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Agreement on the EU package could run to December, senior lawyer told conference
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Investment banks, rating agencies and industry associations in Europe have blasted plans by the European Securities and Markets Authority to force non-E.U. credit rating agencies—and the ratings they give to financial instruments—to meet new, stringent requirements to be valid in the region.
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The International Monetary Fund says it supports giving European regulators the authority to cap loan-to-value ratios as a way of helping prevent housing-market bubbles.
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Wells Fargo, without admitting or denying the allegations, has agreed to pay $11.2 million to settle charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that Wachovia Capital Markets acted improperly in the sale of collateralized debt obligations linked to residential mortgages.
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Commerzbank says it will repay to the German government €14.3 billion ($20.51 billion) of the €16.3 billion ($23.38 billion) it received in rescue funds in 2009.
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Commerzbank says it will repay to the German government €14.3 billion ($20.51 billion) of the €16.3 billion ($23.38 billion) it received in rescue funds in 2009.
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Bankia, the new retail Spanish bank made up of Caja Madrid and six other savings banks, is creating a bad bank to hold toxic assets to make its listing later this year more attractive.
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Krishna Prasad, former London-based portfolio manager at BlackRock Solutions, has been hired by the Royal Bank of Scotland to head mortgage-backed strategy for Europe.
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The Spanish government may nationalize Caja Mediterráneo, the savings bank that appears to have been the reason a proposed merger with three other cajas fell apart last week.
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The European Union has approved a support package restructuring plan for the newly created ABN Amro Group, subject to “certain conditions designed to consolidate the viability of the group.”