Groups call Italy to ease rules on banks
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The campaign is expected to come to a head early next year when the introduction of new international accounting standards will require shareholders to inject fresh capital into many Italian banks.
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At a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday, legislators and consumer advocates prodded federal banking regulators to move more quickly to put restrictions on non-traditional mortgage lending, because, they said, the new kinds of mortgages may place borrowers and lenders at financial risk.
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Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce &quot;unacceptable&quot; Tuesday and urged the Italian government to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline.
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Italy's government on Wednesday night raised the prospect of co-ordinated central bank intervention to stabilise the euro, highlighting European Union nervousness about the impact of its rise against the dollar on the eurozone's economic recovery.
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China&#39;s central bank has said that a decision to end a cap on lending rates is part of a plan to bring its banks more in line with international standards and give them greater freedom to lend.
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Tougher funding standards are needed to prevent a repeat of money market turmoil, the FSA says.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called upon the European Central Bank on Wednesday to intervene to curb the rising price of the euro against the dollar.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Business leaders appealed for more leadership from U.S. and other central banks to head off an economic downturn on Wednesday, with some accusing policy makers of losing their grip and their nerve.
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Italy's soccer industry urged government and sporting authorities meeting on Monday to lift a ban on soccer matches as the nation paused for the funeral of a policeman killed by rioting fans.
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SILVIO Berlusconi has reluctantly backed down in the dispute over senior European Union positions that has paralysed the EU, but is demanding face-saving sacrifices by other nations to ease his embarrassment.
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Heightened scrutiny of banking transactions by the United States since the September 11 attacks has led European and Canadian banks to curtail dealings with Cuba, bankers and businesses say.
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A group of MPs are calling for the Bank of England to be more open about the way it sets interest rates.
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BRUSSELS The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to water down the rules that govern maximum working hours for employees, bowing to pressure from business and from Eastern European members of the EU seeking to catch up with their richer western
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European insurance groups such asAllianzAxaare set to benefit from a radical overhaul of European Union regulation that will place them under the scrutiny of a single &quot;group supervisor&quot; and potentially free up some of their capital.
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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi  called on Thursday for a Group of Eight (G8) meeting so that  the rich nations club could discuss their response to Asia's  tsunami disaster which has killed around 120,000 people.
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New reforms aim to avert another Rock-style crisis as consumers and firms face worsening of credit supply
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued special guidance Tuesday urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages.