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• UPDATE 2-Singapore lifts spending in new budget, to raise taxes on top earners
  * Singapore won't change policy reducing foreign labour - finmin (Adds details, quotes)
• RBS set to appoint ex-regulator Howard Davies chairman -FT
  LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland is set to appoint Howard Davies as its next chairman, replacing Philip Hampton, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the bank's plans.
• RPT - INSIGHT-Bank of America chips away at brokerage industry truce
  NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - For the last decade, Wall Street brokerages have had a pact not to sue brokers that leave their firms and try to take clients with them. Now Bank of America Merrill Lynch, one of the founding signers of the truce, is taking steps to erode the agreement, industry lawyers say.
• REFILE-INSIGHT-Ten days that shook the euro; how Greece came to the brink
  BRUSSELS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The "rock star" took on the rock. And the rock won.
• Arle Capital freezes sale of Spain's Parques Reunidos -sources
  MADRID/LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The private equity owners of Parques Reunidos have put on ice plans to sell the Spanish zoo, marine and water park operator that could have valued the business at about 2 billion euros, six sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
• BRIEF-3I to invest 105 mln stg in Aspen Pumps
  * To invest in uk-headquartered Aspen Pumps, the global market leader in condensate removal pumps, for an enterprise value of 105 mln stg
• UAE's RAKBANK will raise $300 mln through 2019 bond tap
  DUBAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - United Arab Emirates-based lender National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah (RAKBANK) will raise a further $300 million through a re-opening of its due June 2019 bond, a document from lead arrangers showed.
• MOVES-Berkshire Hathaway, Warburg Pincus, Neuberger Berman
  Feb 23 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Monday. To inform us of other job changes, email [email protected]
• Austrian opposition calls for Hypo bad bank to be declared insolvent
  VIENNA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - A leading Austrian opposition politician has called for a parliamentary investigation into Hypo Alpe Adria's collapse to recommend that the bad bank winding down its assets be declared insolvent to protect taxpayers from mounting costs.
• Buwog says interested in Conwert's German portfolio
  VIENNA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Austrian property group Buwog has no plans to buy competitor Conwert but would be interested in its German real estate portfolio should this be put up for sale, Buwog Chief Executive Daniel Riedl said on Monday.