Topic: Basel

Roche to cut jobs after setbacks for drugs

Subscription page Roche on Friday confirmed it would be making significant job cuts to tailor spending to tougher markets, but said details would...
In a few months, Art Basel will swoop into town, and critics will oohh and ahhh over the latest and greatest contemporary art. But in the other 50...

Football hooligans told to stay home

FOOTBALL hooligans living in Bolton have been warned not to travel to Basel for the European Championship qualifying match between Switzerland and...

Roche signals research job cuts

Subscription page Roche on Friday confirmed speculation about significant job cuts to tailor its spending to tougher market conditions, but said it...

Banks, relax - until the next crisis

Every economic crisis gives rise to suggestions for radical reform . But these suggestions typically last only as long as the crisis. Once the...

National Bank’s candid approach pays dividends

Sometimes, it pays to be candid. . . National Bank of Canada NA-T and its shareholders have found that out over the past week, after a refreshingly...

New Basel proposals bring no comfort to trade finance

GENEVA (Reuters) - Recent amendments from the Basel Committee on banking regulation do not appear to meet the concern of practitioners of trade finance that proposed new rules could make the vital loans scarcer and more expensive.Bankers and lawyers are s

JPMorgan sees small impact from capital reform

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co expects a measure of its capital strength to fall slightly under the latest proposals from banking supervisors, according to a quarterly filing with regulators.The Basel Committee of global banking supervisors
A recent United Nations report suggests that in some countries the amount of electronic waste, a.k.a "e-waste" or Waste Electrical and Electronic...
Police in Switzerland were less than impressed on Saturday when motorists helped themselves to melons that fell out the back of a Spanish truck and prompted a traffic jam.Drivers immediately behind the lorry "reacted well" when the rear doors or the lorry