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| Feb.20 |
London |
HSBC shares down as full year profit falls 62% |
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| Dec.22 |
Rome |
Italy approves bailout for Monte dei Paschi |
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| Aug.30 |
European Union |
Apple should pay up to €13bn in back taxes |
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| Jun.24 |
United Kingdom |
Moody's cut UK's credit outlook to 'negative' |
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| Jun.5 |
Switzerland |
Switzerland 'rejects basic income', poll projections suggest |
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| May.24 |
Brussels |
Greece bailout: Eurozone agrees 'breakthrough' debt deal |
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| Apr.2 |
Athens |
Greece challenges IMF over 'debt transcript leak' |
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| Mar.10 |
European Union |
ECB reveals surprise stimulus moves |
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| Feb.15 |
European Union |
Mario Draghi seeks to calm fears over European banks |
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| Sep.7 |
Moldova |
Moldova protest camp in Chisinau over $1bn bank fraud |
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| Jul.19 |
 Greece |
Banks reopen after three-week shutdown 
Greek banks are set to reopen after three weeks of closures sparked by the deadlock over the country's debt
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| Jul.8 |
Greece |
Banks stay shut as endgame looms |
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| Jul.6 |
Athens |
PM Tsipras to present new plan at eurozone summit |
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Greece |
Debt crisis: Creditors press for new proposals
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| Jul.5 |
Greece |
Debt crisis: Greek voters reject bailout offer | With almost all the ballots counted, results from the Greek referendum show voters decisively rejecting the terms of an international bailout. 61% of those whose ballots had been counted voting 'No', against 39% voting... | |
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| Jul.4 |
Athens |
Varoufakis accuses creditors of 'terrorism' |
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| Jun.30 |
Athens |
IMF payment missed as bailout expires | Greece has missed the deadline for £1.1bn payment to the International Monetary Fund, hours after eurozone ministers refused to extend its bailout | |
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| Jun.28 |
Athens |
Greek debt crisis: Banks to remain shut all week The Greek government has confirmed that banks will be closed all week, after a decision by the European Central Bank not to extend emergency funding
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Greece |
Greek banks will not open Monday |
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West Germany |
Greek debt crisis: ECB not raising funding limit |
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| Jun.27 |
European Union |
Greece crisis: Eurozone refuses bailout extension Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a Greek request to extend a bailout programme beyond 30 June
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| Feb.20 |
 Brussels |
Greece agrees deal with eurozone Greece and eurozone nations have agreed a deal to extend financial aid after bailout talks in Brussels
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| Dec.17 |
Moscow |
Russia's shock-and-awe move fails to halt ruble collapse |
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| Oct.26 |
European Union |
Vulnerable European banks identified Twenty-four European banks have failed stress tests of their finances, the European Banking Authority has announced
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| Mar.28 |
Cyprus |
Cyprus banks reopen with tough curbs |
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| Mar.25 |
Cyprus |
Cyprus banks closed until Thursday
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| Mar.24 |
Brussels |
Deal reached in Cyprus bailout talks Eurozone finance ministers have agreed on a 10bn-euro bailout to prevent its banking system collapsing and keep the country in the eurozone
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| Mar.22 |
Cyprus |
Cyprus MPs pass banking reforms
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| Mar.19 |
Cyprus |
Cyprus MPs reject divisive bank tax |
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| Mar.16 |
Cyprus |
Shock in Cyprus over bailout levy |
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| Mar.15 |
Brussels |
Eurozone agrees Cyprus bailout deal Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a 10bn euros bailout package for Cyprus to save the country from bankruptcy
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| Feb.27 |
European Union |
EU agrees to cap bankers' bonuses |
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| Feb.8 |
Brussels |
EU leaders agree 3% budget cut |
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| Dec.10 |
London |
HSBC 'to pay $1.9bn' in US deal
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| Oct.18 |
Belgium |
EU in deal on bank supervision |
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| Sep.3 |
European Union |
Moody's lowers EU rating outlook |
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| Jul.3 |
London |
Barclays Bank boss Diamond resigns
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| Jun.29 |
Belgium |
European leaders reach key deal on banks
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| Jun.14 |
Spain |
Spain crisis costs enter 'danger zone'
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| Jun.10 |
Spain |
Spain PM: 'Credibility of euro' is saved |
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| Jun.9 |
 Spain |
Spanish bank bailout request welcomed Spain's decision to request a loan of up to 100bn euros from eurozone funds to help shore up its struggling banks has won broad support
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| May.27 |
Greece |
Lagarde tax jibe angers Greeks |
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| May.25 |
Spain |
Spain's Bankia seeks 19bn euros
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| May.23 |
Belgium |
Europe 'wants Greece in the eurozone' |
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| May.17 |
Spain |
Moody's downgrades Spanish banks |
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| Mar.8 |
Greece |
Greece confirms debt deal success The Greek government has indicated that it has secured sufficient backing for a debt swap deal that will enable it to avoid defaulting on its...
