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Guangdong Banking
Apr 21, 2015Financial service companies expect the pilot free trade zone in Guangdong to play a key role in fostering innovation and boost business with its close proximity to Hong Kong and Macao. The Guangdong zone, to be unveiled on Tuesday, is ...
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This Year The Eurozone Will Experience Annual GDP Growth for The First Time Since 2011
Jan 9, 2014This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
Tags: Eurozone Financial Services, Business Lending, Financial Services
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The Current Third Party Controls Established in The Past 10-15 Years Were Adopted
Nov 18, 2013Conventional 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
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Worsening Conditions Are a Major Concern That See China as The "Promised Land"
Sep 10, 2013China as a market for international firms is growing in size and importance by the day. Doing business here, however, can still be a huge pain. At least that is the view of European companies operating in the country, according to a ...
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TransRe Selected MetricStream to Provide a Consolidated Approach for an Integrated
Sep 10, 2013TransRe, a global reinsurer wholly owned by Alleghany, has selected MetricStream to provide a consolidated approach for an integrated, flexible solution for its risk and compliance management needs. MetricStream's federated information ...
Tags: TransRe, MetricStream Software
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Piers Linney Will Take The Cloud Between Five and 10 Years to Fully Mature
Aug 23, 2013Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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China Is Willing to Allow Australian Banks Greater Access to Chinese Financial Market
Jul 20, 2013The Australian financial services sector could be a major beneficiary if the Labor government is able to finalise the long-awaited free trade agreement with China. Analysts in Beijing believe China would be willing to allow Australian ...
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Smartetailing Promotes Jon to The Newly Created Position of Senior Technical Specialist
Jun 3, 2013SmartEtailing has promoted Technical Support Manager Jon Jeffress to the newly created position of Senior Technical Specialist. Tech Specialist Paul Ribich was also promoted to fill Jeffress’ former position. “We created the ...
Tags: SmartEtailing, Transportation
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TXT Maple Lake Is Increasing Its Presence in North America
Apr 26, 2013TXT Maple Lake, a leading provider of integrated and collaborative planning solutions, is increasing its presence in North America. Following the acquisition of Toronto Headquartered retail planning specialist Maple Lake in September 2012, ...
Tags: TXT Maple Lake, Textile
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China Currency Agreement to Boost Trade Between Australia and China
Apr 11, 2013The recent landmark currency agreement between Australia and China is good news for Australian manufacturers. Under the agreement, exporters will be able to directly trade the Australian dollar with the yuan and vice versa. The deal, ...
Tags: Currency Deal, Boost Trade
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SAP Has Moved to Defend The Users of Its Sybase Database Software
Apr 3, 2013SAP has moved to defend the users of its Sybase database software by filing suit against Pi-Net International, a "patent troll" that has filed several patent infringement lawsuits against SAP customers in the US financial services sector ...
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Obama Executive Order Could Significantly Expand The List of Companies Categorized
Feb 18, 2013President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Tuesday, could significantly expand the list of companies categorized as part of U.S. critical infrastructure sector, security experts said Wednesday. The executive order ...
Tags: cybersecurity, infrastructure sector, US
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US Is Working with The Iraqi Banking Industry to Help Banks Improve Best Practices
Feb 6, 2013The 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 ...
Tags: US, Financial Sector, Iraq
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BT Group Dropped in The Three Months to 31 December 2012
Feb 4, 2013Revenues at BT Group dropped in the three months to 31 December 2012, according to a statement released today, but the firm still managed to produce a profit thanks to cost cutting and lower operating costs. The statement presented ...
Tags: BT Group, operating costs, revenues
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Banks and Investors Joined Forces with Accenture to Open Laboratory in London
Dec 31, 2012Banks and investors have joined forces with outsourcing giant Accenture to open a laboratory in London to develop technology for the financial services sector. The FinTech Innovation Lab,as it is known,will attempt to find technology ...
Tags: finance technology lab