Investments

Resolution in talks with AXA for life unit

Investments August 22nd, 2010

Resolution, the assurance buyout vehicle, detailed its plans today to acquire the majority of AXA’s &beat;2.75 billion life assurance division.
The vehicle, run by Clive Cowdery, related that it would fund the surprise takeover offer for the UK safety, annuities and group pensions businesses with a pre-emptive £2 billion rights sending out, £500 million deferred notes [...]

Row over bank card and credit card charges

Investments August 22nd, 2010

Banks are construction hundreds of millions of pounds a year and pushing up prices put ~ the high street by levying “unjustifiably high” fees forward credit and debit card sales, retailers will say today.
New figures from the British Retail Consortium indicate that the average credit card transaction costs retailers 34p, compared with 8½p for a [...]

Virgin ready for shoot-out with internet gaming giants

Investments August 21st, 2010

With titles similar as Command and Conquer and Resident Evil, Virgin was regarded similar to one of the cooler geeks in computer games during the 1990s.
Sir Richard Branson sold revealed in 1999 but was due to relaunch Virgin into the $12 billion games habitual devotion to labor last night at the E3 games expo in [...]

FSA calls Sir Fred Goodwin to account over RBS unravelling

Investments August 21st, 2010

Sir Fred Goodwin has been summoned ~ the agency of the Financial Services Authority to answer questions about Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment in the run up to its near-collapse in October 2008.
The bank’s former principal executive is understood to have struck a deal to meet FSA investigators at the function of his lawyers rather [...]

OBR slashes economic growth forecasts

Investments August 20th, 2010

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UK economic growth forecasts have been slashed, as the injure wreaked by the recession on long-term growth were assessed independently instead of the first time.
One week before the Government’s pressing necessity Budget, the newly formed Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the [...]

Tesco chairman stays on to smooth Sir Terry Leahy transition

Investments August 20th, 2010

DAVID REID has pledged to stay up~ as chairman of Tesco for at least another 18 months to allege boardroom stability at Britain’s biggest retailer, insiders say.
Sir Terry Leahy, the far-seeing-serving chief executive, said last week that he would step into disgrace next year. It is thought that Reid, 63, had been allowing for stepping [...]