Financial & Business Services News 2

• "We Can;t Handle Higher Rates"
• "Will foreign Delegates be receptive to the re-distribution of Wealth"
• $1 Trillion ABCP market: mystery and opportunity
• ‘What on earth is going on’
• 2007 Could Be the Year Deposit Automation Takes Off At the ATM
• A Casualty of Corporate Image and Market Expediency
• A Crime of our times
• A fine thought for the day
• A Prudent decision
• A Retail Banking Upgrade at Citi Would Make Some Vendor Thrilled
• A Tale of two Princes and a Citi
• A win-win for BofA and Countrywide
• ABN AMRO - Barclays Deal Has Company: Is Three a Crowd or a Winner?
• ABN Amro's 1st Quarter Profits Rise, Despite Takeover Talks, A DOJ Investigation & Fines of Up to $500 Million
• ABN-Barclays $80 Billion Deal May Be In Jeopardy With A DOJ Probe & Counterbid
• About as much as The Indiana Colts winning Superbowl effects Manchester United.
• ACI Fills a Big (Payments) Hole in IBM's Banking Partner Base
• ACI Worldwide Inks Two Processing Deals With Its Base24-eps and Enterprise Banker Products
• Advance America is acting like a copy that is about to go private.
• After A Bumpy Two-Year Ride Hypercom's CEO Steps Down
• Aging Faster for Women taking Lybrel (Aurora International Executive Solutons, LLC)
• Allegations of Insider Trading & A Breach of Trust At Credit Suisse
• An interesting deal - not likely to succeed
• An interesting twist but not much weight. WalMart should stick to low prices and retailing
• ANZ – Investing in Now
• Aon, CHUBB, WILLIS, Marsh and McLennan, Travelers (AOC, TRV, CB, MMC, WSH) Miss Contingency Fees
• As China Gears Up for the 08 Olympics, ATM OEMs Jockey for Market Share
• Asia's oldest Stock Exchange is still a Closed Club !
• ASSET MANAGEMENT IN ITALY: A FLAW IN THE SYSTEM THAT COULD LEAD TO A MAJOR OPPORTUNITY
• ASX- A giant in the Asia-Pacific region
• At this point, who cares about Q2!?
• ATM & Debit Overdraft Fees Raked In $17.5 Billion for Banks and Credit Unions
• ATMs & Self-Service Kiosks Converge To Target $12 Billion Plus Unbanked/Underserved Consumers
• Auto insurance channel conflict: More smoke than heat.
• B of A Makes a Move for ABN AMRO's LaSalle Bank
• Bank Of America + LaSalle = $21 Billion Acquisition & More Market Share
• Bank of America Leads the Way With Check Imaging, No-Envelope Deposit ATMs
• Banking and the Subprime Mortgage Market
• Barclays + ABN Amro = World's Largest Financial Services Acquisition
• Barclays Adds Color After Advocate General Gives Temporary Boost To Barclays Takeover of ABN
• BARCLAYS BANK’S FORAY INTO RETAIL BANKING IN INDIA
• Barclays Invites Investors From Asia with Deep Pockets To Support Their Bid for ABN
• BATS, BOATS, TURQUOISE and…….. YELLOW SUBMARINE
• Bausch & Lomb in play - AMO and Warburg Pincus bid so far
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Barclays + ABN AMRO?
• Bear Stearns - A rightfully nervous bear.
• Beating up on Wal-Mart is popular, but they do serve a market; and meet a need
• Bemuda Reinsurance Market Will Continue Strong--Long Term
• Benefits of Private Equity outweigh criticisms
• Blackstone Group IPO + $3 Billion Investment From China May = $7.75 Billion IPO
• Blackstone's Pending IPO Will Reap Huge Rewards For Its Top Executives
• Brazil Fuels ATM Growth In Latin America and ATM Vendors Take Notice
• BRINGING SOUND ADVISE FOR EVERYONE
• BRITANIA RULES THE EXCHANGES - BEWARE TURQUOISE!
