Top Interest Rate Headlines 12-15-10: First French Islamic bond seen early 2011

First French Islamic bond seen early 2011 
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RBS 'blocks FSA publication of bank investigation' 
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Federal Debt and Interest Costs 
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NAHB Housing Index Holds at 16 in December 
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Moody's Threatens Spain Downgrade
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Advantage Futures Partners With ELXfutures to Offer FCM Services
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SunGard Supports CME Group Cleared Interest Rate Swaps
Press Release
SunGard has enhanced its Stream GMI post-trade listed derivatives solution to provide processing and accounting support for CME Group cleared interest rate swaps, which it began clearing in October 2010.
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Bank regulators back new capital plan
By Dave Clarke
Bank holding companies would not be allowed to dip below the strict capital standards of their federally insured bank units, under a proposal issued by U.S. bank regulators on Tuesday.
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What did banks do? It's not clear. What do they pay? They can't say. Why did they fail? It's a secret
Guardian Unlimited
The banking collapse is a tale of opacity and confusion. Now even the public report into RBS's collapse is confidential. We need transparency in banking, and we need it now Fred the Shred could be at liberty to drive another bank into oblivion. Sir Fred Goodwin, the former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, has escaped any regulatory penalty over the near collapse of the once mighty Caledonian ...
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Goldman hires former Fed official as regulatory chief
By Aline van Duyn in New York
FT.com / Financials
Goldman Sachs has hired a former top Federal Reserve Bank of New York regulator as banks look to exert some influence over the writing of new rules for profitable privately traded swaps markets. Theo Lubke, a former senior vice president at the Fed who was tasked with cutting risk in the over-the-counter derivatives market, started work this month at the bank's New York office as chief regulatory reform officer in the securities division, said a Goldman Sachs official.
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Incoming HSBC UK chairman Sandy Flockhart attacks 'unfair' bail-outs of RBS and Citibank
AFP Telegraph Finance News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance
HSBC's senior UK banker has criticised "unfair" and anti-competitive government bail-outs of rivals such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Citibank, and said business taxes need to fall if the ...
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Credit Default Swaps On General Motors Start Trading
By Katy Burne Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs started quoting prices on credit default swaps tied to senior unsecured General Motors Co. (GM) debt on Tuesday, even though the recently revived GM has not yet issued any bonds.
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