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“A lot of these technology changes require a complete restructuring of a bank's operating systems, so it's a massive piece of work, he points out.”
“helping to reduce unemployment from 20%.”
“Madrid's benchmark stock index rose by two points soon after the meeting.”
“a 15bn-euro package of austerity measures passed by parliament last month.”
“Most recently, Transport Minister Norman Baker said "in light of a tough spending review" funding for the £130m Kingskerswell bypass could not be guaranteed.”
“Mr Worster receives a total of £30,000 for his triumph in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards.”
“Independent experts have said the book, even in its damaged state, is worth about £1m.”
“The company has agreed to put aside $20bn (£13.5bn) to compensate victims of the oil spill - and has vowed to help with the clean-up.”
“The company has agreed to put aside $20bn (£13.5bn) to compensate victims of the oil spill”
“On Friday, rating agency Moody's downgraded BP's credit rating by three notches”
“over three years £405,000 went out of Mrs Devas' bank account.”
“In 2001, a civil case heard that Mrs Devas had investments of £665,000 and owned a three-bedroom house in Cambridge worth £350,000.”
“But at the time of her death, she had capital wealth of just £26,000.”
“The report also revealed that efficiency savings have already been made to public expenditure including £839m efficiency saving in 2008/09 - £300m over the target.”
“Details of Scottish government spending on items over £25,000 have been released for the first time. The report, which covers April 2010, itemised 1,367 transactions totalling £2.6bn.”
“It said it aims to defeat deflation by April 2011, but revealed few details on how it would achieve this.”
“The government also said it would cut corporate tax from 40% to nearer 25%.”
“Earlier this week, Japan's central bank announced plans for up to 3 trillion yen (£22bn; $33bn) in loans to spur economic growth.”
“Japan's growth averaged just 1.3% a year before the recession brought on by the financial crisis.”
“Parents said lawyers to implement an equity scheme would cost about £1m.”
“We have had £170,000 in pledges from interested investors but we will now have to give that back as we can't offer them an equity stake in the school due to time and cost restraints.”
“We have £5,000 in donations and a further £24,000 in pledged donations but we need about £2.5m by early next week.”
“Terra Firma bought EMI for £4bn ($5.9bn) at the peak of the last economic boom, and has since struggled to meet the terms of its loan agreement with US bank Citigroup.”
“Last month, Terra Firma promised to inject more than £100m into EMI to prevent Citigroup from taking control of the record company.”
“Terra Firma owes Citigroup an estimated £3.2bn.”
“William Lyttle, nicknamed "mole man", failed to pay Hackney Council £293,000 for repairs to the house in Mortimer Road, despite a court order. The council then spent £115,000 on maintenance and putting him up in a hotel for three years.”
“Further maintenance has cost the council £70,000 since 2008.”
“Following his eviction the pensioner was put up in a hotel for three years while the council found accommodation for him. The hotel stay cost the council £45,000.”
“The 20-room house could be worth £1m after renovation”
“As initial start-up funding, the government is allocating £50m with an unspecified larger amount to follow, but Mr Gove said there was no way of telling how this might translate into school numbers.”
“Instead of big, bright, hi-tech new schools, where a single academy could cost £25m, these free schools could be smaller and thriftier arrangements.”
“He also promised that this will not mean cutting per pupil spending - and it will not mean taking resources from existing schools.”
“an £80m loan to engineering firm Sheffield Forgemasters”
“a £13m redevelopment of the former Outokumpu steelworks site”
“Some £12m of funding for the Sevenstone retail development was also suspended.”
“On Thursday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander announced that the government had cancelled 12 projects, totalling £2bn, which had been agreed by the previous Labour administration since the start of 2010.”
“He told MPs the cuts were necessary to help tackle the nation's budget deficit. On Thursday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander announced that the government had cancelled 12 projects, totalling £2bn, which had been agreed by …”
“[In the past] stimulus was too quickly withdrawn and resulted in renewed hardships and recession”
“But Mr Obama said the US would still aim to halve is own deficit by 2013”
“The US budget deficit would be cut to 3% of GDP by 2015”
“who last year approved £1m in funding for new credit unions across Wales.”
“The Wrexham branch had a £146,000 grant to buy and refit larger premises.”
“A £5bn plan to create a new town centre in north-west London has been given the go-ahead after the government announced it will not 'call in' the scheme.”
“Based on today's number of wind farms, £860,000 would be generated for those wards with projects and £575,000 for the benefit of the rest of the council area.”
“The government could save millions each year simply by doing transactions online rather than on paper or over the phone.”
“while understanding the attraction in keeping the tolls because they provided £42m in revenue to the government”
“It actually restricts and holds back Dartford, and therefore consequently costs the whole area a lot more than the £42m”
“The court was told that Mackay handed over between £4,000 and £5,000 of his own money to the women after the pair struck up a relationship online.”
