IDG News Service - A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies. Sponsored by The Partnership for New York City Fund and Accenture, the FinTech Innovation Lab seeks novel technologies ...
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Russia's state-owned Rosneft has signed two loan agreements with a group of international banks for a total of $16.8 billion to finance acquisition of BP's 50% stake in Anglo-Russian TNK-BP, the company said Monday. "Pursuant to these ...
More than two-thirds of smartphone owners have not yet adopted mobile banking apps because of security concerns, a survey has revealed. By contrast, only 14% of those surveyed by security firm Metaforic said that security concerns were ...
Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
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Network Rail chief information officer (CIO) Susan Cooklin has taken on the added responsibility for finance and HR shared services. The expanded role, which has officially commenced on 30 November, sees Cooklin’s team expand from ...
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Java's recent security woes are not scaring off developers, who don't see Java as any more vulnerable than any other platform. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Java," says Gonzalo Diethelm, in charge of architecture and development ...
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Vodafone is the latest UK technology company to invest in start-up technology businesses in London. The mobile giant will open a new technology and incubation centre in East London, an area dubbed as Tech City due to its proximity to the ...
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Aluminium tray maker The Nicholl Group has completed a restructure of its manufacturing network that has involved moving production to the UK from a German facility The business has ended production at its subsidiary Bachmann’s site ...
According to a Barclays Capital survey of producers,consumers,traders and investors,a total of 75%of players in the Chinese base metals market believe that 1H13 will see better economic conditions than the second half of 2012.Iin a similar ...
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Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH Corp.) and The Warnaco Group Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which PVH will acquire Warnaco and holders of Warnaco common stock will receive $51.75 in ...
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Cisco today announced another acquisition with the purchase of policy control firm BroadHop. BroadHop is the 11th buy that Cisco has made this year as it continues to bolster its portfolio of networking products. BroadHop aims its ...
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US-based Baker Hughes on Tuesday became the second large-capital oil service company in as many weeks to issue a warning of lower fourth-quarter earnings because of weaker North American and international activity. Baker Hughes' North ...
Cambridge, England, 14 December 2012--MP Real Estate, acting on behalf of Ignis Asset Management, have secured a sale of The Platinum Building on St John’s Innovation Park, Cambridge, to St John’s College, Cambridge for ...
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Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own ...
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The total value spend of Near Field Cummunication (NFC) mobile payments will rise from $4 billion in 2012 to $191 billion in 2017, breaking the $100 billion mark in 2016. Despite Apple rejecting NFC for its latest smartphone, the iPhone ...
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