Bitcoin scored several big wins this week, including endorsements from U.S. federal officials and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, signalling its progress toward wider acceptance. Bitcoin has battled concerns about volatility, ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Bit-Part, Gaining Momentum
When a Chinese engineering firm sets off to build a road or a dam in a distant country, a Chinese bank is usually not far behind them. Bank branches bearing Chinese characters can be found on the streets of Lima and Warsaw, as well as Paris ...
Food and non-food volume sales are falling, indicating ordinary people are not feeling the benefits of economic recovery in Europe and the UK yet, according to market analyst Information Resources (IRI). Commenting on the firm’s ...
UK-based life and general insurer Aviva has embarked on a conditional agreement to divest its entire 39% stake in Eurovita Assicurazioni, to New York-based private equity firm JC Flowers, in a cash transaction valued at approximately ...
Tags: Aviva Agrees, Insurer
Zurich Insurance, a Switzerland-based multi-line insurance provider, is planning to scrap all of its 700 life insurance agents in Hong Kong by the end of the year, as its focuses to sell insurance products from agents to brokers and ...
Tags: Zurich Insurance, Life Insurance
Calling it a "game changer" for West Virginia, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced that Odebrecht will build an ethane cracker and three polyurethane plants in the Mid-Ohio Valley region. Odebrecht is an established international petrochemical ...
Tags: Shale, oil, gas, processing, facility, Wood County
Conventional third party controls are no longer sufficient to cover the ever-expanding attack surface presented by web and mobile applications developed by service vendors and/or commercial software providers. The current third party ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Security vendor Gemalto has teamed up with Byblos Bank to launch the Middle East's first bio-sourced EMV payment cards in Lebanon. Working with Gemalto's local partner Unilux Cards, Byblos Bank plans to migrate 80% of its entire banking ...
Tags: software, Computer Products
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) announces the TRITON GeoStreamer® Full Azimuth survey, a new solution to complex imaging problems in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. PGS offer this survey as the next important advance in tailored ...
The joint initiative between TOPMAN and Fashion East returns in January 2014 to showcase the most exciting menswear designers. This is the ninth year that the original supporters of London menswear talent ...
When the world was digesting news of Detroit’s bankruptcy in July, the biggest ever by a municipality in the US, attention in China turned to the highly indebted government of Jiangsu province. Provincial, city and county authorities ...
Tags: Bond Markets, Local Officials
Ironshore International announced that its Pembroke Managing Agency Limited (“Pembroke”) is offering insurance coverage for lenders engaged in the financing of satellite projects. The product provides insurance coverage for ...
Tags: Satellite Financing, Insurance
Audi demonstrates its expertise in engine construction with cylinder on demand (COD) technology, which reduces fuel consumption by up to 20 percent. Three gasoline engines already include the innovative cylinder deactivation technology: ...
Tags: COD Technology, Audi
Ingenico, leading worldwide provider of payment solutions, announced that its Telium 2 range is now certified with EMP (Emerging Markets Payments) requirements. Working with more than 130 banks and 30 000 retailers, EMP is the leading ...
China's central bank said on Tuesday that it will continue its hands-off stance on the money market, as it maintains a "stable" monetary policy that facilitates the nation's essential structural reforms. The central bank "will neither ...
Tags: Central Bank, Hands-off Policy