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Freedom Debt Relief Quarterly Comment: New Federal Reserve, BEA Reports Show Economic Stabilization
CEO urges consumers to continue paying off debt in improving conditions - October 22, 2010 - Freedom Financial Network
Investment Consultants’ Forum Comes to Chicago for the First Time
This December, the Opal Financial Group will host the first annual Midwest edition of the Investment Consultants’ Forum, which will return to New York in the spring. - October 21, 2010 - Opal Financial Group
Auto Warranty Company US Direct Protect Announces Launch Date for ExtendedWarranty411.com
Extended Warranty 411 will contain the most relevant and recent Auto Warranty and Vehicle Service Contract information by interfacing multiple RSS feeds throughout the Internet. Press Releases, Articles and even blog posts will get funneled into Extended Warranty 411. Duplicate content will get filtered out so that only one version of each piece of content will get delivered to the reader. - October 20, 2010 - National Warranty Services dba US Direct Protect
Pendo Systems, Inc. Continues to Expand Team to Support Company Growth
Pendo Systems, Inc., a leading provider of financial accounting solutions, today announced that Christy Beni has joined the company as Senior Business Analyst. Ms. Beni will be working in their product management group reporting directly to Teri Henry, VP of Product Management at Pendo Systems. - October 20, 2010 - Pendo Systems Inc.
Andrew Conway, One of Australia’s Youngest CEOs, Speaks About His Big Plans for the Australian Accounting Profession
In the October issue of Business Review Australia, Andrew Conway, the CEO of the National Institute of Accountants, speaks about what it takes to lead one of the nation’s peak accounting bodies. “I believe it is important to have an appreciation of the broader context of the impact of... - October 20, 2010 - WDM Group
China’s Hunger for Wood Raw-Material Pushes Timber Prices Upward, Increasing the Importation of Logs and Wood Chips to Record Levels in 2010, Reports the WRQ
The forest industry in China is continuing its expansion, and with limited domestic timber resources, importation of logs and wood chips are at an all-time high, especially as tight supply of domestic logs has increased local log prices to new highs in the 2Q/10, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. - October 20, 2010 - Wood Resources International LLC
Unified Software Introduces Bank Data Download Service
Responding to changes in the UK banking system, leading UK bank validation specialist Unified Software has launched a new bank data download service, ensuring that customers automatically have access to the latest reference data at all times. - October 20, 2010 - Unified Software Ltd
Experts in Venture Capital Expose the Reality of the Economy in Latin America
Latino Business Review –This important issue explores the commonly known but rarely understood world of Venture Capital. Learn step by step its important influence on new companies with high growth potential. Latino Business Review presents the results of a recent survey conducted by The... - October 19, 2010 - WDM Group
Private Investors Demand Portfolio Consulting That Works
The Great Recession confronted wealthy private investors with two difficulties: the market and the ill-advise of their private bankers. It is time for these investors to finally get access to institutional allocation knowledge. Panthera Solutions, an Alternative Investment Consultancy in Monte-Carlo, now offers its institutional portfolio strategy also to High-Net-Worth-Individuals. A value-adding knowledge injection for a robust asset allocation. - October 17, 2010 - Panthera Solutions
Bellwether Community Credit Union Launches CheckDeposit24
Members can now make deposits 24/7 through an innovative remote deposit capture service. - October 17, 2010 - Bellwether Community Credit Union
Uniastrum Bank Sponsors Russia - Cyprus Business Forum
In line with its rollout strategy and the strengthening of business ties between Russia and Cyprus, Uniastrum Bank, member of the Bank of Cyprus Group, sponsored the Russia-Cyprus Business Forum held in Nicosia as part of the official visit to the Republic of Cyprus by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. - October 16, 2010 - Uniastrum Bank
Internet Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Jesse Willms Supports an Additional 25 Entrepreneurs Through Kiva
An entrepreneur himself, Jesse Willms knows the struggles of starting a business. Therefore, he chose the charity Kiva, which is a microfinancing charity that lends money to third world entrepreneurs. - October 15, 2010 - Jesse Willms
Avista Solutions Announces Early Adoption of Fannie Mae’s EarlyCheck
New integration allows Avista Solutions customers to recognize and solve problems early in the loan process - October 15, 2010 - Avista Solutions
