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* Part of China's push to develop derivatives trading (Updating throughout)

* Bounce back from 2 bln stg annual loss in 2017 (Adds detail from statement, bullet points)

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed a new finance bill into law, officially introducing a series of new taxes, including one on fuel, which have led to public anger and strikes.

Senior minister suggests prime minister could have to rewrite her Chequers Brexit plan

European shares rose strongly at the open on Friday, extending their gains from the previous session as a relief rally due to easing fears of a trade war helped Wall Street hit record highs, while Asian shares also rose further overnight.

China's stock markets surged on Friday before a long holiday weekend, with investor sentiment boosted by hopes that a government effort to boost domestic demand could help offset effects of an escalating trade war.

Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Friday that it was aware of the use of UK-registered companies in connection with Danske Bank's Estonian branch which is at the centre of a money-laundering scandal and had opened an investigation.

China's primary money rates rose this week as demand for cash increased ahead of two national holidays and regular corporate tax payments, and as a high concentration of local government bond issuance tightened overall liquidity. The volume-weighted average rate of the benchmark seven-day repo traded in the...

Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit proposals were declared dead by the British media on Friday after what they cast as a humiliation at the hands of European Union leaders at an informal summit in Salzburg.

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Britain's NatWest on Friday said in a tweet that it was aware of "some issues on its online and mobile banking services" and is working to fix them.