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AIK bank offered about 395 million euros, according to the daily newspaper, citing unofficial sources.

FinMin: Slovenia will stay comparably favourable for capital

Maribor, 2 March - Finance Minister Andrej Bertoncelj has told the newspaper Večer that despite the planned increase in schedular taxation, Slovenia will stay a "comparably favourable country", with capital still being less taxed than on average in the OECD countries.

Slovenia's money-laundering office has opened an investigation into claims by opposition parties that the country's biggest state-owned bank, Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), may have laundered nearly €1bn from Iran between 2008 and 2010, breaking an international embargo and failing to enforce rules on the financing of terrorism.

Shepp, who recorded with Coltrane and was described by the festival's artistic director Pedro Costa as one of the most expressive saxophonists in jazz history, will be joined on the main stage of the Cankarjev dom arts centre by legendary bassist Reggie Workman, who also performed with Coltrane.

An employee of an NLB Bank branch in Skopje has stolen 2.27 million euros from the bank's vault, the Macedonian Interior Ministry has confirmed.

According to the police, the 40-year-old suspect, B.S., put the cash in plastic bags and walked out of the building, without raising suspicion of either his colleagues or the security.

BELGRADE - The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has said in a release that the country’s banking sector reported a profit of RSD 8.1 billion, or about EUR 70 million, in the first quarter (Q1) of 2014, down 25 percent against a year earlier.

BELGRADE - Top five banks in Serbia recorded net gains of RSD 26.17 billion at the end of 2013, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) released.

On the other hand, the latest NBS quarterly report on the banking sector shows that five banks which operated with least success at the end of 2013 recorded net losses of RSD 28.25 billion.

DUBROVNIK - A total of 21 companies operating in the region, including Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS), MK Group, Nestle, NLB Bank and Agrokor, have signed a cooperation charter in Dubrovnik saying they will employ young people in the next three years.