Italy-based underwriter Generali Group has entered into an agreement to dispose of its US life reinsurance business to SCOR, in a deal valued at nearly $920m in a grouping of cash and collateral. Under the terms of the transaction, nearly ...
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Aruba Networks’ CEO, Dominic Orr, has promised to “fire back” at Cisco, after he attributed underhand tactics — in which the wireless networking vendor’s competitor apparently jeopardised Aruba contracts with ...
Tian Huiyu, former head of the Beijing branch of China Construction Bank, was formally appointed by the board meeting held on May 31 to be president of China Merchants Bank (CMB), still pending for the regulatory approval. On the same ...
XL Group has unveiled a new Reinsurance Global Emerging Markets unit to benefit development in reinsurance markets. Led by Philippe Rochaix, who is currently in charge of the Latin America Reinsurance operations, the unit will form part ...
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The Wuhan branch of Industrial Bank (SHSE: 601166), together with United Investment Group and Ping An Bank (SHSE: 000001), co-sponsored a CNY 5 billion insurance fund for Hubei Province's intercity rails, the largest such a fund in the rail ...
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More than 18 months ago, Google Wallet was launched on the Sprint cellular network amid hoopla that payment-by-smart-phone technology at cashiers nationwide would replace your plastic debit and credit cards. Since then, AT&T, T-Mobile, and ...
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TMHA president and CEO Akihiko Nimura (left) and TMHA executive vice president and COO Steve Takacs present Adelaide branch manager Hamish Harper with the 2012 Branch of the Year award. Toyota Material Handling's Adelaide branch has taken ...
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Ron McDonald, vice-president and general manager of Liteco, recently made some management announcements involving Brian Dobson, Peter Case, Donna McLaughlin and Mike Hutchings. Effective immediately, Brian Dobson is the manager of ...
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Thanks to Torbram Electric Supply for letting us know it contributed electrical components to support Homes by Avi in the construction of The Stampede Rotary Dream Home. "We were pleased when Hughes and Premium Electric Ltd. approached us ...
With 13 years' experience and development, The China (Yiwu) International Exhibition on Hosiery, Knitting, Dyeing & Finishing Machinery (hereinafter as "YIWU KNITTING") has become a highly internationalized and professional exhibition ...
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GR–NEAM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Re, has set up a new office in London, UK, in an effort to expand its global insurance asset management capabilities. A branch of the company's Dublin subsidiary, the new office is ...
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13 young textile branch professionals have been presented with awards by the Wilhelm Lorch Foundation. Included among the prizewinners is Lena Nussmann, who is working on her bachelor’s degree in cooperation with the Human Solutions ...
Tags: Textile, Manikins, Virtual Fashion
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails Web application development framework in order to compromise Web servers and create a botnet. The Ruby on Rails development team released a security patch for ...
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A transnational team of researchers has reported the first electrically pumped exciton-polariton laser device using an arsenide semiconductor microcavity [Christian Schneider et al, Nature, vol. 497, p348, 2013]. The team was variously ...
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Coles has been a focus of the TWU's road transport campaign. Truck drivers and their employers presented a united front at the TWU National Council in Darwin in their calls for a greater focus on road safety in the supply chain. ARTIO ...
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