The suspected fraud came to light when the art dealer, from Essex, received bank letters stating that the cards used to buy the images did not have the authorisation of the cardholders.

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Ricci referred to reputational risk, rather than simply stating the bank wanted to do the ethical thing.

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The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England all rejected Iceland's requests, stating, according to the Central Bank of Iceland, that the Icelandic financial system was too large relative to the size of the economy for plausible swap lines to be effective.

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When Mervyn King recently said that the fall in the exchange rate was helpful the governor of the Bank of England was merely stating an obvious truth.

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India tossed the joint development bank idea out there to colleagues last month, stating that the goal was to promote mutual investment and trade among the five countries.

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Speaking at a gathering of bank bosses in Frankfurt, Josef Ackermann said he was "stating the obvious".

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