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The role of the chief information officer (CIO) - the official name given to the head cheese of IT at many companies - has always been very hazy in my mind. Having interviewed a few of them at companies large and small, I have come to view the job de...
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Online fraudsters are being targeted by First Atlantic Commerce's (FAC) new suite of risk prevention services launched yesterday.
Bermuda-based FAC unveiled its 'card-not-present' consumer pre-authentication and data risk management programmes to red...
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LONDON (AP) — Leading British hedge fund executives denied yesterday that they have been profiteering from the turmoil inflicted by the world financial crisis on the country's banking system, even while conceding they have a major public relations pr...
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Foster Wheeler Ltd.'s change of domicile from Bermuda to Switzerland is expected to be completed by next Monday, after shareholders approved the move yesterday.
Completion of the redomestication remains subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Florida fund manager Arthur Nadel, whose family reported him missing in early January, was arrested yesterday on criminal charges of securities fraud, US officials said.
New York FBI spokeswoman Monica McLean said Nadel — head of...
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Florida's largest private homeowners insurer — State Farm Florida — is planning to stop selling property insurance in the state after it was not given permission to raise its rates.
State Farm spokesman Chris Neal said yes...
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Bermuda-based insurer Hiscox yesterday announced the launch of its US-based team terrorism underwriters.
The company said it had also introduced increased its policy limits up to $100 million in central urban areas.
The team will be led by former Ame...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general issued a subpoena to former Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain yesterday in a probe into bonuses paid to the firm's employees just days before its takeover by Bank of America Corp .
"The fact tha...
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BERLIN (AP) - With my trench coat and dark glasses, I looked like a rumpled, portly version of Jason Bourne or James Bond as I stood by the Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, famed as the transfer point for captured spies between the East a...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks climbed yesterday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq up for a third straight day as a rare bit of encouraging news on the earnings front from companies, including American Express, offset fresh signs that consumers remain...
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