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Suspension cost JPMorgan banker US$3million

  Bloomberg A JPMorgan Chase & Co foreign-exchange salesman who was fired for failing to follow rules introduced in the wake of the market-rigging scandal said his suspension left him anxious and isolated and eventually cost him 2 million pounds (US$3 million). Patrice Ktorza, a former executive director, is suing the bank for unfair dismissal in a London tribunal. He ...

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Nova Scotia bank profit plunges 12% on soured loans

  Bloomberg Bank of Nova Scotia said fiscal second-quarter profit fell 12 percent on higher losses from energy loans and restructuring charges as it shifts toward digital banking. Net income for the period ended April 30 slid to C$1.58 billion ($1.21 billion), or C$1.23 a share, from C$1.8 billion, or C$1.42, a year earlier, the Toronto-based bank said Tuesday in ...

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ECB Prez urges policy makers to focus on implementation

  BLOOMBERG Mario Draghi’s insistence that his stimulus programme is only half done brings with it a worrying thought. What if its best effects are already spent anyway? At least four times at Thursday’s press meet in Vienna, the European Central Bank president emphasised how policy makers need to see the ‘full impact’ and must ‘focus on implementation’ of their ...

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