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Tony Musulin. Photo: Getty Images

Guard 'simply drives off with cash' in €11m heist

Saturday November 07 2009

THE biggest French cash robbery in recent years was a non-violent affair: Tony Musulin, a security guard, apparently simply drove off with the money while his two colleagues were inside the central Lyons branch of the Banque de France.

The Bank of England is pictured in London. Photo: Carl de Souza, Getty Images

BoE's plan to buy assets with new cash may prevent deflation

Saturday March 14 2009

BANK of England policy maker Kate Barker said the bank's decision to buy assets with newly created money -- often called "printing money" -- is necessary to prevent deflation arising from Britain's deep recession.

Sarkozy furious after being kept in the dark over fraud

Saturday January 26 2008

Heads are likely to roll high in the French financial establishment after it emerged yesterday that President Sarkozy was kept in the dark for three days over the €4.9bn fraud by a rogue trader at the Societe Generale bank.

Hunt for €5bn rogue trader

Friday January 25 2008

A rogue trader accused of the world's biggest banking fraud was on the run last night, after fake accounts with losses of nearly €5bn were uncovered.

The Thoughts of Trichet

Monday April 02 2007

In an interview with the Irish Independent, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet discusses public perceptions of the euro, ECB transparency and the problems faced by high-growth countries like Ireland and Spain with booming housing markets.

French want to have their cake and eat it, that's easy populism

Thursday April 05 2007

Just before the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the French military attache in Berlin observed that Prussia was not a country which had an army; it was an army which had a country.

ECB arrives on cue with a dose of reality - a 0.25pc rate rise

Brendan Keenan Thursday May 10 2007

TODAY will contain quite a little symbolism, as the European Central Bank announces a rise in interest rates in Dublin, two weeks before an Irish general election.

Interest rate rises from ECB set to accelerate

Tuesday July 18 2006

A RAPID rise in interest rates over the rest of the year looked more likely yesterday, with signs that the eurozone economy may have accelerated in the second three months of the year.

French want to have their cake and eat it, that's easy populism

Thursday April 05 2007

Lower interest rates, a cheaper currency and curtailing ECB powers are good electoral fodder, but successful economies are not built on these

The Thoughts of Trichet

Monday April 02 2007

Speaking to the Irish Independent, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet discusses public perceptions of the euro, ECB transparency and the problems faced by high-growth countries.