Standard Life members poised to approve flotation
Standard Life's members are today expected to approve its planned £5bn summer flotation - a move that will trigger windfall payments averaging £1,700 to 2.4 m...
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Halifax points the finger at customers
Halifax this week admitted a "systems failure" resulted in the bank writing to customers to falsely claim they had missed credit card payments and their card limits wer...
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Desmond pension move cuts tax bill
Express publisher Northern and Shell paid £31m into owner Richard Desmond's pension pot last year as a way of reducing taxes ahead of a government clampdown in 2006....
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Brown urged to alter tax credits
Gordon Brown was under pressure last night to switch the management of his tax credit system away from the Inland Revenue and back to the Benefits Agency after the Treasu...
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Another $17m adrift at Hollinger
Unauthorised payments to Lord Black and former directors of Hollinger International have caused the owner of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Chicago Sun Times and Jerusal...
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How taxman ignored 10,000 claims
An investigation by Jobs & Money has revealed that managers in one of the country's biggest tax offices resorted to dumping thousands of unread letters in a desperate...
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Saddam funds fail to buy Gaza hearts
Sheik Yassim Jamasi said he was grateful for the $25,000 cheque he received from Saddam Hussein, but it did not change his attitude towards the Iraqi president.
Along w...
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Musharraf appeals against Islamic banking
After years of legal wrangles, Pakistan's supreme court last year ordered the government to switch to an Islamic banking system. At the last minute Islamabad convince...
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BT turnaround cheers City
BT yesterday cheered investors by resuming dividend payments after an 18-month hiatus and by showing signs of a turnaround after a year in which it demerged wireless busi...
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Banks spinning a wider world web
Banking took another step into the future this week when Egg and Lloyds TSB launched separate services allowing people to make completely online payments to anyone with a...
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