• Bubba Bucks
• Bubba is lost at Wal Mart.
• Built in Shock Absorbers
• Bush, Bernanke, BandAids & Bloodletting
• But Can I Trust It?
• Buy your stocks where you buy your socks.
• California's Long Term Prognosis
• Can Consumers Afford Their Crushing Debt Loads? (Installment Debt Planning Basics)
• Can ISO TRM Dig Out of The Whole It Dug?
• Can the RBS Consortium & Bank of America Share LaSalle Bank and End the ABN Takeover Battle? - Part 3
• Cane Canem (beware of the dog)
• Capital One Acquires Channel to Board New Credit Customers
• Capital One: Green Point - How to deal with a Subprime Mortgage Base and Earnings!
• Capitalism's Self-regulating Aspect
• Cardtronics Acquires Largest "C-Store" 7-Eleven's ATM Fleet, Market Share & Transactions Volumes
• Cardtronics Q207 Net Loss of $5.6 Million Due to Operational Expenses
• Caribbean Call Centers Are Not The Answer for Every Application
• Carribean for Customer Service;India for Intelligence
• Catching a Falling Knife
• C-Bass breaks up Radian/MGIC marriage
• CDO models cannot be faulted for the meltdown occurring, it is all a long overdue correction in an industry that ballooned to an excess
• CDO pricing and its expected behavior in times of economic stress.
• CDS Investors Claim Conflict if Subprime Borrowers Are Offered Modifications.
• Central Bankers are lending freely but not so freely as to bail out the over-levered players in the game
• changing dynamics of health costs
• Chaos in Florida Auto Insurance Market
• Cheap to buy in Spain?
• Check 21 Milestone: Check Image Volumes Usurps Check Volumes First Time In History
• Check 21 Spinoff: Back Office Conversion Launches on March 16th
• Check Imaging Growth Contributing To the Decline Of Paper Checks and Its Own Demise
• CheckFree is to X as Certegy was to Fidelity National Information Services
• CheckFree's Cloudy Future: Bank of America Has Online Billpay Options
• Cheers or Tears As Commerce Takes TD's Money?
• Chicago Mercantile Raises Bid by 16% for CBOT to Thwart ICE (InterContinentalExchange)
• China Cracks Down on Foreign Private Equity
• China's Media Mirage
• China's QDII: Banks get the green light
• Choosing a Life partner
• Citi Flips 12,000 Credit Cards to AmEx From Visa to Target Higher-Spending AmEx Cardholders
• Citigroup Bulks Up Hedge Fund Services with Bisys Deal
• Citigroup Needs Time and a Miracle to Reach its New Frontier
• Clash of the Titans: RBS & Fortis's Gentlemen's Disagreement Over ABN's Client List
• Class Action Suit May Derail CheckFree's Contract With BOFA
• CME analysis
• CME Raised the Stakes to $11.9 Billion for CBOT to Create the World's Largest Futures Exchange
• CNI-Unidym combine forces
• Coca-Cola & Mastercard Expands Contactless Vending With Tap N Go Technology
• Cold feet in the mortgage industry means opportunity for the brave with deep pockets
• Commentary on Merk/Surmodics license
• Commerce Bancorp Sold to TD Bank for $8.5 Billion
• Commisions are required to be transparent. It is a contract and the contract should be clear
• Commissions: To Take or Not To Take. The Debate Continues.....
• Computerworld: ID theft threats have surged 200% since Jan. 1
• Conduct a Quarterly Review!
• Conduits: The Problem, Not the Solution
• Consumer Protection in the Credit Card Industry
• Cost of infrastructure and technology rising
• Could be possible a NY - SE MEX marriage?
• Could contactless lead to growth in demand for PIN?
