The European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) welcomes the introduction of the common currency in Slovakia. On January 1st 2009, the country will join the ranks of currently 15 member states that use the Euro. “Start-up packages” containing the EUR equivalent of 500 Sk (16.60 €) are already sold at all post offices and local commercial banks [...]
AirMedia Group Inc. , operator of the largest digital media network in China dedicated to air travel advertising, today announced that its board of directors has approved a share repurchase program.
AirMedia’s board of directors has authorized, but not obligated, AirMedia to repurchase up to US$50 million worth of its own outstanding American Depositary Shares [...]
Emerald Software Group, a leading publisher of business process driven workforce management solutions, and TaxBreak, a leading supplier of tax credit processing and revenue recovery services, announce today that the firms have formed a strategic partnership. The goal of the Emerald Software–TaxBreak alliance is to automate and maximize the tax credits recovered by their joint [...]
Worth Magazine, a well respected publication reporting on issues related to comprehensive wealth management, private banking and financial advisory services for high-net-worth individuals, has recognized LeGrand S. Redfield Jr. on their Top 250 Wealth Advisors List. This distinguished honor is reserved for an elite group of executives who represent the very finest that the wealth [...]
CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that it has acquired Log.Sec Corporation, a privately owned information technology (IT) and logistics engineering firm based in Manassas, Va. CSC expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings in the first year. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Log.Sec is the largest IT services provider at Aberdeen Proving Ground [...]
LJL Funding, LLC, the manager of the LJL Secured High Yield Income Fund I, LLC (the “Fund”) is pleased to announce its November 2008 investor distribution. This marks the 18th consecutive month the fund has made investor distributions. The annualized year-to-date yield as of November 30, 2008 is 10.53%. The Fund is on track to [...]
People Fleeing Megabanks Find Community Banks Paying Up To 6% Yields
December 17, 2008–Austin, TX— BancVue, a leading provider of products and consulting to community banking institutions, reported a 96% jump in deposits in the third quarter of its REWARDChecking® accounts, a free checking account offered by more than 450 community financial institutions across the country [...]
The NC Museum of Art is improving the strategic use of its financial information with SAS® Financial Management from the leader in business analytics. Using SAS for enterprise planning, budgeting, consolidation and reporting fuels the museum’s growth, including the current 127,000-square-foot expansion for its permanent collection.
The museum’s complex financial environment includes systems for box office [...]
With an eye to the future, a new e-payments network and trading exchanges in India push ahead despite global economic turmoil, and fault-tolerant servers are the application engines behind the services, Stratus Technologies announced today.
The Stratus ftServer line of fault-tolerant servers has been chosen for three new services:
— PRIZM Payments [...]
CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a leading information technology and management consulting company, and CGI Federal, its wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary today shared ideas with U.S. federal government agencies and financial institutions on specific solutions to facilitate the management of the enormous challenges facing them within the current financial crisis and recently enacted [...]
