The role of World Bank advice was probably more important, but that too is disputed.
Instead of setting out the Bank's advice to the chancellor, who had to decide whether or not to act on it, it will now set out a defence of the Bank's own decisions.
Deutsche Bank also provided financial advice to SoftBank in connection with this transaction.
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The Ulster Bank has issued security advice to staff working in a branch close to the trades union rally taking place in Belfast city centre.
If we think of the landscape of the financial services industry as a continuum, the first type of firm that many go to for investment advice is a bank .
But in last year's report, the OECD's economists also had some free advice for the Bank of England: with the recovery under way, they said the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) should be getting a move on with rate rises.
That's my translation of the IMF's latest, curious report on the UK, which had some blunt things to say about the state of the economic recovery, and some pointed advice for the Bank of England and the government on how they could make things better.
The central bank convenes a meeting of bank heads and offers some friendly advice on how to do their jobs.
Indeed considering the extent to which Slovakia has drawn from the Western democratic and capitalist playbook, considering how closely and loyally it has followed the advice dispensed by the World Bank, EU, and IMF, I would argue that it has already made quite a lot more progress in economic, political, and judicial reform than Russia can hope to make over the next decade.
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Barclays Bank is closing its branch-based financial advice service, putting 1, 000 jobs at risk.
Mr Arnold is adamant that he will protect the bank's profitability by wooing customers with advice and superior service, not with aggressive pricing.
They say it's all down to advice from the Governor of the Bank of England and by witnessing the debt crisis in Greece.
The Americans have never understood why Germany has not taken their advice and allowed the European Central Bank to behave more like the Fed.
The only reason the bank advanced was that it was acting on the advice of the Federal Reserve.
Rather than take the hits, some of them sued their investment bank for selling them poor products or giving bad advice.
Now 37, Oliver drops in on his half-brother a few times a year while scouring the globe for mega finance deals on which he can give advice as joint global head of UBS Investment Bank's Financial Institutions Group.
IMF, the World Bank and globalisation in general, and that it could all have been so much better if only people had taken his advice when he was chief economist of the World Bank in 1997-2000.
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In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and the bad economic advice the U.S. often gives to Latin American countries.
And with the advice and conditions it attaches to its loans, World Bank lending arguably fosters good economic policy better than the private sector.
One defendant, 32-year-old Ronald Uy, a Vice President and Branch Manager for JPMorgan Chase, allegedly provided advice on how to structure transactions in order to avoid bank reporting requirements.
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The focus is increasingly on country's own efforts to alleviate poverty, with the World Bank - the lead anti-poverty organisation - providing guidance and advice, and at times loans for specific programmes.
The bank said in a statement that the decision to close the High Street advice operation "reflects the emerging trend that customers are increasingly purchasing and managing their investments online".
This latest scheme is, perhaps, an admission that Lazard's business has suffered as cross-border deals have grown in importance, and the bank has lagged in its ability to match this with cross-border advice.
But while Blankfein spent his day playing up his diplomacy in Washington his big bank counterpart, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, was not there to offer his advice.
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John Lamidey, chief executive of the Consumer Financial Association which represents the eight largest payday loan lenders, said most long-term debt was on credit cards and bank overdrafts and he advised anyone with long-term debt to go to Citizens Advice (CAB).
He reiterated advice given by the RNLI to anyone thinking of visiting a beach over the bank holiday.
In their advice and assistance to countries in Southeast Asia, the IMF and the World Bank, to a large extent acting jointly, have devoted a large part of their efforts to banking and corporate sector restructuring.
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