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Nov 2014
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UK admits defeat on bonus cap, insider t...

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Patrick Jenkins is joined by Sam Fleming, Emma Dunkley and Michael Stothard to discuss the UK decision to drop its challenge to the EU bonus cap, the latest developments at BNP Paribas, where top executives are being investigated for alleged insider trading, and a torrid week for RBS which was fined for an IT systems failure and revealed it got its figures wrong in the recent stress tests

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