• Countrywide Layoffs Indicative of More Mortgage Market Pain
• Cracking the Whip Over Subprime Guidelines
• CREATING CLIENT TRUST
• Creative Cost Containment for Healthcare Premiums
• Credit Card Marketers Turn Their Sights on America’s Benighted Subprime
• Credit cards on fire !
• Curing the Mortgage Industry without Killing It
• Curious to see products offered ?
• Deal is Done
• Debit Cards Trumps Credit Cards, Cash & Checks As Consumers "Most Preferred/Used" Card
• Debt Meltdown - Understanding It - "Financial Mismatching" at the Core
• Debt to Equity Ratio: Corporate and Individual
• Declining remittances, slowing growth no cause for long-term concerns - June 2007
• Default: Mortgage or Consumer Credit
• Depositor Panic Triggers Run on UK Bank, Over Leveraged Banks at Risk
• Derivatives for Dummies
• Develop long-short trade views on companies in the mortgage sector analyzing interest rate shocks to their recently reported financial statements
• Did Bank of America Pull a Warren Buffett?
• Did we learn nothing from the S&L crisis?
• Diebold Touts ATM Service Brevado, Multi-vendor Software & International Growth in Next 3-5 Years
• Diebold's ImageWay Offers FI's Check Imaging Solutions
• Direct Sales in Latin America – Continuous Innovation
• Discover's Merchant Acquiring Deals Cover 90% of the Market Transaction Processing Volume
• Disgorgements by NETeller could lead to other Companies paying fines?
• Do we really need insurance agents?
• Does a B of A - RBS Compromise over LaSalle Make Sense?
• Does Barclays, the Consortium, Bank of America Or ABN Shareholders Win In this Deal?
• Does the Barclays - ABN Deal Structure Snooker Other Bidders?
• Don't Blame the Quants
• Drop the cost of funds and invest in non government mortgage backed securities...
• Dutch Advocate General Offers a Thoughtful Opinion on B of A - LaSalle Deal
• Dutch Court Clears the Way for LaSalle Sale to Bank of America: What's Next for The Key Players?
• E*Trade TDAmeritrade Potential Merger
• Easing The Money Supply - Borrowing and Liquidity.
• Economists demand adjustment of major currencies in order to avoid global distortions
• EFD Considers Strategic Options After 1st Quarter Dip In Earnings
• Effects of the subprime crisis on Germany and Europe
• eFunds: Sold For $1.8 Billion to Fidelity National
• Electronic assault on branch-based global money transfer business model drawing nearer
• Ethanol's long term demand curve is positively sloped
• EU Eliminating Obstacles to Cross Border Banking
• Evolution of Urinary Catheter Systems in Mexico: Latex vs Silicone
• Exchange Consolidation: DB/ISE
• Expectations: Interest Policy and Strategy!
• Failure at the bleeding edge with Holiday Loans and Paystub Loans
• FDIC Reports On U.S. Banks 1Q07 Performance
• Fed Action Won't Provide Credibility
• Fed Exercises Restraint as Congress Inches Toward Micromanaging Credit Cards
• FHA Secure, Who does this Really Help?
• Financial Implications of Imploding Middle Class Purchasing Power
• Financial scenarios and regional security
• Financial Stress - Australia
• Finding the balance with giftcard fee disclosure
• First Citizens 1Q2007 Earnings: Sliding on an Inverted Slope
• First Data and Allpoint Team Up to Offer Surcharge-Free ATM Access
• First Financial Bancorp 1Q2007 Earnings: A Turnaround in Progress
• Fiserv Adds NetEconomy to Its Portfolio
• Fiserv Opens Its Wallet and Grabs CheckFree
• Fla Auto Insurers' Revenue Sunsets with No Fault Law PGR, ASAM, SAFC, ALL, MCY, TW
• Florida is not making auto insurance voluntary.
• Florida Legislators Research on PBM Business Model
• Follow the Lead of the ECU and Australian Central Banks
• Foreclosure is Far From the Only Option
• Fortis's Shareholders Plays Pivotal Role In the Consortium's Bid for ABN
• Get a Grip: The current liquidity squeeze is not like a run on the banks.
