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25 May '13

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United KingdomCo-op Registration and Bill Cash's Ancestors

To make the primary materials more accessible to fellow co-op law anaraks at this stage in the Parliamentary process, I have put a PDF of extracts from the Financial Services Bill ...

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Global NewsWhen ‘windfalls’ can be shortfalls

AT a dinner party about a century ago George Bernard Shaw reputedly sat next to a rather large and pompous lady, past her prime. "If I offered you a million pounds, would you sleep with me?," Shaw asked. "Why yes, sir," she answered smiling. "And if I offered you one pound, would you do so?," Shaw continued. "Sir! What do you think I am," the lady responded angrily. "We already know that," said the Irish playwright. "All we have to do now ...

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Global NewsMPs launch inquiry into cost of demutualisation

THE 170-strong Parliamentary All-Party Group for Building Societies and Financial Mutuals is to conduct a short inquiry into the true cost of demutualisation. The Group will carry out three hearings in November, during which evidence will be taken from witnesses from within, and outside, the mutual sector to determine whether customers of previously demutualised companies are now paying back their windfalls through higher costs and charges. The Group is now calling for written evidence to be ...

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