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AMSTERDAM (Bloomberg) — ABN Amro Holding NV and Fortis Bank Nederland Holding NV, bought by the Dutch state last year, may cut as many as 5,000 jobs, or 17 percent of the workforce, by 2012 as the Netherlands merges the businesses.
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DATE: May 20, 2009
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Allstate Corp. became the second insurer yesterday to turn down a bailout from the Treasury Department after being approved for government funding .
The property and casualty insurer said it has strong capital and liquidit...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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US Consul General Gregory Slayton says a Government delegation to Washington D.C. has been buoyed by their "warm reception" by Members of Congress.
Mr. Slayton is accompanying Premier Dr. Ewart Brown and Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox ...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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n Bermuda's women's national cricket team suffered their second successive defeat at the World Cup Qualifiers in Florida yesterday, losing to Canada by seven wickets in a rain affected game reduced to 20 overs per team.
Batting first, Bermuda scored ...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Embattled insurer American International Group Inc. said yesterday it will reconfigure its board to include six new independent directors.
Six new nominees will be up for election at the New York-based company's annual mee...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Dominique Ferrero, former chief executive officer of French investment bank Natixis SA, resigned from the board of Lazard Ltd., the investment bank led by Bruce Wasserstein.
Bermuda-based Lazard made the announcement in a regul...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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CHICAGO (AP) — Ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's wife will decide soon whether to be on a reality TV show in the Costa Rican jungle, a defence attorney said Monday.
But Patti Blagojevich has not yet made a deal to be on the NBC show "I'm a C...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Europe's 30 biggest insurers will face a compulsory stress test in 2010 to gauge their strength to withstand the financial crisis, a top European insurance supervisor said yesterday.
"We have to look at the danger of contagi...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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Two organisations have joined forces to put on an undergraduate course at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
The Island's Atlantic Conservation Partnership (ACP), together with the St. John's University, in New York, is partnering on the course wh...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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Bermuda have been thrown a cricketing lifeline after the ICC announced they will expand their Intercontinental Cup competition to include a second division.
The Island's cricket team were in danger of being cast into the international wilderness afte...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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