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Suncorp Life Executive GM, David Carter, Explains Why the Federal Government Must Reform Its Superannuation Policies

In the October issue of Business Review Australia, David Carter, the Suncorp Life Executive GM, discusses what the Federal Government must do to reform the nation’s superannuation system. A recent survey by Suncorp Life found 49 percent of Australians don’t understand the... - October 14, 2010 - WDM Group

New Report by MyPrivateBanking Shows That Fee-Only Financial Advice is Gaining Ground in Germany

A new report by MyPrivateBanking Research reveals that fee-only financial advice isn’t very common yet. It shows also that up to now high net worth individuals are most likely to have gained experience with fee-only financial advice. But with new regulations and laws coming around in the EU, the ground will be prepared for fee-only financial advice to attract more customers. - October 14, 2010 - MyPrivateBanking GmbH

Advance My Sales Launches AdvancePlus+ Credit Improvement Merchant Cash Advance

Advance My Sales, a Newport Beach, California-based Merchant Cash Advance and Business Funding Company, has officially launched AdvancePlus+ Credit Improvement for business owners seeking a Merchant Cash Advance. President, Eric Shasha, said “This is a great service that not only helps... - October 14, 2010 - Advance My Sales

Zap Payments Becomes an Official Sponsor of Children’s Miracle Network

Credit Card Processing Company Zap Payments Offers Rebates on Credit Card Processing Benefiting Hundreds of Children’s Hospitals. - October 13, 2010 - Zap Payments

Tucker, Albin and Associates Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work in Collections

Tucker, Albin and Associates, Inc. has been selected as one of the Best Places to Work in Collections by insideARM.com and Best Companies Group. - October 13, 2010 - Tucker, Albin and Associates, Inc.

Freedom Financial Network, Glow Foundation Offer Budgeting Tips for New Students

Bay-area partnership seeks to improve financial literacy, reduce debt among young adults. - October 13, 2010 - Freedom Financial Network

Opalesque Zurich Roundtable - Essential Updates for Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Investors

“Relocating to Switzerland”: Experiences of New York and London hedge funds who moved here. Recently, an increasing number of hedge fund managers have either launched funds from Switzerland or moved their whole operation into the country. They benefit from the presence of those end-investors: not only represent the Swiss pension fund and insurance industries a lot of capital, but more importantly, this group has endorsed hedge funds relatively early on. - October 13, 2010 - Opalesque Ltd

Sparkbase Announces ApproveYourCard.com Launch

Sparkbase Announces ApproveYourCard.com Launch

SparkBase announces an online portal to submit and manage custom gift and loyalty card orders. - October 12, 2010 - SparkBase LLC

Westcore Capital Limited Reduces Fees for Futures Commissions

Westcore Capital Limited, one of the most competitive brokerage service firms in Luxembourg, has recently released its new reduced futures commission structures that provide active investors and traders with simply reduced exchange product fees and discounts for volume trades. - October 12, 2010 - Westcore Capital Limited

Five Key Consumer Trends for Australian Financial Services Now Available at ReportsandReports

While the Australian financial services market has had a difficult couple of years with write downs and losses from major banks, it remains both profitable and stable. - October 09, 2010 - marketsandmarkets

The Twelfth Annual Endowment and Foundation Forum Returns to Boston

This November, the Opal Financial Group will return to Boston to host the Endowment and Foundation Forum for the twelfth year. The forum will provide for the free exchange of ideas concerning portfolio planning and investment strategies. Rather than focusing on a particular investment style, this... - October 09, 2010 - Opal Financial Group

AscendoSoft - Whitepaper Outlines Workflow Improvements for Banks and Credit Unions

AscendoSoft Inc., a software and services company, announces availability of a new whitepaper for the Open Solutions DNA marketplace. The whitepaper, named “Beyond Address Cleansing: The Value of Address Management Workflow Improvements in DNA” outlines issues with the manual efforts as a result of undeliverable addresses and how AscendoSoft can automate these processes. - October 09, 2010 - AscendoSoft Inc.