ktMINE Releases First Edition of New Intangibles Licensing Research Series, ktMINE Findings
The ktMINE Findings series uncovers and reports on licensing trends across specific industries, types of intangibles, and other notable areas. - October 15, 2010 - ktMINE
Dana Cohen Returns to KarshHagan
Dana Cohen returns to KarshHagan as the Account Director for their TD AMERITRADE Institutional account. - October 15, 2010 - KarshHagan
A Healthy Business with a Debt Problem – is There a Way Out? (Part 1) FRP Advisory Discusses
Nick O’Reilly, Partner at FRP Advisory LLP, the specialist restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm discusses the options available to healthy businesses with a debt problem. - October 15, 2010 - FRP Advisory LLP
Venture Capital Continues to Grow in Latin America
In October’s edition, Latino Business Review presents an interesting article about the growth of venture capital in Latin America as a model for emerging business financing. In this article, Norma Hernández, EGADE professor gives her opinion about this phenomenon in the region and... - October 14, 2010 - WDM Group
Suncorp Life Executive GM, David Carter, Explains Why the Federal Government Must Reform Its Superannuation Policies
In the October issue of Business Review Australia, David Carter, the Suncorp Life Executive GM, discusses what the Federal Government must do to reform the nation’s superannuation system. A recent survey by Suncorp Life found 49 percent of Australians don’t understand the... - October 14, 2010 - WDM Group
New Report by MyPrivateBanking Shows That Fee-Only Financial Advice is Gaining Ground in Germany
A new report by MyPrivateBanking Research reveals that fee-only financial advice isn’t very common yet. It shows also that up to now high net worth individuals are most likely to have gained experience with fee-only financial advice. But with new regulations and laws coming around in the EU, the ground will be prepared for fee-only financial advice to attract more customers. - October 14, 2010 - MyPrivateBanking GmbH
Advance My Sales Launches AdvancePlus+ Credit Improvement Merchant Cash Advance
Advance My Sales, a Newport Beach, California-based Merchant Cash Advance and Business Funding Company, has officially launched AdvancePlus+ Credit Improvement for business owners seeking a Merchant Cash Advance. President, Eric Shasha, said “This is a great service that not only helps... - October 14, 2010 - Advance My Sales
Zap Payments Becomes an Official Sponsor of Children’s Miracle Network
Credit Card Processing Company Zap Payments Offers Rebates on Credit Card Processing Benefiting Hundreds of Children’s Hospitals. - October 13, 2010 - Zap Payments
Tucker, Albin and Associates Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work in Collections
Tucker, Albin and Associates, Inc. has been selected as one of the Best Places to Work in Collections by insideARM.com and Best Companies Group. - October 13, 2010 - Tucker, Albin and Associates, Inc.
Opalesque Zurich Roundtable - Essential Updates for Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Investors
“Relocating to Switzerland”: Experiences of New York and London hedge funds who moved here. Recently, an increasing number of hedge fund managers have either launched funds from Switzerland or moved their whole operation into the country. They benefit from the presence of those end-investors: not only represent the Swiss pension fund and insurance industries a lot of capital, but more importantly, this group has endorsed hedge funds relatively early on. - October 13, 2010 - Opalesque Ltd
Freedom Financial Network, Glow Foundation Offer Budgeting Tips for New Students
Bay-area partnership seeks to improve financial literacy, reduce debt among young adults. - October 13, 2010 - Freedom Financial Network
Sparkbase Announces ApproveYourCard.com Launch
SparkBase announces an online portal to submit and manage custom gift and loyalty card orders. - October 12, 2010 - SparkBase LLC
Westcore Capital Limited Reduces Fees for Futures Commissions
Westcore Capital Limited, one of the most competitive brokerage service firms in Luxembourg, has recently released its new reduced futures commission structures that provide active investors and traders with simply reduced exchange product fees and discounts for volume trades. - October 12, 2010 - Westcore Capital Limited
AscendoSoft - Whitepaper Outlines Workflow Improvements for Banks and Credit Unions
AscendoSoft Inc., a software and services company, announces availability of a new whitepaper for the Open Solutions DNA marketplace. The whitepaper, named “Beyond Address Cleansing: The Value of Address Management Workflow Improvements in DNA” outlines issues with the manual efforts as a result of undeliverable addresses and how AscendoSoft can automate these processes. - October 09, 2010 - AscendoSoft Inc.
