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Conyers Dill & Pearman has been named one of the world's best offshore law firms by legal rating agency Chambers & Partners.
In the annual Chambers Global Guide, which was released last week, Conyers was also once again named as the best corporate la...
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Appleby announced yesterday that five new partners have joined the firm.
All the new recruits have been hired from rival offshore specialists and will be based in Appleby offices outside Bermuda.
Appleby was ranked as the world's No. 1 offshore law f...
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BEIJING (AP) — China has tightened controls on pay for its top bankers, becoming the latest country to try to reduce financial risks by linking management of risk more closely to compensation.
Banks must withhold at least 40 percent of bonuses for to...
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Butterfield Bank's common shares rose 14.28 percent (25 cents) in the final few minutes of trading on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 18,200 shares to close at $2, while it also saw 10 preference shares change hands, but t...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese consumer inflation spurted to a 16-month high in February and a raft of economic data displayed broad-based strength, providing fresh arguments for policy tightening sooner rather than later.
The pace of credit growth halv...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and American International Group Inc. agreed to shoulder as much as $450 million in losses tied to the insurer's Japan real estate bets as part of the sale of a division to MetLife Inc.
MetL...
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UK government announces high-speed rail plan
LONDON (AP) -- The British government says it plans to start building a high-speed rail link from London to Scotland in 2017, with an estimated cost of 30 billion pounds...
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LONDON (AP) — In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court yesterday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.
The prog-rock group...
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Government had been considering a local bond issue last year prior to coming to the aid of Butterfield Bank with a $200 million guarantee, it was revealed yesterday.
As reported in yesterday's edition of The Royal Gazette, Peter Everson, chairman of ...
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Bermuda still abounds with wealth despite the economic downturn, if the Forbes World Billionaires 2010 list is anything to go by.
The magazine's annual rich list of billionaires revealed that New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, 68, who owns a Tucker's ...
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