Lance Futures Releases New and Innovative Trading Platform for Futures and Forex Trading

A new and innovative trading platform was released by Lance Futures in order to provide access to various electronic points of some futures markets in the world. With this new trading platform traders are allowed to utilize the worldwide web to access their current and active accounts to properly place, keep orders, get hold of the condition of their active orders, verify balances, see current positions, verify filled trades and recover quotes. - October 08, 2010 - Lance Futures

AttisCorp Financial Group in Moncton, NB Providing Financial Services Expands Its Team

AttisCorp Financial Group, a leading full service financial planning advisory practice in Atlantic Canada, announced today that it has added a group health and dental specialist to its ranks. - October 08, 2010 - Attis Corp Financial Group Inc.

Financier Stanislav Velinov to Advise USD 170 Million Debt Refinancing

Financier Stanislav Velinov through his Opus Supremus Group (Opus) has been awarded an Exclusive Mandate to act as an Advisor in connection with a USD 170 Million Corporate debt refinancing. - October 08, 2010 - Opus Supremus Group

Amer Chaudri's New Release is Rare Main-Street Perspective That Discusses Financial/Economic Crisis from Inside Major Banking Institution; Released by Dog Ear Publishing

For more than 15 years, Amer Chaudri has spent his professional life working in international finance. He offers a fascinating history of his previous employer, Citibank, as well as an objective assessment of their actions, past and present. Diatribe explores the financial world from the inside, using layman’s language and easy-to-understand explanations to make the current economic crises more readable. - October 08, 2010 - Dog Ear Publishing

The Complete All in One Maxima Combi 500 Card Personalization Solution for Financial & Multi-Technology Cards

CIM USA is proud to announce the launch of the all-in-one Maxima Combi 500. This all-in-one solution is capable of encoding, embossing, thermally printing, and encoding RFID cards all in one pass. The Combi 500 is a great solution for financial institutions such as banks and credit unions. It is also a great solution for instant issuance. - October 08, 2010 - CIM USA Inc

Wayne Allyn Root to Co-Host “Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies” on October 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET

Wayne Allyn Root will co-host “Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies” www.winningstrategies.net on October 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Wayne Allyn Root is a former anchorman and TV host on Financial News Network (now known as CNBC), his careers as an CEO, entrepreneur and politician... - October 07, 2010 - Corporate Strategies, LLC

RegaloCards Micro Money Transfer Network Overtakes Western Union in Number of Locations in Its First Latin American Market

RegaloCard Rapidly Grows to 365 Locations In El Salvador - October 07, 2010 - RegaloCard

Aero & Marine Tax Professionals Obtains Sales Tax Exemption for Former Navy Flier

Leasing Company Owner Gets Sales Tax Exemption for Aircraft Purchase. - October 07, 2010 - Aero & Marine Tax Professionals

Leading Global Pharmaceutical Company Selects Joint Taulia and OB10 Solution

The solution includes dynamic discounting and will be installed in weeks to meet an ambitious timeline for a global rollout - October 07, 2010 - Taulia Inc.

Ben Zuckerman Joins the CardReady team

CardReady – the Los Angeles and London headquartered specialty merchant processor, today announced that Ben Zuckerman has joined the company as Director of High Risk Business. Mr. Zuckerman will be responsible for the business unit which specializes in providing merchant services to accounts... - October 07, 2010 - CardReady, LLC

JK Harris Employees Rally to Support Local Trident United Way

After a two week pledge campaign to rally support for Trident United Way, employees at JK Harris and Company, the nation’s largest tax representation firm, celebrated the end of their second successful pledge drive campaign last Friday. “Whenever the company has asked our employees to... - October 07, 2010 - JK Harris & Company

Aero & Marine Tax Professionals Obtains Sales Tax Exemption for Aircraft Management Company

Aircraft Management Company Gets Sales Tax Exemption for Aircraft Purchase. - October 07, 2010 - Aero & Marine Tax Professionals

Commodities Online LLC Announces New Copper Contract

A new contract was released to subscribers. This contract is for copper ore and the length and investment opportunity for subscribers is unique. - October 07, 2010 - commoditiesonline.com

American Agency Participates in European Collection Congress

The President of Credit Decisions International, Ltd (Elk Grove Village, IL) attended the Federation of European National Collection Association’s (FENCA) Congress and Annual General Meeting in Athens, Greece (held September 23-26, 2010). - October 07, 2010 - Credit Decisions International, Ltd