“However, when his own money ran out, she then persuaded Mackay to go to Cash Converters in Edinburgh and process £25,635 which she had conned out of other individuals who thought they were giving to charity.”
“The £800m spent on education is due to reach at least £1bn in 2010-11.”
“£900,000 budget cut”
“It has been notified by the Home Office of a £900,000 cut in its grant funding and warned balancing the budget would be extremely difficult.”
“Sponsorship and a collection on Church Street, Liverpool, has raised £10,000.”
“The company reported a pre-tax loss of £6.5m, having faced turbulence in its development of offshore wind projects.”
“Its share price on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) fell sharply on the news.”
“The refurbishment of the pier and construction of a nearby surf reef were part of an £11m regeneration project to revive Boscombe seafront.”
“Russia will scrap capital gains tax on long-term direct investment from 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev has said.”
“However, it was hit hard by the global economic crisis, and in 2009 the economy shrank by 7.9%.”
“The economy is forecast to return to growth this year, expanding by about 4%.”
“Its oil revenues fund, which has been financing the deficit, is expected to end next year”
“"Such an idea should be implemented within a year," he said.”
“While Russian stocks may be undervalued, Russia is not seeking investors interested in quick and easy money.”
“Moody's downgraded BP's creditworthiness by three notches”
“downgraded BP to A2 from Aa2”
“Earlier this week, the two other major international credit ratings agencies, Fitch and Standard & Poor's, also downgraded BP”
“BP has agreed to put aside $20bn (£13.5bn) to compensate victims of the oil spill”
“BP's payments into the fund were 'managable', but warned that the full costs of the oil spill would have a negative impact on the company's cash flow for 'a number of years'”
“BP shares fell 0.6% on Friday, after climbing almost 7% a day earlier”
“cash flow 'expected to exceed $30bn in 2010 before taking into consideration costs related to the Deepwater Horizon spill'”
“BP has agreed to pay $5bn into the compensation fund this year, followed by quarterly payments of $1.25bn until the total $20bn is paid”
“BP has also said it will be selling about $10bn worth of 'non-core' assets to raise cash”
“BP's stake in TNK-BP is worth about $16-$18bn”
“If BP decides to sell its [stake in TNK], it will have to do so with a discount to find a buyer faster”
“BP also owns about 1% of the Russian state-run company Rosneft, which is worth another $900m”
“Rumours about a possible sell-off caused Rosneft's share price to fall by 6% on Thursday”
“BP made a profit last year of $14bn, down from $25bn a year earlier”
“Standard Chartered warned last week that the total cost to the company, including legal costs, could top $40bn”
“£40,000 compensation”
“has a budget deficit of 11%”
“one in five workers is unemployed”
“Trading standards officers said the scammers issued cheques for 2,645 euros (about £2,200) before asking the recipients to transfer the money, less 264 euros (£220), to an address in Malaysia.”
“Eighty-six per cent of my budget is spent on people and if we want to make significant savings in policing there is only one way of doing it - which is to reduce the size of the workforce.”
“the amount lent in new home loans rose by 7% in May from the previous month to £11.3bn.”
“up 10% from a year ago”
“LTV ratios of over 75%”
“prices had risen by 10% in the past year”
“Kent Police is facing £20m of cuts over the next three years, including an extra £2.7m this year.”
“However, due to the number of savings and efficiencies that must be made, the authority, who hold the purse strings, has obviously got to do more to ensure the force can work with what funding we have”
“We have already started this process because we knew six months ago that there were likely to be more cuts in the public sector.”
“RBS is selling the unit and its 318 branches after the European Commission ruled last year that it must dispose of the business as a condition of the bank being bailed out by the UK government.”
“Santander is understood to have offered considerably less than £2bn.”
“Under the agreement RBS reached with the European Commission on the disposal of certain of its businesses, RBS has another three and half years to complete the sale of the branches.”
“Santander said it was not sure when the tender process would end. Santander is understood to have offered considerably less than £2bn.”
“There is a pretty high probability that the board of RBS will conclude that Santander is not offering enough and will therefore withdraw the branches from sale, in the hope that market conditions for the auction of such assets improve in a…”
“Instead, it has introduced measures such as limits on bank lending. The Chinese government has been concerned about its economy overheating, with food and property prices in particular increasing rapidly. So far, the government has not rai…”
“The World Bank estimates that China's economy will grow by 9.5% this year and by 8.5% in 2011.”
“The work, which is part of a £22m station revamp, will provide Newport with a 'landmark to be proud of', according to Mike Gallop, principal programme sponsor at Network Rail.”
“The work, which is part of a £22m station revamp...”
“UK capital gains tax is currently set at a flat rate of 18%, but the coalition government has indicated that it wants to bring it more in line with the various income tax levels.”
“borrow £55m”
