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LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Barclays Chief Executive Officer John Varley said the British bank would be sensitive to public opinion when handing out bonus checks later this year.
LONDON, April 4 (UPI) -- London's police agency, guided by a financial adviser, pulled millions of pounds from an Iceland bank but then put the funds back in the bank, officials said.
LONDON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Lawmakers in Britain are calling on bailed-out banks to show restraint in executive pay and bonuses or risk limits like those imposed in the United States.
LONDON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The Royal Bank of Scotland, 68 percent owned by the British government, is planning to pay tens of millions of dollars in bonuses this year, sources said.
LONDON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A $64 billion rescue offered to three banks in Britain may not be enough to stabilize the British banking system, the Treasury Select Committee chairman said.
LONDON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Matt Ridley, chairman of the troubled British bank Northern Rock, has resigned.
GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- British banks refunding $2 billion to customers for illegally inflating mortgage-exit fees are now inflating up-front fees, a consumer advocacy group alleged.
LONDON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he will not give a timetable for his departure from office at this year's Labor Party Conference.
LONDON, March 31 (UPI) -- Members of Britain's Parliament are expressing alarm at the growing number of automated teller machines charging user fees.