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UPDATE 4-Ireland draws bumper demand for first post-bailout bond

* Ten-year issue about three times oversubscribed * European peripheral yields tighten * Sets seal on Ireland's completion of EU/IMF bailout By Conor Humphries and John Geddie DUBLIN/LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters/IFR) - Ireland made a storming return to the international bond mar

Sector movers: Banking stocks rise, Lloyds leads gains

Banking stocks were the best performers on Tuesday after data showed that funding conditions for British lenders had eased in the fourth quarter of 2013. Stocks in the sector have traded broadly sideways over the past two weeks of so, taking a breather over the festive season. However, Lloyds has

HSBC mulls share awards for staff to counter bonus cap

LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - HSBC is planning to hand new share awards to about 1,000 of its top staff as part of a plan to cope with new European rules that cap the level of bonuses that banks can pay, an industry source said on Tuesday. The plan, which has not been finalised, would have the

London midday: Stocks gain, ECB in focus as inflation eases

- Eurozone inflation eases to 0.8 per cent - ECB in focus ahead of meeting on Thursday - Banks lift Footsie into positive territory techMARK 2,796.28 +0.14% FTSE 100 6,761.20 +0.45% FTSE 250 16,076.04 +0.17% After a slow start, markets pushed into positive territory by Tuesday lunchtime as an unex

U.S. judge orders RBS unit in Japan to pay $50 mln over Libor

Jan 6 (Reuters) - A Japanese investment banking unit of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc was ordered on Monday to pay a $50 million criminal fine after pleading guilty to wire fraud over its role in manipulating the benchmark interest rate Libor. RBS Securities Japan Ltd had entered its ple

UPDATE 2-Thermo Fisher sells cell culture, other businesses to GE

By Jessica Toonkel Jan 6 (Reuters) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc said it would sell three businesses to General Electric Co's healthcare unit for $1.06 billion, a deal that will enable Thermo Fisher to secure European antitrust approval for its acquisition of Life Technologies Corp. <

EU bank trading plan stops short of U.S. Volcker Rule

* EU reform seen as compromise to keep France, Germany happy * Proprietary trading ban would only affect biggest lenders * Exemptions from bans available to national regulators * Proposal unlikely to be approved until 2015 at earliest By Huw Jones LONDON, Jan 6 (Reut

UPDATE 1-Ireland to test markets with first post-bailout bond

DUBLIN, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Ireland is to test international bond markets for the first time since exiting its EU/IMF bailout with a new syndicated 10-year bond, the country's debt agency said on Monday. The sale, which traders said was likely within days, will be Dublin's first bond issue si

Ireland tests markets with first post-bailout bond

DUBLIN, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Ireland has mandated the issue of a new syndicated ten-year bond in its first return to debt markets following completion of an EU/IMF bailout last month, its debt agency said on Monday. The National Treasury Management Agency picked Barclays , Citi Bank, Danske Ba

Over 6,000 seek mortgages under UK Help to Buy scheme

LONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Over 6,000 people have applied for mortgages under the British government's Help to Buy scheme in its first three months, which if approved would amount to 910 million pounds ($1.5 billion) in loans, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Thursday. Presented by

MARKET COMMENT: UK Stocks Close Up, FTSE 100 Ends December Higher Yet Again

MARKET COMMENT: UK Stocks Trade Higher As 2014 Approaches

PRESS: Trust In Barclays May Take 10 Years To Achieve, CEO Jenkins - BBC

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Tesco, Greece...

Antony Jenkins, Chief Executive of Barclays, has admitted it could take as long as a decade for the bank, which has been implicated in a number of banking scandals, to regain customer trust. Barclays was the first bank to be implicated in the Libor scandal in which traders rigged a key interbank len

Detroit mediators ask judge to approve swaps deal

By Joseph Lichterman DETROIT, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The mediators who oversaw negotiations between Detroit and two banks to strike a deal to end a costly interest-rate swap agreement recommended on Monday that the judge in charge of Detroit's bankruptcy approve the agreement, arguing the deal