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Butterfield Bank has now opened its first fund service office in North America with a dozen employees.
By the end of this year the new office in downtown Halifax is expected to employ 40 people for Butterfield Fund Services and may eventually may hav...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Tyco shareholders have agreed a reverse one-for-four stock split ahead of the company’s planned break-up into three publicly traded companies.
The move will have the effect of reducing the number of common shares issued and outstanding at present fro...
DATE: Mar 09, 2007
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Shared technology tracks rats, mosquitoes and even criminals in Bermuda. It also keeps record of building maintenance and tax valuation and sharing crucial information with security services guarding the Island’s border entry points.
That at its simp...
DATE: Mar 08, 2007
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Twelve million dollars worth of shares in Butterfield Bank were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday in the wake of the local bank being given a favourable upgrading of its financial strength by rating agency Moody’s.
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DATE: Mar 08, 2007
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Butterfield Bank has received improved ratings from financial research and analysis specialists Moody’s, underlining its status as the Island’s leading local bank.
Its long-term deposit rating has gone up three notches from a “upper-medium” low risk ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
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Bacardi will have no problem raising the estimated $5 billion needed to buy the Swedish makers of the world-famous Absolut Vodka brand.
The Bermuda-based company has been in contact with the government of Sweden to express interest in acquiring the s...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
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Cheaper airfares and lower gas station fuel prices were part of the reason for the monthly inflation rate dropping from 3.4 percent to 2.8 percent between December and January.
The latest Consumer Price Index figures also show a fall in clothing and ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2007
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Entering Lana Flood’s new shop in St. George’s is like walking into an Aladdin’s cave filled with a wonderfully diverse selection of odds and ends that range from bathroom products to general household nic-nacs, second-hand books, and her own home-ma...
DATE: Mar 06, 2007
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Former US Labour Secretary Alexis Herman became the first African/American to hold that office when she was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
It was another ground-breaking step for the Alabama woman whose career achievements make up an im...
DATE: Mar 05, 2007
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Leading XL Capital executive Jerry M. de St. Paer retires from the company this coming Monday but is to remain within the business world by joining American International Group (AIG) next month as a senior vice-president.
The news that the 65-year-ol...
DATE: Mar 02, 2007
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