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1 hr ago | The Daily Record

Fifth Third boosts quarterly dividend to 12 cents

Fifth Third Bancorp on Tuesday boosted its common stock cash dividend by 1 cent, or 9 percent, to 12 cents.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Fifth Third Bancorp

5 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

M&T Bank to fix anti-money laundering flaws, Fed says

M&T Bank Corp will put a comprehensive plan in place to fix problems with its anti-money laundering policies that had caused regulators to put a hold on its $3.7 billion bid to buy Hudson City Bancorp.

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Related Topix: Aspect Communications, MT Bank, Financial Services, Software, Hudson City Bancorp, Buffalo, NY, Ansonia, CT

5 hrs ago | Insider Monkey

Buy HSBC Holdings plc (HSBA) for the Best Banking Yield

Remember the good old days when investors held banking shares for their safe dividend income? The financial crash shattered that.

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Related Topix: HSBC Holdings, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Apple, Startups, Procter and Gamble, Household Products, Beverages, CocaCola

7 hrs ago | Forbes.com

David Tepper's Biggest-Winning Stocks

Appaloosa hedge fund manager David Tepper is known for outsized returns and good timing on his purchases, earning much of his wealth foreseeing and correctly playing the housing crisis and subsequent financial recovery.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Citigroup

9 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Death of Structured Notes Seen as Brazil Bond Tax Ditched

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega is making obsolete the world's most-popular market for structured notes tied to bonds.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Financial Services, Citigroup

13 hrs ago | EKathimerini

Deutsche Bahn subsidiary involved in Greece bribes-for-contracts scandal

A subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn , the German state-run transport group, is accused of paying up to 315,000 euros in bribes over the past ten years to win contracts in Greece, reports said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services

13 hrs ago | This is Wiltshire

Honda staff leave the plant after job losses are announced in January

IT MAY only be June but since the turn of the year more than 3,000 jobs have been lost in Swindon leaving a black hole in the jobs market.

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Related Topix: World News, Oxfordshire County, England, United Kingdom, Wiltshire County, England, Bank of New York, Financial Services

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Hartford Courant

Insight: Why Citi wants to rack up U.S. taxes

Over the past few years, Citigroup Inc has been grappling with an unusual problem - how to incur more U.S. taxes.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Citigroup, Best Buy, Retail, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ansonia, CT

MSN Money

British prosecutor to charge central Libor suspect: source

June 17 - Britain's top fraud prosecutor is poised to bring criminal charges against former Citigroup Inc and UBS AG trader Thomas Hayes, who is alleged to have been a central figure in a scam to rig global benchmark interest rates, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Citigroup

MarketWatch

Proof that Bernanke news conferences impact the market

With everyone in an uproar over the Fed's perceived communication problem , analysts at Deutsche Bank Securities are out with a note that shows Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's news conferences do indeed have an impact on the market.

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Related Topix: Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services

The Washington Post

Wall Street Lending Rises For Private Equity Rentals: Mortgages

Wall Street is ramping up financing to private-equity firms buying homes to rent, helping them accelerate purchases as competition increases and prices jump.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Silver Bay, NY

This is The West Country

Burnham pair's cycle challenge raises more than 1,000 for charity

Natasha Salter, from Stoddens Road, and Clare Kingston, from Lynton Road, travelled from Torquay to Burnham in a tandem bike ride to raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Nationwide Building Society

Business Journal

Bank of America gave bonuses for hitting foreclosure quotas, suit alleges

Former homeowners are seeking class-action status in an ongoing suit against Bank of America Corp., which stands accused of using gift cards, cash bonuses and other means to encourage employees to meet foreclosure quotas.

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Related Topix: Bank of America, Financial Services

Sunday Mail

ANZ, Macquarie Bank in rate probe

ANZ Banking Group and Macquarie Bank will have to set aside up to $S300 million each after being caught up in Singapore's rate-rigging scandal.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Macquarie Bank

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Bloomberg

Newcrest Facing Questions About June 7 Disclosure of Writedown

Newcrest Mining Ltd. , Australia 's largest gold producer, is facing scrutiny from regulators about its disclosure of a possible A$6 billion writedown after bullion slid into a bear market.

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Related Topix: Newcrest Mining, Mining, Insurance, Financial Services, Citigroup, Credit Suisse Group, Real Estate, Freeport

The Times-Tribune

More dads raising children on own

The 47-year-old West Scranton resident juggles the doctors appointments, dance recitals, track meets and concerts.

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Related Topix: Scranton, PA, Financial Services, Northeast Pennsylvania Financial, Family, Kids

Salon

Joseph Ellis: 1776, the summer America was born

Is it not a saying of Moses, "Who am I, that I should go in and out before this great People?" When I consider the great events which are passed, and those greater which are rapidly advancing, and that I have been instrumental in touching some springs, and turning some small Wheels, which have had and will have such Effects, I feel in Awe upon my ... (more)

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Abigail Adams National Bancorp, Philadelphia, PA

WKBW

Buffalo Man Arrested in Connection to Two Bank Robberies

The United States Attorney's Office announced 23-year-old Jason Berg was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with committing the robberies.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, MT Bank, Financial Services, Aspect Communications, Software

ABA Banking Journal

Banking Future: Day of the Tortoise?

Editor's Introduction: A research team at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis recently published a very interesting and instructive paper that seeks to answer the question of how community banks can make it, going forward.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

ABA Banking Journal

Citi and IBM to explore Watson applications for banking

Remember when IBM's supercomputer competed and won on Jeopardy! not too long ago? Now Citigroup has entered into an agreement with IBM to explore possible uses for IBM Watson that could help advance customer interactions and improve and simplify the banking experience.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Financial Services, Citigroup

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