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Protesters took over the Finance Ministry building in Athens Friday morning, hanging a giant banner from the roof calling for a general strike, just as Greece wraps up tough negotiations with international officials on new austerity measures.

Citi announced that it has once again been named Best Global Supply Chain Finance Provider by Global Finance Magazine, as part of its annual “Supply Chain Provider” rankings.

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New Mountain Finance Corporation announced today the closing of its initial offering of 7,272,727 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $13.75 per share for total gross proceeds of approximately $100 million.

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TORONTO - Ontario's Finance Minister says he's happy that a Canadian group is remaining in the takeover race for TMX Group despite the exchange operator's rejection of its bid and the "regulatory hurdles" it faces.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble backs his French counterpart Christine Lagarde as the EU candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, a German weekly reported Saturday.

Housing Finance Ltd. , Kenya’s only publicly traded mortgage company, said investment in housing may slow in 2012 ahead of an election that may aggravate political tensions that exploded into violence three years ago.

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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will stay in his job, as expected, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces his new cabinet later on Wednesday, a government source said.

European finance ministers will huddle Monday for discussions certain to centre on a second Greek bailout, while anointing an Italian to head the pivotal European Central Bank.

Loretta Fredy Bush , the former chief executive officer of Xinhua Finance Inc. , denies that she was part of a $50 million insider-trading scheme that defrauded investors and U.S.

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Euro zone finance ministers are likely to back a bailout for Portugal on Monday and tell Greece it must deliver on agreed fiscal and privatization targets if it wants new emergency financing next year.