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Feb 15 (Reuters) - Virgin Money on Thursday appointed
former HSBC executive Irene Dorner as chairwoman,
creating a rare female duo at the top of one of Britain's FTSE
350 listed companies.
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Feb 15 (Reuters) - Wyndham Worldwide Corp will sell
its European vacation rental business to private equity firm
Platinum Equity for about $1.3 billion, the U.S. hotelier said
on Thursday, six months into a strategic review process for the
business.
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LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The number of hedge funds focused
on trading cryptocurrencies more than doubled in the four months
to Feb. 15, despite sharp falls in the value of the virtual
coins in recent weeks, data from fintech research house
Autonomous NEXT showed on Thursday.
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COLOMBO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended
firmer on Thursday, a day after hitting a record low, as
exporters and banks sold dollars amid signs of political
uncertainty easing, dealers said.
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CHICAGO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Allan Roth has decades of
experience constructing retirement investment portfolios for
clients, but he never predicts the direction of the stock
market.
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LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 15 (Reuters) - China's new crude
futures contract faces a mountain of obstacles to overcome if it
is to establish itself as a viable benchmark for trading with
the world's largest oil importer.
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Feb 15 (Reuters) - U.S. hotelier Wyndham Worldwide Corp
said on Thursday it would sell its European vacation
rental business to private equity firm Platinum Equity for about
$1.3 billion.
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MUMBAI, Feb 15 (Reuters) - India's Punjab National Bank
, the second-biggest state-run lender, stunned the
country's financial sector when it announced this week it had
discovered fraudulent transactions worth $1.77 billion at a
single branch in Mumbai.
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Report highlights struggle to carry out ‘core purpose’ of developing their collections
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