Financial sector
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Smartphone-driven taxi service six times larger than a year ago but has growing pains, says CEO
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2014 forecast cut to 0.8% from the 0.9% predicted three months ago as bank says it will reassess policy measures next year
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Planned shareholder resolution is a ‘vital opportunity to influence companies’ climate change strategy’, says investment chief
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Star fund manager is among investors in new service which aims to launch without branches in second half of 2015
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Plans to permit a range of businesses to operate as payment banks could revitalise the mobile money industry
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World Bank leader Jim Yong Kim is behaving like “the 1%” say bank staff, amid rising anger over the restructuring reforms
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Islamic finance is widely misunderstood but its core principles could provide a blueprint for a sustainable global economy
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PMI, a good indicator of growth, sinks to 51.1 from October’s 52.1 leading to warnings of renewed contraction in new year
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All you need to know about Treasury plans to finally pay off bonds that stretch back to the Battle of Waterloo and the South Sea Bubble
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Draft legislation to oblige sharing of corporation tax deals, as Germany, France and Italy pressure Juncker over Luxembourg
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Tracey McDermott says individuals and firms in the banking sector should consider the impact of their work on society
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The Co-op reported a loss of £76m for the first six months of 2014 and had to raise £1.9bn of capital in the last 18 months
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Questions over whether Labour’s plans would have suffered from eurozone crisis and oil prices in same way – but Alastair Darling also expected private investment return
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Andrew Tyrie attacks bank for response to plans that could see managers jailed for up to seven years over reckless misconduct
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Standard & Poor’s says bank is going through times but it still among world’s most creditworthy commercial lenders
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Robert Jenkins: Despite scandal after scandal in the financial sector, the absence of personal accountability persists
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HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate says SFO has progressed but many problems too entrenched to solve quickly
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Mayor urges financial technology sector to find solution to problem of growing number of online shopping delivery vans
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Public accounts committee will demand intricate details from Kevin Nicholson about tax avoiding schemes in Grand Duchy
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More than 150 financial institutions continue to invest despite worldwide ban since 2008
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Bob Diamond, who set up Atlas Merchant Capital to invest in financial firms, sees opportunities as banks shrink
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Investors should support change and Banking Standards Review Council should report to Treasury, says thinktank
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Arlette Ricci accused of hiding money from France’s tax authorities in test case related to the HSBC tax-avoidance scandal
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Stewarts Law wants to establish whether shareholders are entitled to compensation from Britain’s biggest retailer
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The American economy grew faster than first estimated, with GDP rising at an annual pace of 3.9% in the July-September quarter
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Move suggests authorities are closer to filing criminal charges in long-running investigation into whether banks have been colluding to move currency rates
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Financial Conduct Authority to study fairness and transparency of £150bn-a-year market affecting 30m UK cardholders
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Deloitte to look into 20 October incident in which home buyers and sellers were unable to complete transactions
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All the latest business and economics news, as the International Labour Organisation issues a new report on the Greek jobless crisis.
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Polish ambassador says David Cameron’s welfare proposals are unlikely to win backing from EU leaders
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2014’s running total of fines by the City regulator boosted by the £1.1bn levied on banks for manipulating foreign exchange markets
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Governments are not flush enough to contemplate a second wave of bailouts, which leaves the problem of too ‘big to fail’ unsolved, writes Larry Elliott
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Whistleblowers speak out because they feel they have to, often at great personal cost. But years later, do they think it was worth it? Andrew Smith finds out
Could the Murray financial inquiry actually deliver for battlers? The interim report gives me hope