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DPJ Lawmakers Urge Kan to Focus on Growth, Push Bank of Japan

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers from Japan?s ruling party said they will press Prime Minister Naoto Kan to shift the focus of his economic policy to growth from fiscal restraint and urge the central bank to do more to tackle deflation. A group of
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Macatawa Bank Swings To Profit In Q2

Macatawa Bank Corp. (MCBC) reported second quarter net income available to common shares of $1.7 million or $0.10 per share, compared to a net loss available to common shares of $31.3 million or $1.82 per share in the last year quarter.The provision for
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South Korea to choose 3 investment banks to sell Woori

Customer uses her mobile phone at a branch office of Woori Bank in Seoul July 20, 2010. South Korea said it planned to pick one foreign and two local investment banks to manage the 6.7 trillion won ($5.65 billion) sale of Woori Financial Holdings.
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UPDATE 1-S.Korea to choose 3 investment banks to sell Woori

*Woori to be sold in conjunction with smaller banks *Gov't hopes sale will garner over $6 bln SEOUL, July 30 (Reuters) - South Korea said Friday it planned to pick one foreign and two local investment banks to manage the 6.7 trillion won ($5.65 billion)
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PNC collection effort highlights poor c...

The way PNC Bank is trying to collect more than $13 million in supposedly defaulted loans to the owner of the 500 North Broadway building highlights the dreary state of the commercial real estate market. Instead of foreclosing on the office building in
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Credit Suisse reiterates ?outperform? rating on Visa

Credit Suisse reiterated Outperform rating on Visa Inc., the world's largest payments processing network, with a price target of $110, a day after the company?s better-than-expected third quarter earnings. Visa reported fiscal third quarter EPS of
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No. 25-ranked Laredo Petroleum arranges two new bank credit facilities

TULSA, OKLAHOMA ? Privately held oil and gas company Laredo Petroleum Inc. has arranged two new bank credit facilities with Bank of America and Wells Fargo Energy Capital. In the July issue of Oil & Gas Financial Journal, the company ranked No. 25
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Health service workers should not bear responsibility for failures in the banking system

Commenting on the publication of the Independent Budget Review today (Thursday 29 July 2010), the BMA in Scotland welcomed calls for strong political leadership during times of financial pressure, but warned that any future changes to the NHS or pay and
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Goldman Research Group Morning Report: Ford, SiriusXM, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc., Ambac Financial, Intel and Sprint Nextel

- 08:45 Article Tools Smaller| Larger Text Story Tools DOVER (Marketwire) - GoldmanResearchGroup.com is a premier source for microcap research - providing a wide range of due diligence and investment insight on stocks all over the market.
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South Korea to choose 3 investment banks to sell Woori

SEOUL, July 30 - South Korea said Friday it planned to pick one foreign and two local investment banks to manage the 6.7 trillion won sale of Woori Financial Holdings 053000.KS. Woori, the country's third-largest financial group by market value, will be
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RPT-Indonesia's Bank Rakyat H1 net profit up 23 pct

JAKARTA, July 29 - PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia BBRI.JK, Indonesia's number two lender, on Thursday reported a 23 percent jump in first-half 2010 profit as strong domestic demand boosted loan growth, a statement seen by Reuters showed. BRI, a state-owned
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Central bank set to auction NT$100 billion in NCDs

9:30 am TWN, CNATAIPEI -- Taiwan's central bank announced yesterday that it will auction NT$100-billion-worth (US$3.12-billion-worth) of 364-day negotiable certificates of deposit (NCDs) in August, making it the fifth consecutive month it has conducted
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Without admitting or denying allegations, Citi agrees to SEC penalty

Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay a US$75 million-penalty for misleading the market about its exposure to the subprime real estate market back in 2007. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that between July 20, 2007 and November 4, 2007,
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JPMorgan Chase heads to Saudi Arabia

