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Butterfield Bank has again been named Bank of the Year in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands by The Banker magazine. This is the fifth consecutive year Butterfield Bank has received the award in Bermuda, and the third time it has received the award in Ca...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Scottish Re Group Ltd.’s top executives will not be getting the bonus they had hoped for when the reinsurer is sold for $4 a share, a far cry from the $12 a share investors had sought.Scottish Re’s shares have plummeted since Jul...
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(Bloomberg) — The US economy may head into 2007 in weaker-than-expected shape after reports showed October new- home sales fell for the first time in three months and stockpiles at companies jumped last quarter.House purchases declined 3.2 percent to...
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HALIFAX — Long a source of tourists for Bermuda, the Canadian city of Halifax is becoming a source of skilled labour for the Island’s financial institutions. The Nova Scotia capital has embarked on a strategy of becoming an administrative centre for ...
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Butterfield Bank has again been named Bank of the Year in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands by The Banker magazine. This is the fifth consecutive year Butterfield Bank has received the award in Bermuda, and the third time it has received the award in Ca...
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(Bloomberg) The cost of hiring 2 million-barrel oil tankers has fallen so low that operators including Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd., the world’s second-biggest, may be losing money each time they hire out a ship. The benchmark cost of transporting c...
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida state lawmakers will meet in a special session in mid-January to try to tackle a property insurance crisis caused by the devastating hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005.In a widely expected session that will start on Jan...
DATE: Nov 30, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) — A court-appointed investigator probing some of the allegations of fraud that led to Refco Inc.’s collapse last year has demanded the employment records of four employees of Grant Thornton LLP.
Grant Thornton served as the ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2006
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DUBAI (Bloomberg) ? Lancashire Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based insurer, plans to open an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to help increase sales in the Middle East.
?Having a presence in the Middle East will allow the Lancashire Group to grow a ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Monster Worldwide Inc., a leading provider of online help-wanted advertising, announced partnerships with four newspaper publishers Monday, expanding its base of advertising-sharing arrangements with traditional media companies.The ne...
DATE: Nov 29, 2006
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