Finance Chronicle

BRUSSELS, Sept 3 – Franco-Belgian financial services group Dexia plans to settle the final part of a 600 million euro cost savings plan in the coming days and present it to workers in the middle of the month.

NOVATO — Aircraft and engine lessor Willis Lease Finance Corp.

Re: “Look who’s bankrolling the Tea Party,” Aug. 31 Frank Rich column. It’s remarkable that the people who clamored for “campaign finance reform”

CALGARY/Winnipeg, Manitoba – Chinese investors, among other unidentified parties, have approached at least one big Canadian pension manager about mounting a bid for Canada’s Potash Corp I to rival BHP Billiton’s $39 billion hostile offer.

The Dutch Finance Ministry Thursday acknowledged it was defrauded out of more than 160,000 euros earlier this year by an employee of the ministry unit that handles the state’s financing needs.

MANAMA: The Islamic finance sector is set to become a $2 trillion industry in the next three to five years from its current $1trn mark in spite of the financial slowdown.

THE government may narrow its budget deficit next year to the smallest since 2008 as economic growth accelerates, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuwait Finance House Bhd has launched a personal financing product to facilitate Muslim customers make pilgrimages to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah.

* Cigna: departure not caused by financial, ethics dispute

LONDON – Citigroup’s private banking arm has set up a global unit to target family offices, organisations that manage the financial affairs of rich dynasties, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.