Mortgage Delivery Specialists (MDS) Successfully Completes SAS 70 Audit

Mortgage Delivery Specialists LLC (MDS), the premier provider of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae Mortgage Delivery Services is pleased to announce that it has recently completed a SAS 70 Type 1 audit of its mortgage loan analysis, servicing portfolio analysis and Agency securitization... - October 07, 2010 - Mortgage Delivery Specialists LLC

Pivotal Payments Partners with BizTracker to Offer Payment Processing Solution

Pivotal Payments, a leading payment processor, and Biztracker, provider of Infinity Point of Sale (POS) software, announced a business partnership that will integrate Pivotal Payments’ debit and credit card processing into Biztracker’s software solution. Biztracker Infinity delivers a... - October 07, 2010 - Pivotal Payments

CIMCON Software Announces Participation in ISACA's IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Conference in Boston Massachusetts

CIMCON Software, the pioneering Market Leader in Spreadsheet Control and Compliance solutions, today announced its participation in ISACA’s ‘IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Conference’ in Boston, Massachusetts from October 6 to 8. At the conference, participants will discover... - October 07, 2010 - CIMCON Software Inc

Mercom Capital Group Reports Funding and Merger and Acquisition Activity on Healthcare IT for Third Quarter 2010, Funding Activity Down, M&A Transactions Up in Q3

Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global communications and consulting firm, today released healthcare IT merger and acquisition (M&A) and funding activity for the third quarter of 2010. Funding activity was down in Q3 at $62M for seven transactions compared to $118M for six transactions during... - October 07, 2010 - Mercom Capital Group, llc

Bradley J. Homant, Partner, KPMG LLP to Speak at KC’s FASB Exposure Drafts on Financial Statements, Equity/Liabilities Project & Leases

The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Bradley J. Homant, Partner, KPMG LLP will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled: “FASB Exposure Drafts on Financial Statements,... - October 07, 2010 - The Knowledge Group

Helen Sipsas is Awarded Certified Financial Planner™ Designation

Helen Sipsas is Awarded Certified Financial Planner™ Designation

Helen Sipsas, MBA, CFP®, a Managing Principal of Peak Wealth Advisors with offices in San Luis Obispo, CA and Pasadena, CA has been authorized by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) to use the certification marks CFP®, Certified Financial Planner™ and CFP... - October 06, 2010 - Peak Wealth Advisors

Official 911 Mortgage Loan Modification Software Now Meets All HAMP, NON-HAMP, and HAFA Requirements

Official 911 Mortgage Loan Modification Software Now Meets All HAMP, NON-HAMP, and HAFA Requirements

In meeting the HAMP, NON-HAMP, and HAFA requirements, Official 911’s Mortgage Loan Modification Software allows homeowners to submit a complete package, which ensures them a quick approval. - October 06, 2010 - Official 911

Taulia Will Showcase Its Dynamic Discounting Suite at AFP 2010 in San Antonio, TX

Taulia will demo a new way for Treasurers to invest excess liquidity short-term and risk-free at double-digit returns - October 06, 2010 - Taulia Inc.

FRP Advisory LLP Announces Two Non-Executive Appointments to Its Board

FRP Advisory LLP announces the appointment of Mr Nigel Guy as Non-Executive Chairman to the Board and Mr David Adams as a Non-Executive Board Member. - October 06, 2010 - FRP Advisory LLP

AvStar Aviation Group, Inc. Announces Additional Advisors to Management

AvStar Aviation Group, Inc. (PinkSheets: AAVG) announces the addition of the following individuals as advisors to the AvStar management team. - October 04, 2010 - AvStar Aviation Group, Inc.

