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<description>Tom Hayes, former yen-Libor trader who worked for UBS and Citigroup, charged with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud in long-running Libor probe</description>
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<description>Chairman of France’s largest listed mutual bank says its flotation in 2001 enabled the group to develop without losing its ‘mutual DNA’</description>
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<title>The deals that left Co-op in crisis</title>
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<description>Britannia transaction looked exciting on paper, but four years on has clearly wreaked havoc not just on mutual bank but on integrity of whole group</description>
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<title>Co-op Bank restructuring marks end of an era</title>
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<title>Q&amp;A: The Co-op plan for investors</title>
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<description>The BoE’s twice-yearly systemic risk poll found that financial managers had become more worried about online threats and instability in the housing market</description>
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