Hear the One About the Ex-Banker?
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ByWBrief: Pictet to launch precious metals fund
Pictet Funds, part of Pictet & Cie, the Swiss private bank, said it will launch a precious metals fund on…
ByOECD: Swiss secrecy melting away
Switzerland has signed a protocol to its tax treaty with the United States that incorporates the internationally agreed tax information…
ByMy heart goes out to you
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ByBloomberg: Art Moscow tries to tempt back buyers
Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) — Russia’s biggest contemporary-art fair opens tonight, trying to lure billionaire collectors after a year in which…
ByAwards address
Last year, a thousand BlackBerries beeped at once and a thousand faces fell as news arrived that Congress had rejected…
ByWealthy confident about becoming wealthier
The Futurewealth Report from Scorpio Partnership shows that the wealthy expect 2010 to be a year of growth, but also…
ByA terrorist's life assurance
His elimination by Special Forces demonstrates that participation in a terrorist organization is guaranteed to severely limit an individual’s life…
ByPardoning Alan Turing
The proposition that more than half a century later an administration should apologise for the past conduct seems illogical. Prime…
ByFT: Banking consolidation to continue with sell-offs
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ByWBrief: SG PB to move more into UHNW territory
SG Private Banking is focusing its efforts on the upper range of clients, according to the organisation’s chief executive, Daniel…
ByGuardian: Lloyds finds low-tax route through China
The tax authorities are investigating Lloyds Banking Group after evidence emerged that the bank, kept alive by £17bn of taxpayers’…
ByWBrief: Swiss stock exchange investigating UBS
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