• Gift/Prepaid Cards Offer Convenience, Breakage and Risk
• Global IPOs Set Record Growth in Asia-Pacific & EMEA in 1Q07
• Global Opportunities in Residential Mortgages - What's Next?
• Go eletronic or get left behind
• Go Global Think Local
• Good Earnings, but here is what they didn't tell you
• Good Medicine - If the Prescription is Followed
• Grass is not always greener on the other side
• Green Dot's Prepaid Reload Network Makes Strides With Card Networks and Issuers
• Happy 40th Birthday To the ATM
• Has the Subprime Meltdown Created a New Credit Crunch Paradigm?
• Healthcare: The New International Market
• Healthy Competition in Outsourcing
• Healthy Ingredients To Help "Eat Your Competitor's Lunch"? UnitedHealthcare - UNH - Medical Insurance
• Heartland Celebrates 10th Year Anniversay With Impressive 1st Quarter Earnings
• Hello Managed Care!
• High-profile mobile payments specialist stumbles on a ripe worldwide market
• History shows us the future: The economy and financial markets in 2008 and beyond
• How Alt A Turned Toxic
• How FICO scores are used by mortgage lenders and why they don't use it correctly
• How MasterCard win debit share from Visa has enormous implications for the network’s economics
• How Subprime Woes will potentially devastate the Mortgage Industry
• How the cookie crumbles
• HRH's First Quarter Wake Up Call
• Hypercom Readies For Growth After 1st Quarter Strategic Assessment of Operations
• I have two suggestions for credit rating agencies to weather the current storm of investigations
• ICE on ice in the USA
• If Past is Prologue, then the 2007 Carry Trade Unwind is Just Getting Underway
• In for a penny In for a pound...
• Increased Paperwork+Government Regulation=More of the Same
• India a big market for Life Insurance industry
• Indian Inflation reined by central bank- a fallacy
• Industrialization at any price
• Infrastrucure was an inhibitor early on, but will now be an enabler
• Insurance agents must promote themselves, but their agencies too?
• Insurance Agents: Educating Your Insured Before Claim Time=More Productivity
• Insurance Brokerage Revenues: Another Challenge
• Insurance Fraud Implications - The United Kingdom and Abroad.
• International Banking in-market Strategies: Myth
• International Implications of U.S. Housing Markets
• Intuit & ECHO Agreed to Disagree - Merger Called Off
• Intuit Folds Its Hand and Passes on ECHO
• Is eFunds Holding Out For the Highest Bidder?
• Is m-Banking and m-Payments the Next Payment Application Vying For Market Share in the U.S.?
• Is the end in site? real estate issues
• Is the RBS Consortium + An ABN Deal Minus LaSalle Bank More Probable?
• Is the sky falling?
• Is TSYS The Next Processor Headed For Spin-Off?
• Is Wincor One-Upping NCR & Diebold With Bulk-Check Deposit ATMs?
• It is more than liquidity and perception - the Housing Crisis
• It’s a great time for Metavante to go public
• It's not Alt-A v. Sub-prime v. A-paper
• It's not always irrational for consumers to pay credit cards before mortgages
• It's time for plug-in hybrids for huge energy savings and reduced oil dependence!
• Jack of all trades and master of none
• Just more talk or are European banks now ready to make a third card payment network a reality?
• Kazahk banking system relatively heathy
• KKR To Purchase First Data for Roughly $29 Billion
• Know Thy Broker
• Korea now seeks to foreign investment in political and economic reasons
• Korea now seeks to foreign investment in political and economic reasons
• Large bank core conversions in the U.S. - Lottsa talk, little action
• LatAm demographics and its economic impact
• Latin America: Friend or Foe to American Agribusiness?
• Latin consumers find their niche – why the region’s affluent want something new
• Lending Woes?
