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Flawed deposit insurance programs need reform, banking expert says
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Government insurance programs that safeguard bank deposits should be reformed to ease taxpayers' undue stake in propping up the nation's banking system, according to research by a University of Illinois finance professor.
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Banking on outlier detection: Simple computer model could act as early warning system for failing banks
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Recent bank failures point to the continuing need for vigilance by regulators and investors. Now, a report in the International Journal of Operational Research, discusses the possibility of an early-warning system that s ...
Research: No evidence for 'too big to fail' policies
Apr 24, 2009 |
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The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to ...
World Bank musters $5.5 billion for solar projects
Dec 09, 2009 |
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The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change.
French woman asks court for dead husband's sperm
Sep 23, 2009 |
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A 39-year-old widow asked a French court Wednesday to allow her to retrieve her late husband's frozen sperm so that she can be inseminated and have his child.
UK botanists bank 10% of world's plant species
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a long-term project to protect all endangered species, they said Thursday.
In search of the root causes of the 2008 crisis: New York Fed to hear new theory on financial meltdown
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anjan Thakor, finance professor at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, will present a new theory on the causes of the financial crisis to a meeting of the New York Federal Reserve ...
Effective global regulation
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Government ownership of banks – something unthinkable until very recently for the 'Anglo-Saxon' model of capitalism –- became a reality early in 2008. This was a policy response to an unprecedented global financial crisis, ...
Businesses vulnerable to cyber attacks
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Most of us think cyber crooks cast their phishing lines mostly to try to hook everyday consumers. But some businesses across the country have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars vanish from their bank accounts after cyber ...
Bogus e-mails from FDIC link computer users to viruses, says computer forensics expert
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Cyber criminals are using fake messages claiming to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to deliver a virus capable of stealing unsuspecting victims' bank passwords and other sensitive ...
Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find.
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