HSBC awarded Best Trade Finance Bank 2010 in Malta (Maltamedia.com Daily News)

Posted by admin on Feb 27 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

HSBC Bank Malta is Best Trade Finance Bank in Malta for 2010, this according to Global Finance magazine. HSBC was also voted World’s Best Trade Financial Provider 2010 in the UK and Hong Kong. The list of Best Trade Finance Providers for 2010 will be published in the February 2010 issue of Global Finance magazine.

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Islamic finance missing some opportunities (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted by admin on Feb 23 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

Islamic banking executives have a proposal for their bonus-addled Western counterparts: Take a look at our model. Beyond interest-free banking — a prospect that would likely win few proponents in London or New York — executives from the world of Islamic finance argued at a conference Tuesday that world markets weary of excessive risk and wealth imbalances should welcome ethical standards of …

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Islamic finance missing some opportunities (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Islamic finance missing some opportunities (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted by admin on Feb 23 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

Islamic banking executives have a proposal for their bonus-addled Western counterparts: Take a look at our model. Beyond interest-free banking — a prospect that would likely win few proponents in London or New York — executives from the world of Islamic finance argued at a conference Tuesday that world markets weary of excessive risk and wealth imbalances should welcome ethical standards of …

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German Recovery ‘Prone to Setbacks,’ Finance Ministry Says (Bloomberg)

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Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Germany’s stagnating economy in the final quarter of last year shows that the recovery from the deepest recession since World War II is “prone to setbacks,” the Finance Ministry said in its monthly report.

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German Recovery ‘Prone to Setbacks,’ Finance Ministry Says (Bloomberg)

Rapidshare server Photo screenshoot

Posted by admin on Feb 21 2010 in Gadgets and Technology | 0 comments

have you know rapidshare, the largest and known server hosting site.this is Rapidshare server Photo screenshoot, No wonder that so many files have been stored there, and certainly will increasingly more. File Hosting His name is also the largest in the world …

Lords of Finance, By Liaquat Ahamed (Independent)

Posted by admin on Feb 21 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

Lords of Finance, as its subtitle has it, tells the story of “1929, the Great Depression, and the bankers who broke the world”. Those bankers were the then-governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman, an eccentric, solitary man who dabbled in spiritualism and claimed he could walk through walls; Emile Moreau of the Banque de France, a xenophobe with a particular distrust of Germans; Hjalmar …

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Private equity boom seen for Islamic finance (The Malaysian Insider)

Posted by admin on Feb 17 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

DUBAI, Feb 18 — Private equity will be a key growth engine for the Islamic finance industry, but fund managers need to better understand sharia concepts before a market can develop, a top banker told Reuters yesterday.

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Private equity boom seen for Islamic finance (The Malaysian Insider)

S.Africa economy to grow 2.3%: finance minister (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Posted by admin on Feb 17 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

South Africa’s economy is expected to grow by 2.3 percent this year, boosted by the football World Cup, but jobs remain a concern after last year’s recession, the finance minister said Wednesday.

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Finance – Post-Copenhagen (and Gordon Brown Takes on the Denialists Again) (Foreign Policy Blogs)

Posted by admin on Feb 13 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

There was, of course, a lot of coverage from me and much of the rest of the world it seems, on the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen in December – before, during and since. One of the critical agreements to come out of the conference was on finance. Pledges were made by

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G-7 NOTEBOOK: Finance chiefs hear different tune (AP via Yahoo! News)

Posted by admin on Feb 6 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

Finance officials are taking a break in talks about the world’s economic woes to listen to a different tune.

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G-7 NOTEBOOK: Finance chiefs hear different tune (AP via Yahoo! News)