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Global Crossing is in talks with lenders to relax the covenants on its $6 billion of debt. The Bermuda-based telecommunications company said late on Tuesday that it was not yet in breach of its lending provisions but that it would fail to meet them a...
DATE: Nov 15, 2001
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PARIS (AP) - The OECD has extended the deadline for tax havens to meet guidelines aimed at curbing harmful tax competition, pushing it to the end of February, the organisation said.
It was the second time the deadline has been extended.
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DATE: Nov 15, 2001
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Audette Exel and Sharon Beesley are anything but cookie cutter models of women succeeding in the highly-competitive world of banking and high finance.
That does not mean that they have not been successful: they have been. Ms Exel is the former managi...
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Bermuda Investment Advisory Services (BIAS) is recommending their clients invest in health care, defence and diversified financial stocks over the short term.
Speaking at the second lunchtime War Counsel Forum entitled: `Understanding a New World of ...
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The cost of a private education rose by 4.2 percent from August to September according to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) released yesterday.
Consumers paid 2.8 percent more in September 2001 than they did a year ago for the goods and services ...
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New reinsurance companies in Bermuda may have secured between 28.5 and 57percent of the estimated total of new capital that will flow into the global insurance market in the next six months.
According to a report by Standard & Poor's, "between $10 bi...
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One of Bermuda's leading insurers, BF&M Ltd, has been given a top rating of "excellent" by a US ratings agency.
A.M. Best Co., the world's oldest and most authoritative insurance rating agency, has assigned an "A minus (Excellent) " rating to BF&M Li...
DATE: Nov 14, 2001
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Conyers Dill & Pearman's Singapore office was officially opened last week by the Bermuda law firm.
CD&P lawyers and executives travelled to Southeast Asia to host the official opening function, which the company hopes will put the firm on the legal m...
DATE: Nov 14, 2001
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Bermuda-based Delphi International Ltd. yesterday announced it will liquidate subsidiary Oracle Reinsurance Company Limited.
The Company announced on September 14, 2001 that it had reached an agreement with its primary reinsureds, creditors and prefe...
DATE: Nov 14, 2001
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A reader of last week's column on the rise of electronic government services gently pointed out the deficiencies of the World Markets Research Centre (WMRC) study I quoted from when discussing how slow government worldwide have been in putting citize...
DATE: Nov 14, 2001
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