Finance Articles and definitions

Bank Of England Cuts Interest Rates to 4.5%
interest rate, UK interest rate, Bank of England, central bank, housing market, mortgage, mortgage lenders, base rate, repo rate
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CIBC Settles Enron Case With $2.4bn
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CIBC, Enron, Enron Corporation, Citigroup, J. P. Morgan Chase, class-action, class-action securities, Sarbanes-Oxley and Enron, WorldCom class-action
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Time Warner Pays $2.4bn To Settle AOL Dispute
TimeWarner, Time Warner, AOL, AOL Time Warner merger, legal settlement, quarterly results
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Why Bring Back the 30-Year Bond?
U.S. Government, U.S. Treasury, 30-year bond, 30-year, Treasury bond, bonds, budget, interest rates, deficit, 50-year bond, pension funds, insurance companies
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A&L Call For Data Sharing
Alliance & Leicester, A&L, consumer debt, debt levels, banking interim results, UK banking results, indebtedness, credit risk
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Clients Withdraw $5.7bn from Amvescap
Amvescap, fund manager, fund manager M&A, quarterly results, market practices, market timing, funds management, asset management, CI Financial, money managers
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Deloitte Audit Income Overtakes Tax
Audit, auditing, Deloitte & Touche, auditor, auditing, audit income, tax, tax advice, auditing and tax, Sarbanes-Oxley and auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley and accountants, Sarbanes-Oxley and foreign companies
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Qinetiq Doubles US Revenues With Acquisition
Qinetiq, U.S. Army, defence research, Apogen Technologies, Planning Systems, Apogen, Carlyle, Carlyle Group, Ministry of Defence, Pentagon, U.S. Army, roadside bombs, Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, U.S. Visit
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CI Financial Ready To Go Hostile for Amvescap
Amvescap, CI Financial, Candadian finance, Canadian fund management, mutual fund, mutual fund manager, fund manager, M&A, finance M&A
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European Commission Raids Intel
EU, European Commission, Intel and AMD, AMD and Intel, PC Makers, PC retailers, semiconductor industry, Japanese regulators, Japanese and semiconductors,Advance Micro Devices
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McKillop Joins RBS Board
Royal Bank of Scotland, Chairman, Deputy Chairman, AstraZeneca, corporate governance
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Shell $90m to Settle Restatement Lawsuit
Shell Group, Royal Dutch, employees, oil and gas, restatement, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, ERISA, ERISA plans, New Jersey, The Netherlands
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Internal Control Documentation Tools
Sarbanes-Oxley and automation, Sarbanes-Oxley automation, Sarbanes-Oxley tools, Sarbanes-Oxley and documentation, SOX and documentation, Basel II, Graham-Leach-Bliley, internal controls and documentation, documentation tools, internal controls testing, Sarbanes-Oxley and warehousing, control objectives, control objective documentation
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Verizon Posts 18% Increase With Wireless Help
Verizon, US telecoms, quarterly results, Verizon Wireless, wireless business, VoIP
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Cox Before Senate Banking Committee
Christopher Cox, SEC nominee, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, nominations, President Bush
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SEC Planning For Collapse of Big 4 Accounting Firm
SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sarbanes-Oxley and Big 4, Big 4, accounting firms, Sarbanes-Oxley and accounting, auditor, audit, auditors, auditing, Big Four, Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman, KPMG, Deloitte Touche,
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Creditex To Spin Out T-Zero
Creditex, T-Zero, trading platform, trading software, credit derivatives, electronic trading, trade details, Depository Trust Clearing Corporation, DTCC, sell-side, buy-side
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Morgan Stanley Appoints Chief Legal Officer
Morgan Stanley, chief legal officer, legal officer, regulatory, John Mack, Perelman, Credit Suisse First Boston
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SportingBet Buys ISC Entertainment for $39m
online gambling, gambling, internet gambling, SportingBet, ISC Entertainment, Antigua and gambling, U.S. gambling, gambling websites
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Fidelity Served With Wells Notice
Fidelity Investments, Fidelity, mutual funds, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wells Notice, SEC investigation, SEC and Boston, gifts and gratuities, traders and gifts, NASD
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Wachovia Posts Stellar Results
Wachovia, Wachovia Corporation, bank results, quarterly results, SouthTrust, Charlotte, North Carolina bank, credit quality, net income