• Let all inputs enter your decision process, even when you’re on vacation
• Libor and Commercial Paper Rates Spike on Moody's Aggressive Ratings Downgrades
• Like Anything Else - Caveat Emptor
• Like it or Not, Subprime Loans Are Here To stay
• Litigation Issues Cloud Visa IPO
• London May Fall As Citigroup Cuts 17,000 Jobs to Cut Costs & Restructure Operations
• Loss Mitigation Efforts are Key to Foreclosure "Soft Landing"
• Loss mitigation versus Loan Origination
• Loss of Revenues: Auto Insurance is NO longer REQUIRED???
• Low cost housing the need of the hour
• Loyalty Marketing Implications to FDR's Poland Acqusition?
• M & I 2Q07 Earnings: Walking Sideways
• M&I Spins Metavante Onto the Dance Floor: Can Either One Dance with the Stars?
• Macquarie and what we shoudl expect to see as a result of their losses...
• Mark Twain says that Blue Planet's reports of Economic death is premature!
• Marsh and McClennan to Alter Fee Ban, Travelers Eys New Fees and Others watch (AOC, TRV, CB, MMC, WSH)
• MasterCard and Capital One Rip Current and Debit Account Bundling Asunder
• MasterCard and Visa need to stave off banks establishing their own payment processor in India
• MasterCard Lloyds TSB win harbinger of intensified network competition to come
• MasterCard Raises the Bar
• MasterCard’s inControl Announcement: this is big (UDLAP) news
• Mastercard's 1st Quarter Profits of $215 Million, Highest In 40-Year History
• May 2007 Was Record Month for Check Imaging Volumes and Dollar Value
• Media Smells Blood at Big Pharma
• Medical Tourism Has Price Transparency - The United States Has Opaque Pricing
• Metavante Will Get A Second Chance At Independence With Spinoff
• Mexico’s “Top-Of-Mind” Transportation And Warehousing Providers
• MFW Acquisition of Harland
• Micro Finance - Current Trends in India
• Misinformation Adds to a Tenuous Market -- Please New York Times - We Deserve Better
• Money will be found
• More Noise on Capitol Hill: B of A’s LA County Pilot Program
• Morgan Stanley Provides Insight Into Discover Spinoff
• Mortgage Meltdown Domino Effect
• Mortgage REITs Going Once, Going Twice, ....Gone?
• Mr Paulson's views on mortgage credit and economic strength are right on target.
• NAIC Model Act Requirements
• Nasdaq May Give Up LSE Stake to Acquire OMX
• NASDAQ To Lose LSE Albatross and Looks Like it is in Catbird Seat this Time with OMX
• National City's 1Q2007 Earnings: Turbulence Likely to Continue
• Nautilus Hyosung Opens Ops in Dallas To Go Head-to-Head With Former Partner/Rival Tranax & Other Competitors
• Navigating Latin American Distribution Channels
• NCR Banks On Consumers' Preferences to Grow ATM Operations
• NCR Inks Deal to Provide End-to-End ATM Management for HSBC India
• NCR's Bill Nuti Reports On Self-Service Trends & NCR's Role In Meeting Demands
• Necessity for restructuring public sector banks in Germany
• New Florida Laws Reduce Risk Adjusted Returns of Bermuda Reinsurers
• New Kid on the bloc
• New Regulations are Good for the Credit Industry
• No Fed rate cuts
• No More Bidders But Watch for a Share Swap Shuffle?
• no surprise
• Not a chance Disclosed "Service Fees" will match prohibited US "Service Placement Fees”
• Not a Prime Time to Tap the Sub-Prime Market
• Not very useful research!
• Nothern Rock caught on Speed Camera
• Nuveen Investments Accepts $6.3 Billion Buyout Led By Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
• NY Giving Green Light to Broker "Service Fees"- Ohio Sues Marsh, Travelers, Chubb, Zurich. WIllis
• Odd Couples: Banks and Insurance Brokers
• Off Balance Sheet Financing: Hazardous for the Banking Industry!
