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Business Non-Stop — 3 ( А.П.Чужакин. МИР ПЕРЕВОДА-3,2005, стр 78 – 94)

1. Australia's government is to reform the country's financial system, will adopt most of the proposals in a government-sponsored report in a recommended a new regulatory structure and improved oversight the country's payment system. Foreign takeovers in the financial sector,banned until now, will be considered on a case-by-case basis. But mergers between Australia's four biggest banks will still be banned.

2. Another giant American bank is born. Nations Bank, currently the country's fifth-biggest, is set to move up to third place by paying a breathtaking $15.5 billion for Barnett Banks, Florida's largest, in an all-share deal. This represents America's largest ever banking acquisition. Savings through branch closures and staff redundancies could reach $915 m.

3. Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo became the first Portuguese bank to buy a Brazilian bank. Together with a local partner, it is acquiring Banco Boavista, which has 70 branches in 15 Brazilian states.

Britain's Securities and Futures Authority said that it was investigating some $10 m worth of losses at Credit Suisse First Boston, the investment-banking arm of Switzerland's Credit Suisse. The loss was caused by an employee's unauthorised trading of options linked to London's stockmarket index.

4. Investors stampeded out of the Kuala Lumpur stockmarket after Malaysia's prime minister launched another tirade against foreign speculators. The government set up a $20 billion fund to prop up the market. There was also heavy selling of China-related stocks in much more investor-friendly Hong Kong.

* * * While investors were selling in Asia they were buying on Wall Street. The American market staged its biggest ever one-day rise (in points) on news that inflation remains subdued.

5. Overcapitalized banks have been handing out loans left, right and centre. The amount of international syndicated lending by banks leapt to a record $194.5 billion in the second quarter of last year, as borrowers rushed to take advantage of an avalanche of cash that was on offer at rock-bottom rates.

* * *AnotherBritish regulator, the Personal Investment Authority (PIA). fined DBS Financial Management, a financial adviser, £425,000 in the largest penalty levied so far in connection with Britain's pensions misselling scandal. DBS's chairman resigned from the PIA's board.

6. A row has broken out over the future of Air France. The country’s transport minister said he was opposed to privatising the airline. Christian Blanc, its chairman, threatened to resign if the company was not sold off.

* * *British Airways, which suffered a short but costly strike by me of its cabin crew is still trying to settle the dispute with unions. Desruption to its activities and lost business as a result of the strike has cost the around £125m.

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7. Serge Trigano, the former chairman of Club Mediterranee, filed a $70 m lawsuit in New York against Bain & Co, an American consulting firm, alleging that it had used proprietary information to produce a secret report that had contributed to his replacement. Bain strongly denies the charge.

* * * Japan's largest international telecoms firm, KDD, said it would take legal action to block America's attempt to cut the cost of overseas calls made from the United States.

7. French supermarket chains are on a shopping spree. Promodes will overtake Intermarche to become the largest chain in France if it succeeds in its $4.6 billion hostile bid for Casino and for Rallye. Casino bought the French retailing operations of Beatrice in order to beef up its business. More battles are likely in an industry that has long been dogged by restrictions on opening new stores.

8. Three years after belatedly creating a clone industry by licensing its Macintosh operating system, Apple Computer admitted failure. Far from creating a wider market for Mac software, the cloners had merely grabbed Apple's customers. The troubled computer maker is to pay $ 100m for the assets of the largest cloner, Power Computing, and will no longer license new technology to the rest.

9. America's government imposed sanctions on three Japanese shipping lines — Nippon, Mitsui OSK Lines and Kawasaki — in retaliation for Japan’s failure to end restrictive practices in its ports. The three will have to pay $100,000 each time one of their freighters uses an American port.

* * * Two hotel chains, Doubletree and Promus Hotel, are to merge in a $2 billion share swap. Together, they will form America's third-largest chain in terms of revenues.

10. South Korea's Daewoo Group is to invest $1.3 billion in a joint venture with AvtoVAZ, to build cars in Ukraine. It denied reports that General Motors had pulled out and said that the American firm remained a junior partner in the project.

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