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RBS to subsume ABN Amro wholesale brand
Royal Bank of Scotland, which teamed up with Benelux bancassurer Fortis and Spain’s Santander to buy Dutch bank ABN Amro for €70 billion in October, will do away with the ABN Amro brand in the wholesale banking arena. The merged division will be run in…
Dysfunctional market
US natural gas for less than $1.00 is a sign of dysfunctional markets saysDaven Voorhies of Logical Information Machines
The tide is high
Soaring dry freight prices due to the booming trade in global commoditieshave encouraged a wealth of new participants into the freight market. Buthow long can the party last? Oliver Holtaway investigates
Markit group buys up iTraxx/CDX index family
The London-based data provider signs a deal to buy the credit derivatives indices from the bank consortia that previously owned and managed them
MPs slam rating agencies over Northern Rock
Representatives from the three main rating agencies go before a House of Commons committee to answer for their supposed failings in warning investors of trouble at the embattled UK lender