It is reported that Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) has announced to sign a syndicated loan of US$265 million with 12 banks and it will help the company to manage the cash flow of its raw material investments purpose. The ...
Tags: Syndicated Loan Project
Many small and medium-sized enterprises took a direct hit from the bank liquidity squeeze in June, which disrupted their cash flow and boosted the cost of financing. Figures from Shanghai-based Wind Information, a financial data provider, ...
Tags: Credit Crunch, Smaller Firms
Gemalto has published the results of a street survey conducted amongst Dubai residents, revealing an overwhelming appetite for using contactless technologies not only with their banking cards, but also directly from their mobile phones, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
New business volume grew 16.4% in the equipment finance industry in 2012, according to the 2013 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity (SEFA) released by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association. The growth in volume was on par with the ...
Tags: economy
Lusheng Festival The Lusheng Festival is the most influential festival of the Miao minority. It is popular throughout Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan provinces. The Lusheng Festival in Kaili, the famous tourist hub in Guizhou province, is ...
Tags: Festivals, Celebrations, Miao Ethnic Group, Sisters'Meals festival
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localization to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
Tags: APP, Windows, software, Computer Products
CENTRAL banks loaded up on the Australian dollar in the first quarter, just before the currency began a steep descent that would see it touch its lowest level in nearly three years, data from the International Monetary Fund shows. The ...
Tags: Service, economy, Central Banks
DESPITE deep reservations about domestic political instability and shaky conditions in the resources sector, professional investors expect local shares to shrug off May's malaise and see the All Ordinaries index retest 5000 points by ...
Tags: economy
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localisation to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
With the previously $40,000 Carberp Trojan's source code now freely available, experts expect exceptionally destructive variants of the malware to flow onto the Internet. Carberp-based malware is expected to take advantage of the bootkit ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
What does it take to shake the Chinese market? If stock turmoil in Shanghai and talk of bank default don't strike fear in the heart of the nation, images of a metropolis falling into a chasm will perhaps do the trick. An image from the ...
Tags: Cash Squeeze, Banks
Bank of China, one of China's big four state-owned commercial banks, has stated in a report that China's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to rebound to 7.8 percent in the third quarter of this year, amid acceleration of ...
Tags: Chinese GDP
Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a $100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs in a deal that APT describes as the largest investment in predictive analytics to date. Further reading How ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
French retail giant Carrefour is said to quit the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Sources said recently that Carrefour, the biggest retailer in the world and the second-biggest one in Europe, was considering selling business in both the ...