The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

confrontation with customers and regulators over the derisory
rates of interest paid on many savings accounts 26/08/01 N 2
7>8
* Prudential faces sanctions in the US unless it decides to join an
international commission set up to trace Holocaust victims'
insurance policies 26/08/01 N 2 3>6
* The European Central Bank is coming under mounting
pressure to cut interest rates at its key Governing Council
meeting in Frankfurt 26/08/01 N 2 7>8
* Scrapping the pound would cost top banks £500m each - see
Euro, The 02/09/01
* Claims Direct managers are to be compensated 02/09/01 N 1
7>8
* Prudential has snubbed a plea by Holocaust campaigners to
join an international commission tracing lost or stolen wartime
insurance policies 02/09/01 N 1 3>6
* Simon Ware-Lane, the new boss of Claims Direct promises
profits within six months and a new deal for customers 02/09/01
N 7 1>5 Photograph
* How a NatWest bungle left one customer less than satisfied -
see Personal Finance 09/09/01
* Markets may be in the doldrums, but every month, scientists
and financiers meet over canapés in a London hospital to tap a
funding bonanza, known as Biotech Wednesday - see Business
& Industry 09/09/01
* Citibank faces fresh money-laundering controversy after up to
$200m, allegedly looted from Brazil in a major political scandal,
turned up at the bank's Jersey branch 09/09/01 N 1 5>8
* Coutts, the bank of the super-rich polishes its 'dream team'
investment image as rivals close in 09/09/01 N 5 1>4
Photograph
* Financial services companies are eager to appeal to women,
who they see as key financial decision-makers in families and
affluent in their own right 09/09/01 C 7 1>2
* Barclays Bank is among several British financial institutions
investigated by intelligence services as potential fund channels
for Osama bin Laden - see Terrorism 16/09/01
* Troubled Equitable Life is expected to announce details of a
deal critical to stabilising its finances 16/09/01 N 2 1>8
* Funds are expected to trade normally tomorrow following the
reopening of the US stock markets 16/09/01 R 6 3>6
Photograph
* America is to lead an unprecedented money-laundering
crackdown on the world's tax havens, promising that the era of
offshore banking secrecy 'is history' - see International Affairs:
U.S.A. 23/09/01
* Policyholders with Equitable Life are receiving weighty
documents outlining the board's proposals for plugging the black
hole in Equitable's finances - see Personal Finance 23/09/01
* The management of beleaguered insurer Equitable Life may be
forced to offer a new rescue deal to policyholders 23/09/01 N 2
8
* If terrorists were behind the largest insider trading scam in
history, where is the evidence? - see International Affairs: The
Terrorism Crisis 30/09/01
* The British workforce needs to find the means to save an extra
£27bn a year to live comfortably in retirement, research for the
insurance industry has revealed - see Personal Finance 30/09/01
* US investigators trying to seize Osama bin Laden's assets are
examining the relationship between London-based banks and
Sudanese AIShamal Islamic Bank - see International Affairs:
The Terrorism Crisis 30/09/01
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* High street bank accounts are to be combed for suspect activity
in the war on terrorism 30/09/01 C 6>7 1>5
* Interview with Sir Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial
Services Authority - see Financial Services Authority 07/10/01
* Wall Street's wake-up call - see Work 07/10/01
* Big accountancy firms are facing unprecedented US
government demands to disclose confidential information on
clients based in tax havens following the attacks in New York
and Washington 07/10/01 N 2 7>8
* Euronext, the pan-European stock exchange operator, is
expected to start a bidding contest for the London International
Financial Futures and Options Exchange 07/10/01 N 2 1>4
* Commerzbank of Germany is to axe 3,000 jobs in a bid to cut
costs in the face of the global economic showdown 14/10/01 N
2 1>4
* KPMG is to be investigated by the accountancy regular over its
role as auditor to the failed Independent Insurance 21/10/01 N 1
5>8
* Lloyd's of London has rushed through emergency measures to
cushion the market from soaring claims arising from the terrorist
attacks on New York and Washington last month 21/10/01 N 1
1>3
* The Square Mile will lose a staunch defender as L&G's David
Rough bows out 21/10/01 N 12 1>5 Photograph
* Merrill Lynch faces legal action by a fund manager
unceremoniously sacked in connected with a currency trading
scandal 21/10/01 N 2 1>3
* Up to 40 split capital trusts could collapse if the stock market
fell by 20 per cent or more, according to an analysis by the
Financial Services Authority 21/10/01 N 2 8
* The London Stock Exchange looks set to be odds-on favourite
to win the auction for the Liffe derivatives market - see Financial
Institutions 28/10/01
* The London Stock Exchange looks set to be odds-on favourite
to win the auction for the Liffe derivatives market 28/10/01 N 6
1>8 Photographs
* Whichever bid they accept, Liffe (the London International
Financial Futures and Options Exchange) executives can only be
winners 28/10/01 N 6 7>8
* Clear evidence of a slow-down in the housing market will
come from the country's biggest lender, Halifax, this week - see
Property 04/11/01
* Lazard may sell itself to a rival that would end the investment
bank's 150 years of independence 04/11/01 N 1 5>8
* The millionaire head of Mercury Asset Management was a
heroine to the £60,000-a-year boss of Unilever's pension fund -
until the fund's value fell, now the pair are fighting in the High
Court 11/11/01 N 3 1>8 Photographs
* Lazard, the investment bank that made and broke great
corporate names is now plagued by internal dissent 11/11/01 N
6 1>8 Photographs
* The Financial Services Authority is about to be remade with
tough new powers, but will they be sufficient to root out
scandals in the Square Mile? - see Financial Services Authority
18/11/01
* Major lenders face a crackdown over the way they deal with
borrowers who are struggling with debt 18/11/01 N 1 1>4
* Citibank has signed only one internet bank other than its own
for its aggregation service, My Accounts, seven weeks after
launch 18/11/01 C 11 1>2
* Management at troubled insurer Equitable Life is embroiled in
a fresh controversy this weekend 25/11/01 N 2 4>7