• Once Again, UBS Gets Hurt By Following the Herd
• Online Bank NetBank Folds and ING Bank Will Acquire $1.5 Billion of Its Deposits
• Online Brokerage Wars
• Open-Loop Prepaid Cards v/s Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards - Isn't It All Growth?
• Optional Insurance Coverage For Florida Motorists?
• Oracle buys Bharosa: Is it primarily a financial services (vertical or IAM (identity access managment horizontal) play?
• Outsourcing – A Passage to India
• Outsourcing - Down Pricing or Up Profiting?
• Outsourcing - Is it a Panacea?
• outsourcing - is it cost effective???
• Outsourcing is as Outsourcing does - Banks Consulting! LLC
• PARIBAS AT TURQUOISE
• Past Mortgage Underwriting Guidelines will show you the future.
• PATERNOSTER SQUARE & PIAZZA DEGLI AFFARI - LSE & BORSA IALIANA, AN ODD MARRIAGE
• Pay By Voice and other “latest and greatest” in the biometrics arena
• Pay Option ARM's: A Ticking Time-bomb?
• Payment cards: uninterrupted service good when intended, bad when unintended
• PayPal Pay [Me] Later
• PBM's Fail Employers with Mail
• PCI Compliance in the news
• Perception by Crowds, of future events, foretell their occurrance.
• Polcard acquisition established First Data as top processor in New Europe’s largest card market
• Potential benefits of reinsurer consolidation depend on quality of due diligence work.
• Pride Go Before The Fall
• Private Equity Firm Blackstone Capital Partners to Acquire Alliance Data for $7.8 Billion
• Private Equity Firms Are Feasting At the Buffet Table
• Private Equity vs Shareholder Equity - The key to Survival of the MarketPlace!
• Private Market Liquidity is good for Sponsors as well as Holders
• Pro's & Con's
• Providing Liquidity to the Credit Markets may be outside the Fed’s Hands over the near term
• Prudential Exercises "Look Back' Option & Stays With Wachovia Securities Joint Venture
• Pushing a string
• Quality and Service Will Suffer With Outsourcing
• Question time for rating agencies
• Rating Agencies Latest High Wire Act
• Rating Agency inconsistencies.
• RBI Concerned over NBFCs
• RBS Consortium Ups The Anty & Bids $95.6 Billion For ABN Amro, Outbidding Barclays (Part 1)
• RBS Consortium Ups the Anty for ABN & LaSalle Bank: The Spin On Benefits, Costs Savings & Risks (Part 2)
• Real Impact will be low
• Regulated Interest regime- is it not in the interest of GE?
• Regulators, Lenders or Consumers?
• Regulatory experience helps, even if its not the kind you'd look for.
• Reinsurance M&A as a form of market timing
• Report Card On U.S. Off-Premise ATMs
• Return ON Investment vs Return OF Investment
• Reverse Mortgage Valuation
• Riding out the crest of the storm...some survivors are calmly waiting to pick up the pieces.
• Rise and rise of the Indian Consumer market
• Risk of a Bank Spin Off
• Risks of Imploding Middle Class Purchasing Power
• Risky Loans:A decision to Complete a Deal?
• Royal threat looms over Dream Team
• Run For Cover
• Sallie Mae Buyout May Be In Jeopardy If Deomcrats Subsidy Plan Is Approved
• Sallie Mae Hopes the M&A Music Doesn't Stop Now
• Salvation of the Financial Markets - Discount/Interest Rates!
