- Location
banking giant
"-
Bank Sees Value in Arts Sponsorship
Oct 28, 2015Famed pianist Zhu Xiaomei gives a recital during the Beijing Music Festival and she plays one of Bach's major works, Goldberg Variations. An annual musical event not to be missed took place at Wangfujing Church on Oct 13. Since 2006, the ...
Tags: Bank, Arts Sponsorship, music activities
-
China Is Unlikely to "Purposely Weaken" Its Currency
Feb 10, 2015China is unlikely to "purposely weaken" its currency, the yuan, or renminbi (RMB), as it would go against the authorities' commitment to economic rebalancing and structural reforms, HSBC said on Monday. Even dismissing the economic ...
Tags: weaken currency, RMB
-
China Spends Less But Imports More Because of Price Slumps in The Global Commodity Market
Nov 10, 2014Price slumps in the global commodity market continued to allow China to spend less while importing more, helping China save on enormous import bills, latest customs data showed. In the first ten months of this year, China imported 252.6 ...
Tags: commodity market, crude oil
-
Natural Rubber Surpluses and Poor Demand Will Weigh on Spot Prices for The Commodity
Jul 26, 2013Natural rubber surpluses and poor demand, especially from China, will weigh on spot prices for the commodity, Germany's Commerzbank said in a report issued Tuesday. "Several years of supply surpluses on the global rubber market have ...
Tags: Natural rubber, Chemicals
-
Andy Kemshall Speaks up About Voice Recognition as a Security Tool
May 23, 2013Andy 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 ...
-
Singapore Escaped a Technical Recession After The Economy Grew in The Fourth Quarter
Jan 7, 2013Singapore escaped a technical recession after the economy grew in the fourth quarter thanks to a boost from services, government data showed yesterday, but prospects for 2013 remain gloomy. The Ministry of Trade and Industry said that ...
Tags: Singapore, technical recession, GDP
-
Research of 55 Bank CIOs Reveal How Companies Ravaged by Recession Are Investing in IT
Dec 31, 2012Research of 55 bank CIOs reveal how companies ravaged by recession are investing in IT to help them emerge stronger. The financial crisis which began with the credit crunch in 2008 and the subsequent collapse of investment banking giant ...
Tags: finance CIOs, IT
-
Citi Expects to Record Pre-Tax Charges of $1bn in The Fourth Quarter of 2012
Dec 24, 2012Citigroup is to lose more than 5,000 IT and operations jobs as part of the banking giant’s axing of 11,000 jobs globally. Some 40% of the jobs being cut in the firm’s Global Consumer Banking arm are to come from IT ...
Tags: Citigroup, technology jobs, operations jobs, banking giant, banking
-
Oil Was up in Asia on Trader Expectations of a Hike in Chinese Crude Demand
Dec 21, 2012AFP reported that oil was up in Asia on trader expectations of a hike in Chinese crude demand after a key survey showed its manufacturing activity hitting a 14 month high in December. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for ...
Tags: oil, light sweet crude, rose, improved demand
-
China's Manufacturing Sector Ended The Year on a High Note with Promising Signs
Dec 19, 201219-12-2012 China's manufacturing sector ended the year on a high note with promising signs for continued growth in the new year. The preliminary purchasing managers'index(PMI)released by global banking giant hit 50.9 this ...
Tags: Manufacture, High, growth
-
NatWest Glitch Is The Inevitable Result of Declining Coding Standards
Dec 17, 2012Banking giant RBS Group claims that the "technical failure" of its computer systems, which has been causing severe problems for customers since at least last Wednesday, has now been fixed. But it admits that knock-on problems will ...
Tags: RBS Group, technical failure, computer system, bank system
-
Anonymous Has Claimed Responsibility for a Distributed-Denial-of-Service Attack
Oct 19, 2012Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
Tags: Anonymous, hacker group, HSBC, distributed-denial-of-service attack
-
Anonymous Has Claimed Responsibility for a Distributed-Denial-of-Service Attack
Oct 19, 2012Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
Tags: Anonymous, hacker group, HSBC, distributed-denial-of-service attack
-
So Four Years on From Lehman's Collapse, What Has Changed in Financial Services IT?
Aug 14, 2012The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
Tags: global financial services, IT strategies, IT infrastructure, software