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Fintech

DCIM Solutions: Do You Know Where Your Servers Are?

by William Bloomstein, Market Strategist for iTRACS. 24th October 2013 Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) means many things to many people, depending on their short-term and long-range goals for the data center. For some, the immediate priority is reducing energy consumption and costs, contributing to the elimination of OPEX. For others, it’s getting a better handle...
Fintech

Data Center Efficiency: Flirting with Disaster

Global demand for datacenter electricity will quadruple by 2020″ . 24th October 2013 Data center inefficiency affects all levels of the corporate hierarchy; from IT asset managers and data center directors, to accounting and finance professionals, right up to the folks sitting in the boardroom.  The combination of skyrocketing energy costs and the ever-increasing business...
Economy

EU Signs Historic Trade Deal With Canada

The deal will make Canada the only G8 country to have preferential access to the world’s two largest markets, the EU and the United States. 24th October 2013 The European Union and Canada agreed on a multibillion – trade pact on Friday that will integrate two of the world’s largest economies and paves the way...
Fintech

Hacker’s Now Set Their Eyes on “Source Code”

Cyber crime is carried out by self styled criminals known as “hacktivists”, to organised crime gangs who have a strong understanding of the hardest networks and also from state sponsored adversaries to target banks, financial centres and state owned. 21st October 2013 Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute have released a new study...
Economy

KPN “Poison Pill’s” Slim’s Takeover Bid

“The soccer rules in Mexico and Netherlands are the same, but taking over a large company is not soccer. We may have different rules for this here than in Mexico,” said Jacques Schraven, who heads the foundation. 21st October 2013 Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim’s effort to take over Dutch Telecom Company, Royal KPN NV, was...
Economy

London Business School Signs Key Deal

The programme is designed primarily to offer SAFE’s employees access to London Business School’s Master in Finance (MiF) programme, which is ranked number one in the world. 21st October 2013 London Business School, which has presence in London, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with China’s State Administration...
FinanceWealth Management

New Zealand: Creating Wealth for Clients

New Zealand is well-positioned to continue to provide investors with both a safe-harbour and strong returns relative to other geographies. 19th October 2013 New Zealand – on first impressions think clean, green, beaches, mountains, films like Lord of the Rings, music sensation Lorde, and of course The All Blacks. Few people think about investment opportunities, when perhaps they should....
Islamic Banking

What Financial products do Muslim adults want?

By Asli DEMIRGÜÇ-Kunt 18th October 2013 “Islamic finance” is a phrase that you hear a lot in development circles these days. Indeed, many policymakers are interested in the potential of Sharia-compliant financial services to expand financial inclusion among Muslims adults. Our colleagues down the street are no exception:  earlier this year the International Finance Corporation...
Economy

Restarting Government Seen Harder Than Shutdown

John Koskinen, Deputy Director of Management at OMB said “Significant additional costs, that cannot be determined at this time, include interest payments to third parties” when the government does not pay its bill on time to third parties. 18th October 2013 The US Senate has passed legislation raising the Treasury Department’s borrowing authority, which would...
Economy

Jeremy Siegel Says CAPE Ratio Has a Big Bias

Prof. Siegel says that the CAPE ratio is based on “biased earnings data”- he explains that the changes in accounting standards in the 1990’s, forced the companies to charge large write offs when assets they hold fall in price. 18th October 2013 Analytical investors are always keen to invest at the right moment on a...