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Frankfurt as a Financial Centre June 13, 2011 4:12 pm Office market: Construction tracks the health of banking By Ed Hammond The lofty canyons of Frankfurt’s financial district are once again reverberating with the rumble of heavy machinery. Caterpillar-tracked piling rigs plunge drill heads into the soil, boring the deep holes for the concrete and steel foundations from which the city’s next generation of skyscrapers will rise. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ed5ea1c8-955e-11e0-a648-00144feab49a.html#axzz2PXw36Vqx

Europe Warns US to Speed Up Bank Reform Published: Wednesday, 1 Jun 2011 | 4:41 AM ET By: Peter Spiegel, Financial Times The European Union’s top financial regulator has warned the Obama administration that it must speed up and toughen its new banking rules in order to prevent American banks from having unfair advantages over their European counterparts.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d2828764-4105-11e0-bf62-00144feabdc0.html February 25, 2011 11:06 pm Tesco reviews property strategy By Andrea Felsted, Senior Retail Correspondent Philip Clarke, the incoming chief executive of Tesco, is examining the group’s property strategy in a move that some analysts believe could herald a further multibillion-pound disposal programme.

Property Frankfurt: Grounds for optimism in spite of upheaval By James Wilson in Frankfurt Published: October 2 2009 16:02 | Last updated: October 2 2009 16:02 Frankfurt’s property market professionals are surprisingly optimistic about the city’s prospects in spite of the inevitable upheaval that the deep banking crisis has caused in Germany’s financial capital. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0b8a95a-ad13-11de-9caf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2PXw36Vqx