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Co-op memo: Lloyds deal will never work unless we engineer the figures

Co-operative Group enjoyed a festive sales boost thanks to its smaller convenience stores
Correspondence reveals former deputy chairman demeaned Co-op managers and his fellow directors, questioning both their competence and their 'guts'
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Rupert Soames to join Serco

Aggreko chief Rupert Soames, 54, the grandson of Winston Churchill, will take the helm at Serco in April
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IAG returns to profitability on Iberia overhaul

BA's parent company boosted by new Heathrow slots and the popularity of new A380 and Dreamliner
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Standard Life set to move south if Scots vote 'yes' to independence

Insurance firm's chief warns: 'We have duty to protect our shareholders'
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Ofgem orders Big Six energy firms to return £400m to former customers

'Unacceptably large amount of money' being retained by large energy providers
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GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix swine flu vaccination

Witty prospers despite GSK's Chinese scandal

Glaxo paid its chief executive £7.2m for 2013- a year rocked by a bribery scandal in China
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RBS has revealed annual losses of £8.2bn

RBS bonus fury as bankers walk away with £576m despite £8.2bn losses

RBS reveals bonus pot despite slumping deeper into the red
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Stephen Hester launches £775m rights issue in RSA overhaul

Former RBS boss plans to sell £300 million worth of assets to plug capital shortfall
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Co-op sells 150 years of history with plans to ditch farms ahead of £2bn loss

Reverberations from its banking scandal continue to shake the operation
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Officers from City of London Police and their Spanish counterparts from the Policia Nacional remove a suspect after raiding a business property in Barcelona

The real Wolf of Wall Street?

Police swoop on 110 suspected 'boiler room' fraudsters in an unprecedented international crackdown
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Virgin to offer broadband 'twice as fast as its rivals'

The 152Mb service will cost £37.50 without line rental
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The Airbus factory

Airbus hails return to 'normality' as profits soar to €1.5bn

Group profits jumped 22% to €1.5bn in 2013 after axing a damagingly burdensome political ownership structure
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Business investment fuels hopes of balanced recovery

GDP unrevised at 0.7% as investment jump suggests economy less reliant on consumer spending
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Mt.Gox closure: Bitcoin exchange probed by US and Japanese authorities

Mt.Gox taken offline without explanation amid rumours of theft and insolvency
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Co-op to 'sell farms ahead of £2bn loss'

Food-to-banking group is bracing for mammoth losses after a year marred by financial and drug scandal
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ITV to pay special dividend as profits jump on buoyant Studios business

Broadcaster shares have almost doubled since the start of 2013
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Tesco: Who says it's hard to make home delivery profits?

UK's biggest supermarket revealed its groceries home delivery business made a massive £127m profit
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Persimmon is due to complete 9,400 homes this year, eight per cent more than last year, but it said that lack of mortgage finance was hampering the market

Persimmon profits jump on strong housing demand

Housebuilder speeds up cash return plan as profits leap
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The @GSElevator twitter feed has over 630,000 followers

@GSElevator revealed:

Embarrassment for Goldman Sachs as Twitter ‘mole’ turns out to be a fake despite bank launching in-house investigation
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Major fraud uncovered in Mexico will cut $235m off Citi’s net profits

Exclusive: Citigroup profits hit by major Mexican fraud as chief executive Michael Corbat admits 'impact to our credibility is harder to calculate'

Citigroup was today forced to slash its profits for last year due to a major fraud uncovered in Mexico described by its chief executive as a “galling example” of staff failing to act to the highest ethical standards.
Exclusive: ‘Ukrainian assets owned or used by ousted President Viktor Yanukovych hidden behind trail of firms with links to UK’
Half a million UK homes in negative equity
Defence chiefs face Commons inquiry over ‘wasted’ money
Co-op memo: Lloyds deal will never work unless we engineer the figures
Britain will not freeze Yanukovych's Ukrainian assets ‘until EU agrees’
Mt.Gox files for bankruptcy protection
US businesswoman apologises after the 'rude' rejection she sent a young jobseeker on LinkedIn goes viral
Pearson shares plunge as restructuring hits profits
IAG returns to profitability on Iberia overhaul
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Anthony Hilton: The most unethical business sectors are revealed in a survey of the press

Breakfast on Tuesday with the Institute of Business Ethics, an organisation founded in 1986 to help spread good practice and assist firms in establishing and embedding a culture of ethical behaviour.
Anthony Hilton: Economists brave enough to debunk our cherished beliefs
Anthony Hilton: The fraud that took eight years to discover
OUTLOOK: Surely floods will force MPs to wake up to the dangers of a greater catastrophe
OUTLOOK: Standard warning underlines the stark choice for Scotland
Vladislav Inozemtsev: How the EU could wake up from its economic coma and restore Europe's influence in the world
OUTLOOK: RBS makes the worst excesses of a Turner Prize look pretty
Jim Armitage: The hysteria's started again – AO World has been hugely overhyped
Jim Armitage: An iron will is needed to back the steel makers
OUTLOOK: Co-operative is suffering from betrayal of a legacy
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A mobile-connected toothbrush on show in Barcelona

