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UK. HSBC on the corner Stretham Hill. Feb. 2, 2009
(photo: WN / marzena)
HSBC admits data theft hit 24,000 accounts
The Independent
| HSBC's private Bank in Switzerland apologised to customers yesterday after disclosing that the details of 24,000 accounts were stolen by an employee three years ago. | The admission comes after the French finance ministry said last December that it had been given data on Swiss bank accounts held b...
300ER Air France
(photo: Creative Commons / Douchet Quentin)
Air France lets fly with legal salvo at Ryanair
The Independent
| An aerial dogfight is about to break out in the skies of Europe. The French national flag carrier, Air France, has launched the biggest and most elaborate legal challenge so far to the local subsidies - or "contributions" - received by the Irish-based cut-price airline Ryanair for flying to region...
US likely to get peek at HSBC accounts
The Guardian
* HSBC data could be trove for U.S., other tax authorities * Clues could provide road map for government probes By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The revelation that an ex-employee of HSBC Holdings Plc stole tens of thousands of its Swiss...
Air France Lets Fly Legal Attack on Ryanair
Business Week
| An aerial dogfight is about to break out in the skies of Europe. The French national flag carrier, Air France (AFLYY), has launched the biggest and most elaborate legal challenge so far to the local subsidies – or "contributions" – rece...
AF447: French famililes want equal compensation
Fresno Bee
| The Associated Press thefresnobee_994:/2010/03/12/1856995/af447-french-famililes-want-equal.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | PARIS -- A French support group said Friday that it will seek equal compensation for ...
AF447: French famililes want equal compensation
The Miami Herald
| PARIS -- A French support group said Friday that it will seek equal compensation for the families of French victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 after a Brazilian judge awarded more than $1 million for a Brazilian who died in the flight fr...
In this Aug. 29, 2007 file photo, American Airlines aircrafts are shown operating at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas. American Airlines says, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, it will cut domestic capacity by 11 percent to 12 percent in the fourth quarter as it grapples with record-high fuel prices.
AP / Tony Gutierrez, file
E.U. Signals Approval for Larger Airline Alliance
The New York Times
| BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators took a step Wednesday toward approving an expanded alliance between British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia after the airline...
A Look at Global Economic Developments
WN / Denise Yong
A Look at Global Economic Developments
The New York Times
| Filed at 1:52 p.m. ET | A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday: | ------ | BEIJING -- China's exports surged in February i...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks to reporters after a meeting with bankers at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. France's leading banks agreed Tuesday to curbs on the way they award bonuses, including penalties for traders who lose money for their companies, as part of a push by Sarkozy for worldwide limits on bonus payouts.
AP / Christophe Ena
Sarkozy to raise competition concerns with Obama over multibillion-dollar tanker contract
Star Tribune
| PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will raise concerns that the U.S. Air Force's $35 billion tanker contract is anticompetitive when he visits President Barack Obama later ...
Sarkozy slams U.S. for protectionism on tanker deal
The Guardian
* France's Sarkozy attacks U.S. over tanker plane contract * Accuses Washington of protectionism * UK's Brown also disappointed about the issue (Adds Brown quotes, background) By Estelle Shirbon LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas S...
Franco-British rift emerges ahead of EU decision on hedge fund laws
m&c
| Brussels - The European Union was struggling Friday to find a unified position on regulating hedge funds ahead of a key meeting of finance ministers, as a rift emerged between France and Britain. | The council of EU finance ministers - Ecofin - is ...
15,000 clients affected by stolen HSBC Swiss bank data
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| ABOUT 15,000 customers may have been affected by the theft of data from a Swiss branch of banking giant HSBC three years ago, Alexandre Zeller, chief executive of HSBC Private Bank, said overnight. | HSBC Private Bank (Switzerland) apologised to it...
HSBC admits data theft hit 24,000 accounts
The Independent
| HSBC's private Bank in Switzerland apologised to customers yesterday after disclosing that the details of 24,000 accounts were stolen by an employee three years ago. | The admission comes after the French finance ministry said last December that it...
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HSBC   bank located in Makati Avenue , Makati City , Philippines , February 14 , 2009.
(photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
HSBC Says Stolen Bank Data Involved Thousands of Swiss Clients
The New York Times
| PARIS — HSBC Holdings, the largest British bank, said Thursday that the theft of Swiss client data at the heart of a recent tax dispute with France was vastly larger than it had previously acknowledged, and said it was spending about $100 million to upgrade its security systems to avoid a repeat. | The theft, carried out about three years a...



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