Columbia Sportswear Company's board of directors voted to expand the board to 11 members from 10 previously and elected banker Malia H. Wasson to serve in the newly-created position, effective March 19, 2015. The board also nominated ...
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Recent soft economic data including falling property prices have many investors worried about a growth slowdown in China, but Platinum Asset Management sees plenty of investment opportunities. The funds manager said in a note to investors ...
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Commenting on the announcements made by Ed Miliband, Alex Jackman, Head of Policy at the Forum of Private Business, said, “This is a significant speech from Ed Miliband that sets out the emerging policy proposals from the Labour ...
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Gemalto have announced a global business partnership with IBM for its latest Ezio eBanking security platform. The server platform has been further updated with the ability to support a wider range of end-user solutions. It has been ...
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IBM yesterday announced an agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, saying the purchase is a key part of a broader mobile-security strategy to provide assurance in transactions conducted via devices such as iPhones and Android ...
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Mizuho Corporate Bank (China), Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese commercial lender Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., has gained regulatory approval to expand registered capital by CNY 3 billion. People in the know disclosed in an ...
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After eluding police for 10 days last year, a dragnet in central China’s Henan province finally closed in on Li Mingzhong, the head of a BOC Fullerton Community Bank branch who had absconded with more than US$16 million in rural ...
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ManageEngine announced it's only weeks away from a general availability launch of its enterprise application search tool, Enterprise Database, aimed at the mid-range and larger enterprise markets. Sridhar Iyengar, Vice President, Product ...
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently applauded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) for introducing bipartisan legislation to encourage residential construction lending, spur job growth and keep the ...
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Andy Kemshall, co-founder and technical director at SecurEnvoy, speaks up about voice recognition as a security tool Banking is one of the most security-sensitive sectors there is. In March, it was announced that UK bank fraud had risen ...
Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. Over 150,000 computers, ...
U.S. government agencies will need the help of companies while developing a set of cybersecurity standards that President Obama has called for in an executive order signed last month, administration officials said. The Obama ...
On average, construction companies only spend 1.35 percent of their revenues on information technology, placing the industry last behind 14 others in a report done by Gartner Research. Construction companies with revenue of $250 million ...
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The U.S. Mission in Iraq, through the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Financial Development Project, is working with the Iraqi banking industry to help banks improve best practices. The U.S. Mission ...
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IDG News Service-The notorious malware known as the Conficker worm still infects computers,a sort of wild horse with no rider,but investigators appear no closer to finding its creator. Also known as"Downandup,"Conficker was discovered in ...
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