Mobile World Congress: Wear it, drive it, see through it - the ‘internet of things’ is almost here

Gideon Spanier see the potential for mobile technology on display at a trade show in Barcelona
A fine and a slap on the wrist for the City crooks
David Clarke: Villains choose 'safe' London to launder their dirty money
Where are the guardians of the City?
Pingit is no gimmick: Can pay, will pay – with a money transfer app
The Week Ahead: Primark may come to the rescue as ABF faces a struggle over sugar
What the Sunday papers said
Which apps will become WhatsApps? After the billion-dollar purchase of the messaging service, a guide to the best UK tech firms
Bags of growth ahead for Mulberry
Ruia brothers under fire for move to delist Essar Energy
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Market Report: It is hard to imagine what could prevent a test of the Footsie all-time highs

Mergers and takeover excitement on Wall Street pushed stocks up stateside helping the Footsie to a 14‑year high yesterday.
Small Talk: Long after the news cameras and politicians have moved on from the flood-hit areas many small businesses will still need help
Small Talk: Memo to satirists of sexism - that joke isn’t funny. Consciously or unconsciously, female entrepreneurs are still being held back
Small Talk: The Prompt Payment Code is proving a case of too little, too late as large companies continue to play for time in settling invoices
David Prosser: EU cash on the Horizon for innovators
David Prosser: German lessons for British firms
David Prosser: The booming FinTech 50 businesses are exploring the use of new technologies – and many are British
SMEs ‘still not getting help’ on loan schemes
Small Talk: We need venture capitalists or a brave Business Bank to put up the money if Britain wants to have a Twitter of its very own
Small Talk: RBS let companies down on lending but so did most banks
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Market Report: Sherborne Investors builds 10% stake in Electra Private Equity

Ed Bramson’s Sherborne Investors is back – but is activism or passivism his game?
Market Report: Short squeeze at miner Kazakhmys pushes stock up
Market Report: Elliott Capital has now amassed more than 10 per cent of Alliance Trust
Market Report: Shine comes off Egyptian gold miner Centamin
Market Report: Shares jump for Intellectual property specialist IP Group
Market Report: Analysts played down fears of action against the 'crack cocaine' of gambling, fixed-odds betting machines
Market Report: Stand-out performer Avanti soars 20.25p
Market Report: Activist investors SpringOwl placed a bet and bought 6 per cent of Bwin
Market Report: Improving sentiment helped the FTSE 100 soar 72.38 points to 6,736
Market Report: Investors spooked as Vodafone admits spending £1.9bn to renew spectrum rights in Delhi
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A mobile-connected toothbrush on show in Barcelona

The ‘internet of things’ is almost here

This is the year wireless technology connects everyday objects and appliances to the web
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A fine and a slap on the wrist for the City crooks

New system means firms guilty of bribery or fraud will be able to do deals to avoid prosecution, Nick Kochan reports
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Strong checks are needed to stop the City attracting fraudsters

Where are the guardians of the City?

Amid all its wealth, the City has become a global haven for hiding ill-gotten gains
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Merkel will be welcomed with full honours and for good reason: our two countries need each other

Germany exemplifies economic virtue and we exemplify economic vice, says Hamish McRae
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Political repression is generating a dangerously high democracy deficit, says Satyajit Das
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Two Nations:

The North is still not feeling this recovery – and the Conservatives are likely to pay for that at the polls, says David Blanchflower
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Jan Koum chose to sign the Facebook deal near the Social Services office where he used to collect food stamps

From poverty to billions in Silicon Valley:

The co-founder of WhatsApp is suddenly worth $6.8bn
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Why is Facebook paying a fortune for WhatsApp?

It is hard not to conclude that the $19bn price is from another planet. That planet is called Silicon Valley, says Mark McSherry
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Ravi Ruia (pictured) and his brother Shashi’s empire spans steel to shipping and energy and employs 73,000 worldwide

Ruia brothers under fire for move to delist Essar

The backlash over the move has shone the spotlight on brothers who, despite their billionaire lifestyles, still share an office. Andrew Buncombe reports
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Language learning, above, is part of the student visa process – and ETS was accused of fraud in its testing

Watch your language: The Tories' u-turn on testers

In opposition, they attacked the failures of US giant ETS- but in Government, they kept faith with disastrous consequences, says Jim Armitage
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