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A global dirty money watchdog said on Friday it had given Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to comply with international norms after which it would urge all its members to apply counter-measures.

Pakistan has until February to improve its counter-terror financing operations in line with an internationally agreed action plan or face actions against it, a global watchdog said on Friday.

A global dirty money watchdog said on Friday it had given Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to comply with international norms after which it would urge all its members to apply counter-measures.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia's pension arm Colonial First State has been hit with a second lawsuit in two days, this time for allegedly charging excessive fees to customers which were used to pay ongoing commissions to financial advisers.

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Most Southeast Asian stock markets closed lower on Friday after weak growth readings from China, while Indonesian stocks extended gains to a sixth day boosted by strength in the financial and consumer sectors. China, the region's largest trading partner, grew at its weakest pace in...

China's securities regulator on Friday scrapped profitability requirements in merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving publicly traded companies in an effort to facilitate restructuring in a slowing economy.

* Rouble, OFZ bonds gain on rate cut expectations (Adds detail, quotes, market reaction)

Egypt, the world's largest wheat buyer, has enough strategic reserves of the grain to cover its consumption needs until February, the Supply Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Polish regulator UOKiK said on Friday it would investigate the way prices at Jeronimo Martins' Polish retail chain Biedronka are presented to clients.