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A former HSBC executive has won a British court battle against the U.S. government over his extradition, according to the judge's ruling published on Tuesday.

The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday backed the creation of a federal charter for financial technology firms, in a boon for online and peer-to-peer lenders that have long complained the current state-by-state licensing regime is expensive and outdated.

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British PM breaks away from holiday to meet French president at his summer retreat

Britain's exports of financial services to the European Union hit a record high last year, highlighting the need for the City to preserve access to the bloc after Brexit, industry officials said on Tuesday.

Lebanon's economy is fragile, unsustainable and needs the state to enact reforms, a senior World Bank official said on Tuesday as the country neared three months without a government since parliamentary elections in May.

Gulf state maintains spending despite cost of embargo by Arab quartet

Brazil's benchmark Bovespa equities index tumbled over 1.5 percent on Tuesday, as poor quarterly results in the financial services and retail sectors and a federal police price-fixing probe hit shares of companies including Ultrapar and Cosan. Among the firms that reported disappointing second quarter results on...

The first trial of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe got underway on Tuesday with Paul Manafort, a former chairman of U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, facing charges that he hid tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans.

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