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Oracle Buys i-Flex Stake
Oracle, Oracle M&A, banking software, bank software, banking technology, Indian software, banking programs, asset management software, Internet banking software
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Ebbers Handed 25 Years
Bernie Ebbers, WorldCom, fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley and fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley and WorldCom, Sarbanes-Oxley and sentence, conspiracy, securities fraud,
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CA Appoints Sun Man As Internal Audit
Computer Associates, CA, accounting, internal audit, audit, auditing, Audit and Compliance Committee, risk management, internal controls, section 404, VP, Sun Microsystems, SOX compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley and audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit
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Sarbanes-Oxley Consultant
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley jobs, Sarbanes-Oxley contracts, Sarbanes-Oxley and internal controls, Sarbanes-Oxley and testing, Sarbanes-Oxley and auditing, internal controls, section 404, IT governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and IT governance, SOX consultant,management testing, user access, staff segregation, testing strategies,auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Europe, IT Controls, 404 jobs
cont329634.htm

Validian Available On-Demand
Validian, Validian Corporation, OTC BB, VLDI, application-level security, Wrapped Apps, Software as a Service,enterprise-class software, Sarbanes-Oxley and applications, Sarbanes-Oxley and access levels
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Misys Acquires Almonde
Misys, Almonde, ALM, Almonde ALM, Basel II software, Basel II vendors, risk management vendors, asset and liability management, IAS, FTP, limits management, banking software, banking technology
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CyrusOne and SAS-70
CyrusOne, SAS-70, SAS-70 Type II, AICPA, American Institute of Certified Accountants, audit, control activities, Sarbanes-Oxley and SAS-70, Sarbanes-Oxley and audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and IT
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Amex Cuts CardSystems Loose
CardSystems, American Express, Visa, Visa USA, MasterCard, credit card, credit card transactions, transaction processing, identity breach, identity
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NYSE Seat Sold For $2.6m
NYSE, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE seat, Seat, Archipelago Holdings, electronic trading
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ActivCard Chairman Announced
ActivCard, ActivCard chairman,Chairman, identity management vendor, digital identities, digital identity, Komag, Ariba, corporate governance, board appointment
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Perjury Charge Against Scrushy Dropped
HealthSouth, Richard Scrushy, Scrushy, Justice Department, HealthSouth Corporation, HealthSouth and fraud, perjury, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, SEC civil case, insider trading
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Advanced Energy Receives Nasdaq Confirmation of Compliance
Advanced Energy Industries, Advanced Energy Industries and Nasdaq, Nasdaq listing, Sarbanes-Oxley and Nasdaq, Section 404 and Nasdaq
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Bank Of America Revenue Grows 12%
Bank of America, quarterly results, bank results,banking revenue, Wall Street analysts, Credit Cards, MBNA, loan portfolio, deposit levels
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Citigroup Fall Short in Q1
Citigroup, quarterly results
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Wal-Mart Applies For Bank Licence
Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Stores, U.S. retailing, credit card transactions, debit card transactions, industrial bank, industrial banks, Utah, Utah and banks
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OpenPages Grows by 100%
OpenPages, Sarbanes-Oxley tool vendors, Sarbanes-Oxley and automation, Sarbanes-Oxley and Asia, Kodak, GEICO, Hawaiian Airlines, Forrester Wave, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, risk management, compliance manangement, governance management, section 404, section 302
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OpenPages and Life Insurance
OpenPages, enterprise governance, risk management, compliance management, Sarbanes-Oxley and automation, Sarbanes-Oxley Express, SOX Express, Presidential Life Insurance
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Intel Quarterly $9.2bn Record Revenue
Intel, Intel press release, quarterly results, tech results, Paul Otellini,
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Merrill Beats Wall Street Expectations
Merrill Lynch, bank results, brokerage, broker, Wall Street, quarterly results, equity markets, debt markets, mortgages, bond trading, credit trading, investment banking,private client, asset management
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