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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Inc.'s ads used to challenge consumers to "think different". Now a website wants fans of the company's products to date different, too.
Called Cupidtino, an homage to Apple's home base in Cupertino, California, the site aim...
DATE: Jun 23, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of a watchdog panel on yesterday pressed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on looming losses for banks and foreclosure relief for struggling homeowners, as he assured them that taxpayers are recovering their investment fro...
DATE: Jun 23, 2010
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch insurer Aegon is looking at selling the life reinsurance arm of its Transamerica business in the United States, to focus instead on life insurance and pensions and asset management services, and said it would also slim dow...
DATE: Jun 23, 2010
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PARIS (Bloomberg) - Banco Santander SA, Spain's biggest bank, is trying to resurrect talks to combine its US business with M&T Bank Corp. after negotiations collapsed last month, said three people with knowledge of the matter.
Santander and M&T recen...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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The function of internal audit has had to adapt to the change in risk as a result of the global economic crisis.
That was the finding of a group of experts speaking at the bermuda Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) panel discussion h...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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The financial crisis has turned up the heat on Bermuda to increase transparency and supervision of captive formations, as it bids to attract new business to maintain growth despite a soft insurance market, according to alternative risk-transfer exper...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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Argo Re Ltd. and its subsidiaries have been affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a" by AM Best Co.
Best also has affirmed the ICR of "bbb" and debt ratings of its parent holding company, Be...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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ATHENS (Bloomberg) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said sceptical investors will in time come to believe his measures to reduce the European Union's (EU) second-biggest budget deficit are changing the way his country operates and avert conce...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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Bermudians in the market for a home are being promised a new kind of "peace of mind" by engineer Philip Mason.
Mr. Mason, who recently returned home after living in the US, is offering home inspections for everything from the roof to the tank through...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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The Ministry of Finance said it has satisfied the $200 million five-year loan obligation that was due last week at a competitive short-term rate.
Financial Secretary Donald Scott said that the option, which was taken up on June 2005, was built into t...
DATE: Jun 22, 2010
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