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<title><![CDATA[How Tech Is Boosting SMB Lending]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 May 2013 10:52:23 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 2012, credit unions and alternative lenders were the story in small business lending. In recent months, this has changed. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bernanke Calls for End of 'Too-Big-to-Fail']]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 May 2013 10:46:02 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke minced no words Friday on the issue of 'too-big-to-fail' banks. They must be broken up, he said.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should Optimists Avoid Credit Cards?]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 May 2013 09:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Optimism is one of America's defining national characteristics, and was an essential part of this country's rise to greatness. But some academic studies suggest that people with too rosy an outlook can get themselves into trouble, especially financially, and can-do can quickly turn into couldn't-do.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Companies 'cook the books to meet tough targets': survey]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 19:03:53 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hard-pressed company bosses across much of the world are under so much pressure to deliver on growth that many have resorted to cooking the books, Ernst & Young says in its latest Fraud Survey published on Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Funding Scheme Changes Give Banks Lending Incentive - BOE's Bailey]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 May 2013 16:14:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Bank of England's overhauled lending scheme now offers U.K. banks big incentives to lend to small companies but it is unclear whether businesses have the appetite to borrow, a senior BOE official said Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Euro zone sees light at end of tunnel, pitfalls remain]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:47:04 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are no calls for celebration, no desire to relax in the corridors of Brussels but some officials believe the euro zone has turned a corner, sharpening the focus on longer-term reforms and structures.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Analysis: ECB poised to cut rates to help recession-hit euro zone]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:31:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank is closer to lowering interest rates than at any time since it last cut them in July 2012 and is likely to shave a quarter-point off at its policy meeting next week.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ECB Poised to Cut Rates to Help Recession-Hit Euro Zone]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank is closer to lowering interest rates than at any time since it last cut them in July and is likely to shave a quarter-point off.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Manufacturing data stokes fears of global spring swoon]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:22:24 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Major economies in North America, Europe and Asia lost some momentum this month, a clutch of business surveys showed on Tuesday, raising concerns about the strength of the global recovery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Global economy muted again in 2013: Reuters polls]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:50:01 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This year now looks unlikely to deliver much improvement in the world economy's growth rate, with a weaker outlook for Europe and the United States tempering the cautious optimism that was evident in January.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EU ministers to tackle Cyprus fallout, banking union at Dublin talks]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:41:12 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fallout from the messy bailout of Cyprus will top the agenda of a two-day EU finance ministers meeting in Dublin beginning on Friday, with focus also on growing German reluctance over euro zone banking reform.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland faces $6 billion investor action]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:17:20 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A group of shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland is suing the lender and four former directors for losses they claim they incurred when the bank succumbed to a state bailout in 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IMF Study: Banks Passed Italy's Sovereign Woes to Private Sector Quickly]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:14:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rising and volatile Italian government bond spreads caught domestic banks off guard and caused a credit crunch in the euro-zone's third-largest economy in late 2011, the International Monetary Fund concludes in a new study.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Challenges for Female Entrepreneurs Seeking Small Business Loans]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:00:52 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After analyzing 14,000 loan apps over a 6 month period, I find -- not surprisingly -- a gender gap in small business financing does exist.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Investors wary of "slow panic" on growth after Cyprus rescue]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:44:23 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[World markets have reacted calmly to the twists and turns of Cyprus's financial rescue in the last fortnight but many investors fear the economic fallout is yet to come.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Credit Card Debt Problems Could Make a Comeback]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:15:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New Federal Reserve figures suggest we could see another rise in credit card debt and card delinquencies. Should we be worried?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Latvian PM sees no deposit outflows: paper]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:01:31 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Latvia does not expect Russian depositors to pull money out of its banks following Cyprus's bailout, the Baltic state and euro zone aspirant's prime minister was quoted as saying on Monday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iceland Indicts 15 for Securities Fraud]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:55:02 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Iceland's special prosecutor indicted two former chief executives and more than a dozen other ex-employees of banks that fell in the financial crisis that gripped the nation in the autumn of 2008, accusing them of stock-price manipulation and securities fraud.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[We're not Cyprus number two, Latvia says]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:23:17 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Baltic state and euro zone aspirant Latvia, already home to sizeable deposits of Russian money, is not expecting an increase in flows of deposits due to the woes in Cyprus, its bank regulator said on Thursday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyprus Crisis: Déjà Vu All Over Again?]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:10:36 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A small island on the edge of Europe teetering under the weight of its bust banks--sounds a lot like Iceland. ]]></description>
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