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Under the pay offer, the paper is proposing to increase editorial salaries by 2% from 1 January and setting a new minimum salary for all "fully-qualified" staff journalists to £40,000. Production journalists and news editors are being given a £1,000 bonus...
Tags: FT Group, pay freeze, The Financial Times, United Kingdom, London, Minimum wage, Socioeconomics, Business Finance, Employment, Income, Labour law
October 12, 2009, 2:21 am Barclays is planning to spin off a 4 billion pound ($6.3 billion) portfolio of complex credit assets as it presses ahead with a process to clean up its balance sheet, The Financial Times said Monday.
Tags: billion pounds, Barclays, credit assets, balance sheet, The Financial Times, complex credit
The Financial Times has reported that this year, US banks stand to receive a record $38.5 billion in fees for customer overdrafts, with a considerable portion of the revenue coming from the most financially stretched consumers in the midst of the worst...
Tags: the financial times, us banks, $38.5 billion, financially stretched consumers, worst recession, 1930s, doubled, 2000, the federal reserve, policies, overdraft fees, consumer protection agency, congress, moebs services, $26, mike moebs, 130 million, widespread, low credit scores, risk, $50 billion, citigroup, bank of america, jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, 90 days, $33, $6, $35 penalty, $350, bofa, $25, $32, consumer federation of america, suntrust bank, $36, $39, citizens bank, nessa feddis, american bankers association, eric halperin, center for responsible lending
It just doesn't want to be in the advertising agency business. Razorfish, the creative agency formerly known as "Avenue A Razorfish," and which was once a part of aQuantive, for $6.6 billion in 2007. Now the division is up for sale, The Financial Times...
Pearson owns various businesses, including the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group. Educomp is an education services provider, while Bangalore-based TutorVista is an online tutoring company.
Tags: Pearson Education, Pearson PLC, Invest in Indian Education, Financial Times Group, The Financial Times, cent stakes
Potential bidders for Barclays Global Investors (BGI) could include BlackRock, a US money management firm, and Bank of New York Mellon. Barclays has already agreed to sell part of BGI's business, its iShares unit, for £3bn to CVC Capital Partners. Barclays...
Tags: Barclays Global Investors, Barclays Global Investments, Barclays PLC, asset manager, CVC Capital Partners Group, BGI, manager arm, fund manager, The Financial Times, money manager
Fiat chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said Opel would be an "ideal partner" and that a takeover was an "extraordinary opportunity"...GM faces potential bankruptcy in the US and has until 1 June to restructure. Restructuring Opel has said it needs...
Tags: Fiat-GM Europe, Fiat Auto, General Motors Corp., Fiat SpA, Fiat Group SpA, Chrysler LLC, The Financial Times, General Motors Europe, Sergio Marchionne, chief executive
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged the world economies to continue with stimulus packages till 2010 and avoid all kinds of protectionism, including in the financial sector, to battle the global economic slowdown. Singh said India's fiscal stimulus...
Tags: Reserve Bank of India, London, China, prime minister, Manmohan Singh, Doha Round, The Financial Times, Barack Obama, world leaders, minister manmohan
Swiss private banks are banning their top executives from travelling abroad, even to France and Germany, because of fears they will be detained as part of a global crackdown on bank secrecy, the Financial Times reported. The newspaper quoted an unnamed...
Tags: private banks, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Switzerland, travel abroad, global crackdown, banks secrecy, The Financial Times, Germany
The Financial Times is suing Blackstone accusing the US investment group of deliberately encouraging its staff to share a single login to the FT.com website in order to avoid paying for multiple subscriptions. The lawsuit, filed in New York, accuses Blackstone...
Tags: The Financial Times, Blackstone