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UK watchdog holds off on banning 'contingent' fees for pension transfers

Lawmakers have argued that charging a so-called “contingent” fee ... over their 14 billion pound pension pot. “Having seen the fate that befell British Steel pensioners, the Committee called on the FC... read more

Lloyds, RBS and HSBC face hit to revenues as UK watchdog considers ban on overdraft fees

UK ... the Financial Conduct Authority said it was considering a ban on charges for unarranged overdrafts. Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY) earlier this month warned that it would lose revenue on i... read more

Indian expats concerned over

Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah presents the informatics shield to Secretary General of the International Telecommunication ... read more

Strong Economic Fundamentals? Not in New Obama Ad

Implicit in that picture is that McCain backs the man who presided over the current financial mess, and would represent a continuation of his policies. The production of this spot in less than 24 hour... read more

Hermes Pledge To Stir City Ethics Debate

New (KOSDAQ: 160550.KQ - news) rules overseen by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation ... also been at the centre of controversy, particularly over the transparency of the fees ch... read more

Macro-Meta – 'There are No Words for What's Going On' edition

Eventually that choking off of life-blood to our capitalist system, caused businesses to atrophy and a squeezing of the consumer to the point where their needs have actually finally taken supremacy ov... read more

Pope Francis' climate message fails to move GOP

Francis is to address lawmakers in September in the first speech by a pope ... faced questions in the run-up to passage of Obama's health care bill over her support for abortion rights in light of the ... read more

A Few Things Ill Considered

Talks in Bonn have delivered no progress on delivering climate finance, says LDC negotiator Countries have ploughed on with the task of creating a new UN climate treaty over the past two ... say 400 l... read more

Einstein, insanity and the war on drugs

Over the years, the war on drugs has spurred repeated calls ... will result in a more receptive audience for their pro-legalization arguments among lawmakers and government leaders. The budgetary impa... read more

Is the President's Health Bill Worth Supporting?

In this week's JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with two prominent advocates of health reform with very different perspectives on the President's health bill. Wendell Potter ... I studied a lot of these eff... read more

A Debate About McCain

More troublesome for McCain has been the political impact of all those factors on the state of the race. Over the past three weeks, there has been an across-the-board shift toward Obama, to the point ... read more

Wall Street vs. Reform?

While Kaptur and Johnson broadly agreed that Wall Street’s influence has stymied government efforts to rein in large banks and trace how several hundred billion dollars of bailout money has been spent ... read more