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| Dec.5 |
Paris |
France, Germany outline fiscal pact
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| Nov.2 |
France |
Bailout loan withheld from Greece
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| Oct.31 |
Greece |
Greece to hold bailout referendum
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| Oct.26 |
Belgium |
EU leaders reach eurozone agreement EU leaders announce a deal on debt crisis measures, including a hard-fought deal with private sector investors to take a 50% loss on Greek bonds
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| Oct.15 |
Rome |
Protest rallies grip major cities
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| Oct.9 |
Berlin |
Euro crisis talks 'end in accord'
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| Oct.2 |
Greece |
Greece to miss targets on deficit
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| Sep.15 |
 Switzerland |
UBS: 'Unauthorized' trades cost us $2 B Swiss banking giant UBS discovered that 'unauthorized trading by a trader in its investment bank' has cost it an estimated $2 billion
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| Aug.16 |
Paris |
Leaders demand 'euro governance'
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| Jul.21 |
European Union |
Eurozone agrees new Greek bailout
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| Jun.28 |
France |
Christine Lagarde named IMF chief
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| Jun.19 |
European Union |
European ministers: Greece to get loans
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| Apr.6 |
 Portugal |
Portugal seeks bail-out from EU Portugal becomes the third eurozone country to request financial aid from the European Union, saying it is at too great a risk
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| Nov.21 |
Ireland |
Irish government backs bail-out
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| Sep.21 |
Vatican |
Bank investigated over money laundering
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| Jul.23 |
European Union |
Europe's big banks pass stress tests Officials led by the European Central Bank tested 91 banks, and most of banks passed stress tests aimed at shoring up confidence in the econ...
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| May.9 |
Belgium |
EU approves $560B crisis fund Europe's finance ministers approved in an emergency meeting a 'stabilization mechanism' that could provide 440 billion euros for a aid packa...
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| Mar.15 |
Belgium |
EU ministers agree Greek plan
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| Mar.2 |
Greece |
Budget crisis is like wartime situation - PM Prime Minister George Papandreou has likened the country's budget crisis to a 'wartime situation' and said Greece was at risk of bankruptcy
| The government has approved a package of tax increases and spending cuts to save 4.8bn euros and ease its budget crisis, including rises in sales taxes, a cut in holiday bonuses paid to civil servants, and a pensions freeze.
The EU had called for austerity measures
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| Feb.10 |
Greece |
PM vows to slash huge government deficit Workers protest against austerity measures imposed by a government trying to dig its way out of a financial crisis that threatens to engulf ...
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| Sep.5 |
London |
G20 pledges tougher bank action
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| Mar.13 |
Switzerland |
Switzerland eases banking secrecy The world's largest offshore financial centre has agreed to accept concessions on bank secrecy
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| Oct.11 |
Paris |
EU chiefs confront markets crisis
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| Oct.8 |
London |
World's central banks slash interest rates
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| Oct.7 |
 United Kingdom |
UK bank rescue package imminent Chancellor Alistair Darling to announce details of a £50bn rescue package for the UK banking system
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| Oct.4 |
Paris |
No banks bail-out fund for Europe
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| Sep.17 |
United Kingdom |
Barclays agrees $1.75B Lehman deal
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| Jan.24 |
 Paris |
Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn | Bank Societe Generale as uncovered 'massive' fraud by a trader which resulted in a loss of 4.9bn euros | |
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| Dec.16 |
Belgium |
EU leaders agree 7-year budget |
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| Jun.11 |
London |
G8 ministers back Africa debt deal Finance ministers have agreed to cancel up to $55 billion worth of debt owed by the world's poorest nations
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| Mar.31 |
Berlin |
Afghanistan wins $8.2bn in aid |
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| Dec.16 |
Germany |
Joint plan to relieve Iraq debt |
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| Sep.14 |
Sweden |
Voters rejects euro currency |
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| Jan.1 |
European Union |
Euro mark celebrations People lined up in freezing temperatures to get a jump on the most ambitious currency swap in history
| The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency in 1999 and launched as physical coins and banknotes in 2002. The official spelling of the euro is 'euro' in the Latin script. The euro is divided into 100 cents
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| Sep.28 |
Denmark |
Denmark rejects euro
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