• SARBANES-OXLEY TURNS FIVE - THE BOARDROOM IMPACT
• SBI – Giant takes a great leap forward
• Schwartz May Be Smooth, But Spector Succeeded In Creating Bear Stearns' Primary Source of Growth
• Scoring Covers Credit. Don't forget Loan-to-value and Payment-to-Income Ratios
• Seeking ways to help borrowers compare home loan costs
• Selection of old bull from US credit card industry as Visa Inc. CEO a disappointment
• Selection of old bull from US credit card industry as Visa Inc. CEO a disappointment
• Self-Destruction of Sub-Prime Lenders, Self-Motivated by Greed: Kruger & Associates LLC, business consultants
• Senate Will Revisit The ILC Issue On March 22, 2007
• Should an Insurance Agent/Agency be Fluent With the Latest Technologies?
• Should Nasdaq's Deal with Borse Dubai be blocked by US Legislators?
• Show me the growth in bank tech vendors
• Showdown on the Hill: Citi, Chase & Bank of America Testify Re Credit Card Practices
• Six Sigma Capital
• Social Networks Industry: "You ain't seen nothing yet!"
• Spin-off: DFS - Discover's Pending Independence From Morgan Stanley Begins On 6.30.07
• Subprime and Fear/Hostility - Financial Marketplace
• Subprime Crisis? What Subprime Crisis?
• Subprime Implications Are Not Limited to Suprime Mortgages
• Subprime industry will correct silently, without dragging the economy down, continue to stay long world-wide equities, not bonds
• Subprime Lending = Egalitarian Oppotunities
• Subprime loss or broker gain?
• Subprime Mortgage Market: Risk for Investors!
• Subprime Pains Leads to New Rules and Lower Volume
• Subprime Pains Will Lead to New Regs
• Subprime tsunami sinks Dow Jones
• Supplemental Compensation: Will the Fat Lady Ever Sing?
• SVPCO Sees a 600% Increase In Check Imaging/Exchange Compared to 2005
• Tax Implications Nor Lawmakers Could Stop Blackstone (BX) From Raising $4.1 Billion for Its IPO on 6.22.07
• That Nasty Fee Called "Interchange" Has Bubbled Up Again!
• The Bandwagon Gets Crowded: New Regs for Mortgage Credit Now All the Rage
• The beginning of the end for AHM
• The Fed and Treasury are playing for high stakes now
• The Fed is Too Late
• The Fed's estimates of subprime credit losses are irresponsible.
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• The Greater Fool Theory
• The Greenspan Put Is Dead
• The Impact of M&A Among Bank Tech Companies
• The largest LBO in history, what could go wrong?
• The markets are in for turbulent times, but this is not the 'big' downfall. OTC derivatives risks are identifiable, but not trackable in the aggregate because they not trade in a transparent market.
• The markets are in for turbulent times, characterized by high volatility, but not due for another major fall soon. The worldwide equity markets present a buying opportunity
• The Mexican Pharmaceutical Market: A Stronghold for FDI
• The Mortgage Credit Crunch & Mortgage Fraud
• The present market correction is an opportune time to re-examine strategic asset allocation in portfolios.
• The price of an acquisition is only part of the algorithm. Value is more important.
• The quantitative playbook has not failed. I dispel some myths in the press from my understanding of the quant equity investing methodology. Opportunities for quant equity managers to claim outperformance will not diminish
• The Rain is Coming - Don't Count on the Credit Storm Bypassing Credit Cards
• THE RATING SCAPEGOAT
• The Real Estate Bubble: My Analysis and Predictions Released in 2006
• The Role of Ratings Agencies
• The Shrinking Bank: WestAmerica Bancorporation (WABC)
• The trick will be to continue the trick.
• The Uninsureds- The Untouchables- "That's the Florida Way" - Part One
• The Unisured- The Untouchables- "That's the Florida Way" Part 2
• The War on Drug Costs
• The World(Country)Wide Bust
• They Have a Plan
• Think Big Act Small
• This will become a big problem in 2008
• Thoughts about Sharebuilder
• Three Months Out of the Gate IPOs Raised $12.1 Billion in 1st Quarter 2007
• Three Thumbs Up: RBS, Fortis & Santander's Shareholders' Approve Bid for ABN Takeover
• Tighter On who? How many lenders will be left?
