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...
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...
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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 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...
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...
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...