Padgett Welcomes New Employee Shanna Wooster

Shanna Wooster has joined Padgett Business Services, a company specializing in financial reporting and tax consulting services for independent businesses with less than 20 employees. As the Marketing & Office Administrator Shanna will be primarily responsible managing marketing campaigns,... - October 03, 2010 - Padgett Business Services

One2One Lending Personal Lending Article Launch

Articles written by experts to help guide the personal lending relationship. The Resource Center at One2One Lending now includes an extensive list of articles to learn from. These articles are written by experts in the personal lending field and are presented in a thoughtful and easy to use format. - October 03, 2010 - One2One Lending

Shoreline Capital Advisors Joins MyCFOnetwork in Houston, TX

MyCFOnetwork.com, an exclusive, invite-only community comprised of some of the best-known and highly acclaimed CFOs and financial executives in the country, announced today that Cary Grossman with Shoreline Capital Advisors, will be joining the Houston network as a valued "Resource." - October 03, 2010 - MyCFOnetwork

United Mediation Services New Website Goes Live Today

www.unitedmediationservices.com Now Features State of The Art tools for credit collections. - October 02, 2010 - John Pillow

Georgia Commerce Club Grows to 1,000 Members in 10 Months

The Georgia Commerce Club, an interactive/commerce club, has rapidly grown to over 1,000 online members in just ten short months. Its dynamic design and content has enabled Georgia residents to network and grow their business simultaneously. - October 02, 2010 - NEXT Financial Group

Number of Uniastrum Bank SME Loans More Than Doubles

In the first half of 2010, Uniastrum issued small and midsized enterprises twice the amount of credit disbursed to this segment in the year-earlier period, placing it 6th by SME portfolio size in rankings released by RosBusinessConsulting news agency. - October 02, 2010 - Uniastrum Bank

Uniastrum Bank Charity Work Receives High Praise at IV Russian Banking Festival in Montenegro

Every year in Montenegro the Russian Banking Festival organized by the Association of Russian Banks and the National Bank Club brings together many of the leading lights of the banking sector. This year’s awards ceremony saw Uniastrum walk away with the “Most Charitable Bank” prize. - October 02, 2010 - Uniastrum Bank

New Prosperity Index Tool Helps Business Owners Gauge Financial Outlook

Respected financial planner develops quantitative analytics to set business owners on the path toward financial security. - October 01, 2010 - Wealth Advisory Associates

First Mortgage Broker from Dundee Scoops Barclays August Award

Dundee Mortgage Broker, Wendy Whyte, of First Mortgage Direct, has been recognised by Barclays as the leading Mortgage Broker in the UK for August. - September 30, 2010 - First Mortgage Direct Ltd

DocuLex Archive Studio Accounting Workflow Ability Incorporates QuickBooks and Dynamics GP

DocuLex Archive Studio Accounting Workflow Ability Incorporates QuickBooks and Dynamics GP

DocuLex (www.doculex.com), creators of content management solutions, announces the addition of its customizable, automated business process workflow capability to Archive Studio™. This addition extends Archive Studio’s ability to utilize a company’s existing customer data in popular accounting packages such as QuickBooks, by Intuit and Dynamics GP. - September 29, 2010 - DocuLex, Inc.

David Lloyd, Senior Principal with The Keystone Group Joins MyCFOnetwork

MyCFOnetwork.com, an exclusive, invite-only community comprised of some of the best-known and highly acclaimed CFOs and financial executives in the country, announced today that David Lloyd with The Keystone Group, will be joining the network as a valued "Resource." - September 29, 2010 - MyCFOnetwork

Chesswood Income Fund Announces Renewal and Expansion of Pawnee Leasing Corporation's Bank Credit Facility

Pawnee Leasing Corporation renewed and expanded its credit facility, for a term of three years. - September 29, 2010 - Pawnee Leasing Corporation

Axacore Announces the Appointment of Industry Veteran Steve DeBlasio

Axacore Announces the Appointment of Industry Veteran Steve DeBlasio

Axacore, a leading provider of appliance based document imaging solutions for the financial service industry, is pleased to announce the recent hire of Steve DeBlasio to the position of National Channel Sales Manager. “We are very happy to have Steve join our management team. His experience... - September 28, 2010 - Axacore Inc.

Pivotal Payments Announces 2010 Mid-Year Results

Pivotal Payments Announces 2010 Mid-Year Results

Pivotal Payments, one of North America’s fastest growing payment processors, announced their 2010 semi-annual results exceeded expectations in a variety of key indicators. - September 28, 2010 - Pivotal Payments

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