• Time for a Calypso
• TJX Bleeding Continues Long After Data Breach Is Plugged
• TJX's Data Breach: Over 45 Million Records Compromised
• To ATM or not To ATM, that is the questions that I ask of thee?
• To Celebrate Our Independence Dealmakers Rounded Up $64 Billion In Deals
• To cut or not to cut? That is the question...?
• To Outsource or Not To Outsource...Insurance Providers Are No Exception
• too little and too late to save our souls- for poor stock holders particularly in India
• Trading a small hit for a reliable source of expansion funding
• Transparency to the Client is Paramount
• Trends in Life Settlements
• Trinity to insure Life
• TRM Reports Improvements & Losses in Q207 But Is It Enough?
• Trouble on the horizon for AMO's bid to acquire Bausch & Lomb
• Uncle Ben: Do nott lose control of the dollar. If you do, you ain't seen nothing yet....Ask Norman Lamont
• Uncompensated Care Effects Earnings. Catastrophic Insurance on the wain.
• Understanding How Remittance Market Fundamentals Will Affect Remittances and Banks
• US sub-prime mortgage crisis has limited reverb on Latin markets
• Vast market but Keep it Simple
• Verifone Is Smearing the Mud In Hypercom's Face
• VeriFone's Offer to Hypercom Customers
• Very Interesting Findings
• Vindication For New York Insurance Brokers
• Visa achieves interchange parity with American Express (AXP)
• Visa's Push For a Cashless Society Relies On Echo Boomers and Baby Boomers Predictions and Volume Too
• Wachovia + A. G. Edwards Raises Retail Broker Stakes but Payoff is Risky
• Wachovia Securities Takes A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion & Moves Up to 2nd Largest Retail Brokerage
• Wait three years before you act on the claims of research firms
• Wal Mart is poised to dominate the transition from non banked to banked
• Wall of Worry or Stair Steps to the Top of the Slide? by Pinnacle Investment Co., Kurt D. Van Valkingburg
• Walmart - The Final Banking Frontier
• Wal-Mart and BTS (Back-to-School)
• Walmart is about percentage efficiency and this will help
• Walmart Is Integrating Point-Of-Purchase (POP) Processing With Success
• Wal-Mart Wades Into Banking Its Underbanked Customers
• Wal-Mart Will Hedge Its Bet on Banking
• Wal-Mart Will Still Find a Way to Skin the Cat
• Wal-Mart: to boldly go where no bank has gone before…?
• Wal-Mart's Easy Investing Offering Makes No Waves
• Walmart's Lofty Banking Plans Won't Include FDIC Approval
• Wells Fargo Offers Zero Transaction Fees Through Its ExpressSend Remittance Service
• Western Union - Behind and Beyond the Boycott.
• Western Union Boycott Threat by Immigrants
• Western Union has brand but stagecoach technology won't help it survive!
• Western Union: Threat of New Entrants and Technology Means More Turbulence Ahead
• What Adam Smith foretold about TJX in 1776
• What Can Affect Redecard?
• What does First Data’s LBO portend?
• What is their plan?
• What the Fed Reserve Does:
• What type of Professional Liability Insurance should an insurance agent have?
• What went wrong with residential lending
• When David and Goliath come to terms, one wonders what the sub-Goliaths were doing
• When the first uninsured accident occurs, we'll see many new laws there !
• Who needs Building and Ordinance Law Coverage?
• Who Will Win The China Credit Card Market?
• Why Are Bankers Diving Into Private Equity?
• Why join the Crowd?
• Why Print Made a Major Comeback in 2006
• Why the Alt-A Originate-To-Sell Mortgage Business Model Could No Longer Be Viable in a Declining Real Estate Market
• Why the Fed's Help Won't Help
• Why W/C costs rise when frequency falls....
• Why would individuals open a self directed IRA or Solo401k, and acquire real estate in their retirement plan?
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