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An organization that in 1997 took control of regulation (making sure that laws are obeyed) of the British financial services industry from the nine separate organizations which previously had been responsible for banking, insurance etc.
Systems whereby a limit is imposed on the amount of greenhouse gas that companies may produce, and by which they are allowed to trade t...
If a financial institution sells asset-backed securities, it buys loans from lenders such as banks and uses the loans as backing for bo...
The Bric grouping – Brazil, Russia, India and China – has become a shorthand for the rise of emerging markets in the global economy. An...