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Bermuda-based RAM Holdings Ltd. announced yesterday that Paul Wollmann has joined the company as managing director, structured and asset-backed finance.
Mr. Wollmann will be responsible for underwriting transactions involving asset-backed securities ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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I’ve never wanted a BlackBerry and the 24-hour access to e-mail it provides. I figure I ought to enjoy my time away from a computer to read, think or listen to podcasts on my iPod.
So I was initially dismissive of the prospects of checking Google Inc...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) finished slightly lower yesterday in light trading.
The share price of Kentucky Fried Chicken Bermuda Ltd. fell by 4.2 percent, or 25 cents, to $5.75, as 3,000 of its shares traded.
BF&M Ltd. also slippe...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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hat?s the fuss over the iPhone anyway? I should get it, as I am a long-time Apple fan. It?s a cell phone with Internet functions lashed together with Apple?s iPod!
While many people have gone totally bonkers over the phone, it?s wise not to completel...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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Ahmed Elamin
Government?s proposal to allow complete foreign ownership of any telecommunications company operating in Bermuda has sent shock waves through some predominantly locally-owned companies.
Now heads of those businesses have requested a meeting with Nele...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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A young Bermudian is embarking on a maritime career thanks in part to a friendship between Marine and Ports director Francis Richardson and Jens Alers of ship and crew management company Atlantic Marine Limited Partnership, which has offices in Hamil...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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Hardy Underwriting Plc could become the latest Lloyd?s of London insurer to move to Bermuda.
The revelation came from Hardy?s chief executive officer Barbara Merry, who told Bloomberg News yesterday: ?The competitive advantage is enormous. I?m slight...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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Validus Holdings Ltd. became Bermuda's third post-Katrina start-up reinsurer to file to offer shares to the public.
Validus, which was originally backed by Aquiline Capital Partners, a private-equity firm run by Jeffrey Greenberg, the deposed chief e...
DATE: Jan 17, 2007
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First-time home buyers can now buy a Bermuda property valued at up to $1 million without having to provide a deposit.
The Bank of Bermuda said its new “Home Start Mortgage”, launched yesterday, would also allow customers to opt to make interest-only ...
DATE: Jan 16, 2007
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) — European policymakers yesterday struck a confident note on the euro zone’s economic outlook and left in place market expectations for the European Central Bank to raise interest rates in March.“Slovenia is entering a currency un...
DATE: Jan 16, 2007
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