51.  While the body will provide more comprehensive supervision of complex financial groups, it will come at a cost -- especially to Japanese and other non-European banks.

52.  A British financial group won Friday the right to buy Italian first division soccer club Vicenza, submitting the lone bid in an auction in bankruptcy court.

53.  A government payment plan to refund all the savings of depositors in the failed Century National financial group in Jamaica is headed for the courts.

54.  A subsidiary of the financial group Banamex-Accival, Banamex this week announced it will seek a strategic alliance with the California-based Wells Fargo Bank.

55.  ACC is part of the Indian financial group Tata.

56.  All the companies were sold at bitterly contested auctions won by leading Russian banks and financial groups.

57.  Amadeu Azevedo, the National Director for Oil, told The Associated Press the figure was based on expressions of interest from foreign financial groups and oil companies.

58.  Among the six people charged in the Plzen case are Jan Dienstl, director of Motoinvest financial group, and another Motoinvest representative David Knop-Kostka.

59.  Analysts say the number will dwindle further, into as few as five gigantic financial groups.

60.  Arrest orders have also been served for two associates of Lankenau, the former chairman of the Mexican financial group Abaco Grupo Financiero, officials said.