It obtained a full commercial banking licence in 2005 and is now the only US financial firm to hold one Washington Post New York: JPMorgan Chase plans to become the first US bank to open a full-service commercial branch in Saudi Arabia this year, six
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Banco Santander Chile Announces Second Quarter and First Half 2010 Earnings

(PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX News Network) -- Banco Santander Chile (NYSE: SAN; SSE: Bsantander) announced today its unaudited results for the second quarter and first half of 2010. These results are reported on a consolidated basis in accordance with
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South Korea to choose 3 investment banks to sell Woori

SEOUL, July 30 (Reuters) - South Korea said Friday it planned to pick one foreign and two local investment banks to manage the 6.7 trillion won ($5.65 billion) sale of Woori Financial Holdings <053000.KS>.
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RPT-Indonesia's Bank Rakyat H1 net profit up 23 pct

Reuters - 21 minutes ago JAKARTA, July 29 - PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia , Indonesia's number two lender, on Thursday reported a 23 percent jump in first-half 2010 profit as strong domestic demand boosted loan growth, a statement seen by Reuters showed. BRI,
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Deutsche Bank Structuring Team Departs

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Zions, Deutsche Bank In Trust-Preferred CDO Swap Deal

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Crédit Agricole Expands Credit/Debt Markets Team

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Banks seek customers' help to stop online thieves

For generations, U.S. consumers have relied on banks to bear the primary responsibility for keeping their hard-earned cash deposits out of the hands of thieves. Now, banks want consumers to share the load. About 80% of U.S. households have come to do
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Small losses, but banks climb 1.5%

Teva falls another 4%, down 12.5% for the week Stocks were down slightly to end the trading week on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange yesterday. The blue-chip TA-25 index eased 0.2% to close at 1,118 points, and the broader TA-100 lost 0.3% to end the day at
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30pc premium put on ICBC (Asia) buy

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398) may have to offer a premium of up to 30 percent to lure ICBC (Asia) (0349) shareholders to accept its privatization plan, analysts warned yesterday. The offer could be as much as HK$11.18 billion based on
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BSP urged to ease vital bank policy

Philippine Daily Inquirer Filed Under: Banking, Loan Markets A GROUP of bankers has urged the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to relax the single borrower?s limit (SBL), particularly by allowing a bank to freely earmark another 10 percent of its loanable
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Singapore c.bank sees rising prices, moderating growth

SINGAPORE - Singapore's economic growth will moderate in the second half of 2010 while prices will rise faster, the central bank said on Thursday, while making clear it remained comfortable with its current monetary policy. The Monetary Authority of
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LEAD) Kookmin Bank head vows to cut costs, boost competitiveness

( (ATTN: ADDS more comments in para 4, 8) SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- The new chief of Kookmin Bank, South Korea's top lender, pledged Thursday to boost its competitiveness and to enhance the bank's efficiency by cutting costs. Min Byong-duk, former vice
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Hong Kong slides lower on banks, but Chalco up

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong shares slid lower early Friday as profit-taking pressure mounted after the market rose in the previous eight straight sessions. Banks paced the fall after an overnight drop on Wall Street, but shares of Aluminum Corp.
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South Korea to choose 3 investment banks to sell Woori

SEOUL, July 30 (Reuters) - South Korea said Friday it planned to pick one foreign and two local investment banks to manage the 6.7 trillion won ($5.65 billion) sale of Woori Financial Holdings .
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RPT-Indonesia's Bank Rakyat H1 net profit up 23 pct

(Repeats story first published on July 29 without changes) BRI, a state-owned lender focusing on small to medium-sized businesses, earned 4.32 trillion rupiah ($480 million) in the first half. That compared with a net profit of 3.52 trillion rupiah in
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Mizuho Securities <8606.T>-1qtr group results

July 30 (Reuters) - MIZUHO SECURITIES CO LTD CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (in billions of yen unless specified) 3 months ended 3 months ended Jun 30, 2010 Jun 30, 2009 LATEST YEAR-AGO RESULTS RESULTS Revenues 71.17 95.33 (-25.3 pct) Operating loss
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