The Twelfth Annual Endowment and Foundation Forum Returns to Boston
This November, the Opal Financial Group will return to Boston to host the Endowment and Foundation Forum for the twelfth year. The forum will provide for the free exchange of ideas concerning portfolio planning and investment strategies. Rather than focusing on a particular investment style, this... - October 09, 2010 - Opal Financial Group
Five Key Consumer Trends for Australian Financial Services Now Available at ReportsandReports
While the Australian financial services market has had a difficult couple of years with write downs and losses from major banks, it remains both profitable and stable. - October 09, 2010 - marketsandmarkets
Lance Futures Releases New and Innovative Trading Platform for Futures and Forex Trading
A new and innovative trading platform was released by Lance Futures in order to provide access to various electronic points of some futures markets in the world. With this new trading platform traders are allowed to utilize the worldwide web to access their current and active accounts to properly place, keep orders, get hold of the condition of their active orders, verify balances, see current positions, verify filled trades and recover quotes. - October 08, 2010 - Lance Futures
AttisCorp Financial Group in Moncton, NB Providing Financial Services Expands Its Team
AttisCorp Financial Group, a leading full service financial planning advisory practice in Atlantic Canada, announced today that it has added a group health and dental specialist to its ranks. - October 08, 2010 - Attis Corp Financial Group Inc.
The Complete All in One Maxima Combi 500 Card Personalization Solution for Financial & Multi-Technology Cards
CIM USA is proud to announce the launch of the all-in-one Maxima Combi 500. This all-in-one solution is capable of encoding, embossing, thermally printing, and encoding RFID cards all in one pass. The Combi 500 is a great solution for financial institutions such as banks and credit unions. It is also a great solution for instant issuance. - October 08, 2010 - CIM USA Inc
Amer Chaudri's New Release is Rare Main-Street Perspective That Discusses Financial/Economic Crisis from Inside Major Banking Institution; Released by Dog Ear Publishing
For more than 15 years, Amer Chaudri has spent his professional life working in international finance. He offers a fascinating history of his previous employer, Citibank, as well as an objective assessment of their actions, past and present. Diatribe explores the financial world from the inside, using layman’s language and easy-to-understand explanations to make the current economic crises more readable. - October 08, 2010 - Dog Ear Publishing
Financier Stanislav Velinov to Advise USD 170 Million Debt Refinancing
Financier Stanislav Velinov through his Opus Supremus Group (Opus) has been awarded an Exclusive Mandate to act as an Advisor in connection with a USD 170 Million Corporate debt refinancing. - October 08, 2010 - Opus Supremus Group
Wayne Allyn Root to Co-Host “Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies” on October 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET
Wayne Allyn Root will co-host “Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies” www.winningstrategies.net on October 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Wayne Allyn Root is a former anchorman and TV host on Financial News Network (now known as CNBC), his careers as an CEO, entrepreneur and politician... - October 07, 2010 - Corporate Strategies, LLC
RegaloCards Micro Money Transfer Network Overtakes Western Union in Number of Locations in Its First Latin American Market
RegaloCard Rapidly Grows to 365 Locations In El Salvador - October 07, 2010 - RegaloCard
Mercom Capital Group Reports Funding and Merger and Acquisition Activity on Healthcare IT for Third Quarter 2010, Funding Activity Down, M&A Transactions Up in Q3
Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global communications and consulting firm, today released healthcare IT merger and acquisition (M&A) and funding activity for the third quarter of 2010. Funding activity was down in Q3 at $62M for seven transactions compared to $118M for six transactions during... - October 07, 2010 - Mercom Capital Group, llc
CIMCON Software Announces Participation in ISACA's IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Conference in Boston Massachusetts
