Greek debt crisis talks continue in Brussels
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Kamal Ahmed
Business editor
Image source, PAIt was launched with much fanfare in April last year - a £38bn plan to bring Britain's railways kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.
The "largest modernisation of the railways since Victorian times" was at the heart of the government's long term economic plan.
Well, today all bets are off as to how much of the ambitious plan will be delivered. And when.
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Kevin Peachey
Online personal finance reporter
Debt management firms wrap up a customer's debts, then draw up a plan to pay off creditors, often taking a cut from the debtor's repayments each month. After a year-long review, the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says the advice some firms give is unacceptably poor. All firms are now facing a "tough examination" from the FCA to get a licence to operate. One trade body has told me it expects the sector to shrink from about 200 firms to "no more than 20 or 30" as a result.
BBC personal finance reporter Kevin Peachey tweets:
This from David Madden at IG index.
Quote Message"Whatever the outcome of the Greece meeting, it's going to end with a bang and the markets are silently building up volatility, and it's either going to end in a hallelujah moment or Armageddon."
David Madden, Market Analyst, IG
Sony Kapoor is from the European thinktank Re-Define. He says that the European Central Bank (ECB) will not cut off funding to Greek banks without a decision from the European Council. He tweets:
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