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Thanks in part to banks’ big investments in security technology, you’re probably not dialing for disaster with mobile banking. But there are still ways to get stung.

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Traders said the broker implicated had allegedly accounted for at least half of the unusual market activity, with the rest the result of others chasing the rapid rises

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A pool of ABN AMRO assets left over from the carve-up of the Dutch group following its 2007 takeover by Fortis, Royal Bank of Scotland and Spain’s Santander , has negative equity of 6.5 billion euros (5.6 billion pounds), the Dutch Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.

Unwanted credit card cheques will be banned and a new post created to help consumers get refunds, the government says.

The US economy shed another 467,000 jobs last month, signalling aggressive government stimulus measures are failing to unshackle the labour force from the grips of the recession, official figures showed

London-based oil brokerage PVM Oil Associates is understood to have parted company with one of its senior long-standing derivatives brokers after allegedly detecting a large unauthorised Brent ICE position on his book