CIMCON Software, the pioneering Market Leader in Spreadsheet Control and Compliance solutions, today announced its participation in ISACA’s ‘IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Conference’ in Boston, Massachusetts from October 6 to 8. At the conference, participants will discover... - October 07, 2010 - CIMCON Software Inc
Pivotal Payments Partners with BizTracker to Offer Payment Processing Solution
Pivotal Payments, a leading payment processor, and Biztracker, provider of Infinity Point of Sale (POS) software, announced a business partnership that will integrate Pivotal Payments’ debit and credit card processing into Biztracker’s software solution. Biztracker Infinity delivers a... - October 07, 2010 - Pivotal Payments
Mortgage Delivery Specialists (MDS) Successfully Completes SAS 70 Audit
Mortgage Delivery Specialists LLC (MDS), the premier provider of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae Mortgage Delivery Services is pleased to announce that it has recently completed a SAS 70 Type 1 audit of its mortgage loan analysis, servicing portfolio analysis and Agency securitization... - October 07, 2010 - Mortgage Delivery Specialists LLC
American Agency Participates in European Collection Congress
The President of Credit Decisions International, Ltd (Elk Grove Village, IL) attended the Federation of European National Collection Association’s (FENCA) Congress and Annual General Meeting in Athens, Greece (held September 23-26, 2010). - October 07, 2010 - Credit Decisions International, Ltd
Commodities Online LLC Announces New Copper Contract
A new contract was released to subscribers. This contract is for copper ore and the length and investment opportunity for subscribers is unique. - October 07, 2010 - commoditiesonline.com
Aero & Marine Tax Professionals Obtains Sales Tax Exemption for Former Navy Flier
Leasing Company Owner Gets Sales Tax Exemption for Aircraft Purchase. - October 07, 2010 - Aero & Marine Tax Professionals
Aero & Marine Tax Professionals Obtains Sales Tax Exemption for Aircraft Management Company
Aircraft Management Company Gets Sales Tax Exemption for Aircraft Purchase. - October 07, 2010 - Aero & Marine Tax Professionals
JK Harris Employees Rally to Support Local Trident United Way
After a two week pledge campaign to rally support for Trident United Way, employees at JK Harris and Company, the nation’s largest tax representation firm, celebrated the end of their second successful pledge drive campaign last Friday. “Whenever the company has asked our employees to... - October 07, 2010 - JK Harris & Company
Ben Zuckerman Joins the CardReady team
CardReady – the Los Angeles and London headquartered specialty merchant processor, today announced that Ben Zuckerman has joined the company as Director of High Risk Business. Mr. Zuckerman will be responsible for the business unit which specializes in providing merchant services to accounts... - October 07, 2010 - CardReady, LLC
Leading Global Pharmaceutical Company Selects Joint Taulia and OB10 Solution
The solution includes dynamic discounting and will be installed in weeks to meet an ambitious timeline for a global rollout - October 07, 2010 - Taulia Inc.
Bradley J. Homant, Partner, KPMG LLP to Speak at KC’s FASB Exposure Drafts on Financial Statements, Equity/Liabilities Project & Leases
The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Bradley J. Homant, Partner, KPMG LLP will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled: “FASB Exposure Drafts on Financial Statements,... - October 07, 2010 - The Knowledge Group
Helen Sipsas is Awarded Certified Financial Planner™ Designation
Helen Sipsas, MBA, CFP®, a Managing Principal of Peak Wealth Advisors with offices in San Luis Obispo, CA and Pasadena, CA has been authorized by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) to use the certification marks CFP®, Certified Financial Planner™ and CFP... - October 06, 2010 - Peak Wealth Advisors
Official 911 Mortgage Loan Modification Software Now Meets All HAMP, NON-HAMP, and HAFA Requirements
In meeting the HAMP, NON-HAMP, and HAFA requirements, Official 911’s Mortgage Loan Modification Software allows homeowners to submit a complete package, which ensures them a quick approval. - October 06, 2010 - Official 911