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Germany has unveiled plans for an alternative to the Tobin tax in the form of European stamp duty on shares.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss Stephen Hester is being urged to turn down a £963,000 bonus in shares awarded to him by the bank.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is to urge the coalition today to "go further and faster" in implementing an increase in the income tax threshold.

More than 100 London investment bankers have launched a claim in the High Court for £42m in unpaid bonuses.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) once again voted unanimously to maintain interest rates at 0.5% and keep the quantitative easing (QE) programme at £275bn in January, despite fears inflation may fall below target levels.

Senior executives of Dalton Strategic Partnership (DSP) are set to purchase equity in the firm following the death of founder Andrew Dalton in April last year.

OMAM's Christine Johnson explains why low growth and gradual disinflation will be good for fixed cashflows, and what this means for corporate bond investors.

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ON UK INCOME

Warnings on profits issued by UK firms saw the biggest leap in a decade in Q4 2011, driven by difficulties in the retail sector, according to Ernst & Young.