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Slowdown in lending acts as warning
Lending to companies and households fell in April for the first time since records began more than a decade ago, in a sign that the UK economy remains in the grip of the credit crunch

Dollar falls vs euro in Asia ahead of US payrolls

MONEY MARKETS-Euro Libor edges up before ECB bond plans - Reuters

Barclays to close final salary pension scheme
LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays has proposed closing its final-salary pension scheme for British staff, which a union said will affect 18,000 employees.

Partial ‘amnesty’ offered to tax evaders
A renewed push against evasion by Revenue & Customs aims to prise open the undisclosed offshore accounts of ‘potentially hundreds of financial institutions’ while offering a partial ‘amnesty’ to those who come forward voluntarily