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Swiss banking giant UBS AG reported a 15 percent jump Tuesday in second-quarter net profit compared to a year ago, driven by strong results from its core wealth management and trimmed-down investment banking franchises despite a tough market environment.

Greece wants the European Central Bank's health checks on its four biggest banks later this year to take account of their new restructuring plans rather than being based on last year's balance sheet data alone, a Greek finance ministry official said on Monday.

Why tote around a first-generation iPhone when you have a 5s at home? Or drive a beat-up old Chevy when there's a new Corvette in the garage? In the world of exchange-traded funds, that's just what investors are doing.

Lloyds, one of the world's largest banks, on Monday became the sixth financial firm sanctioned in the international rate-rigging scandal.

Lloyds Banking Group says it will pay 218 million pounds to U.S. and British authorities to settle allegations it manipulated benchmark interest rates.

The Bank of Montreal report, titled "Living to 100: The Four Keys to Longevity," found that 74 per cent of those recently polled foresee medical costs as their biggest expense in their senior years.

The chief executive and founder of education group Navitas says it's highly unlikely there will be any nasty surprises among the 25 other university partners for which the company runs pathways colleges as a bridge to university education, after its dumping by Macquarie University.

National Australia Bank has sold a slice of its British commercial real estate loans portfolio for STG625 million .

The kiwi traded at 85.63 US cents at 8am from 85.51 cents on Friday in New York and 85.73 cents at 5pm in Wellington.

He was 76. Murray says Schell left a mark on Seattle as one of the city's "builders."

Summary Software giant TCS's market value zoomed Rs 31,790.15 crore to Rs 5,10,238.84 crore, becoming the biggest gainer in the top-10 companies list.

Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave its presidential nomination to Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, who knew he would lose: Americans were not going to have a third president in 14 months.

A deal to resolve a U.S. regulator's claims against Goldman Sachs Group Inc over mortgage-backed securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac leading up to the financial crisis could cost the bank between $800 million and $1.25 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Lakeland Financial Corp. on Friday reported second-quarter earnings of $11.3 million, or 68 cents per diluted common share, a 22 percent increase over the $9.2 million, or 56 cents a share, posted for the same three months of 2013.

The retirement savings industry wants you to instead think about the monthly paycheck the account can generate.

Texas tycoon Sam Wyly and the estate of his late brother Charles should pay damages totaling $1.41 billion for their role in a scheme that hid trades in companies they controlled using offshore trusts, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.

McCarthy is returning to the agency after serving for five years as vice president of public finance for Stephens Inc., a privately held, independent financial services firm.

Saying more funding is needed to save wild areas in Silicon Valley amid steady development pressure, the board of the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority has placed a parcel tax on the November ballot.

WASHINGTON -- Federal law enforcement and intelligence authorities said they are increasingly struggling to conduct court-ordered wiretaps on suspects because of a surge in chat services, instant-messaging and other online communications that lack the technical means to be intercepted.

Lakeland Financial Corp. today reported record second-quarter earnings of $11.3 million, or 68 cents per diluted common share, a 22 percent increase from the $9.2 million, or 56 cents a share, posted for the same three months of 2013.