Posts Tagged ‘Banking’

Obama Struggles With Urgent Task Of Fixing Economy

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
President Barack Obama has declared fixing the U.S. economy his "central mission" but he has few tools to bring down nearly double-digit unemployment or jump-start the faltering recovery this year. ...Read More »

AIG Taiwan Unit Buyer Seeks Favorable Ending

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
The buyers of American International Group Inc's Taiwan unit will be constructive as they seek to pursue the $2.2 billion bid even after Taiwan's regulators rejected it, a top executive said on Thursday. Read More »

Samsung to Challenge iPad With Own Tablet

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
Samsung Electronics' first tablet computer will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, joining the hunt to challenge Apple's iPad. Read More »

SEC Probes Cancelled Trades In Flash Crash

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
U.S. securities regulator is looking into a Wall Street trading practice in which unusually large numbers of orders to buy or sell stocks are placed in a fraction of a second, only to be canceled almost immediately, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Read More »

Europe Under Pressure To Approve Financial Regulations

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
European Union officials and lawmakers are returning from their summer break to face a bulging in-tray of regulatory measures to approve. Read More »

Transformation Never Ends

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
Nearing completion of a program to overhaul the way his technolgy organization operates and how it is viewed by the business, BB&T EVP and CIO Paul Johnson says the evolution of IT is an ongoing journey. Read More »

Samsung to Challenge iPad with Own Tablet

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
Samsung Electronics' first tablet computer will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, joining the hunt to challenge Apple's iPad. Read More »

Connecticut Probes First Niagara-NewAlliance Deal

{ Posted on Sep 01 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
Connecticut is probing First Niagara Financial Group's proposed $1.5 billion takeover of NewAlliance Bancshares Inc and has asked the banks to justify the merger, throwing a potential roadblock to the largest U.S. bank deal in nearly two years. Read More »

MMG Leverages Comparative Rating Solutions to Drive Growth

{ Posted on Sep 01 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
Maine Mutual Group powers growth by building out a service-oriented architecture and providing its independent agent network with comparative rating engines. ...Read More »

Futurity First’s New CIO Looking at Web Services

{ Posted on Sep 01 2010 by Financetech - All Stories }
Futurity First CIO Keith Raymond says shoring up the company's web presence is one of his top goals. Read More »