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Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group, Corp Announces AJ Franchi Named Mortgage Professional America’s Hot 100 2015 Honoree

AJ Franchi, Chief Information Officer for Gold Star Mortgage, has been named among Mortgage Professional Magazine’s Hot 100 2015. - January 05, 2015 - Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group

Deltastock Receives Membership Approval by ATHEXClear

Last week investment brokerage Deltastock AD was officially approved as a derivative clearing partner of ATHEXClear, the clearing house servicing the SIBEX stock exchange in Romania. This makes Deltastock the only Bulgarian broker to receive membership approval by the ATHEXClear Board of... - December 25, 2014 - Deltastock

Nolan Financial Appoints James C. Bailey to Board of Directors

Nolan Financial is proud to announce that James C. Bailey has joined its Board of Directors. - December 23, 2014 - Nolan Financial

The Wood Fiber Costs for the World’s Hardwood Pulp-Producing Mills Have Declined in 2014

Reduced pulpwood prices in Sweden, Russia, Brazil and Australia in the 3Q/14 resulted in the lowest Hardwood Fiber Price Index (HFPI) since 2009, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. With mixed price trends for softwood fiber, the Softwood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) has been fairly stable the past two years. - December 20, 2014 - Wood Resources International LLC

Ken Walters Joins MatsSoft Board of Directors as Non-Executive Chairman and Tom Briones Named Group COO as Significant Growth Continues

Low-code development platform specialist MatsSoft (www.MatsSoft.com) today announced the appointment of former Infor Global Solutions President & COO Ken Walters as Non-Executive Chairman and ICM Corporation’s former CEO Tom Briones as Group COO. - December 19, 2014 - MatsSoft

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Announces Recapitalization of Global Franchise Group

Transaction provided working capital and helped pay a shareholder dividend. - December 19, 2014 - Levine Leichtman Capital Partners

Wealth DNA Radio Show Hosts 5th in Series of Informative Interviews on Financial Literacy and Responsibility with Guest Larry Winget on 12/22/14 at 9am AZ Time

Wealth DNA Radio discusses Financial Responsibility, specifically focusing on who is responsible for your financial literacy or lack thereof? - December 19, 2014 - Wealth DNA radio

Gary Williams and Williams Asset Management Named One of Howard County’s Best Financial Advisors

Gary Williams, CFP®, President of Williams Asset Management in Columbia, MD, has been recognized as one of the area’s top financial advisors in The Baltimore Sun’s prestigious “Best of Howard 2014” list. The firm’s honorable mention in the “financial... - December 19, 2014 - Williams Asset Management

Nolan Financial Sets High Industry Standard with Ninth Consecutive Unqualified SSAE 16 II Report

Nolan Financial has obtained the SSAE-16 II audit report with no exceptions noted for nine consecutive years. - December 15, 2014 - Nolan Financial

Nikitas Kouimanis Earns Lending Integrity Seal of Approval Achieves Status for Professionalism in the Mortgage Business

Maverick Funding Corp today announced that Nikitas Kouimanis has earned the Lending Integrity Seal of Approval from the National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB). The new seal recognizes individual brokers and loan officers who meet the industry’s highest standards for knowledge,... - December 15, 2014 - Nikitas Kouimanis The Mortgage Expert

Randy Kricke to Host Safe Money and Income Radio Show

Financial Adviser Randy Kricke Discusses Safe Wealth-Building Strategies. - December 13, 2014 - Randolph Kricke

Energized Corps Program “2015 Goals” Launched Offering an Irresistible Proposition to HR, CEO, Managers, to Achieve Higher Productivity and ROI for 2015

End Burn Out, recognized experts in stress management and productivity solutions, recently announced their “Energized Corps” program that gives managers a proven way to energize their work force, increase productivity, raise ROI and reduce stress in the workplace. Now with "Energized Corps 2015 Goals" End Burn Out is calling for ten select businesses nationwide and in Canada to enjoy greater productivity and ROI. - December 11, 2014 - End Burn Out

Exchange Data International Enhances Securities Reference Data Services with Inclusion of GICS®

Data reference service specialist Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has enhanced its securities reference data offering with the addition of Global Industry Classification Standards (GICS®). - December 10, 2014 - Exchange Data International

AlgoTrades Partners with Interactive Brokers Canada to Offer Automated Trading of Futures & ETFs

AlgoTrades announces their API (Application Programming Interface) integration with Interactive Brokers to off Canadians in all provinces including British Columbia and the territories with automated future and ETF trading systems. - December 08, 2014 - AlgoTrades.net

Facebook and Display Advertising Should be Credited for 830% More Revenue Than Previously Thought

The study by Datalicious of more than 700 million media touch points examined each of the advertising channels consumers "touched" – a method known as "multi-touch attribution." According to the CEO of Datalicious, Christian Bartens, display advertising is undervalued in most current models, which has led to ineffective media budget allocation over the years. Accurate attribution results from the study demonstrate that display and Facebook ads should be credited for 830% more revenue on average. - December 08, 2014 - Datalicious

Solomon Exam Prep Partners with Boston Institute of Finance and Bryant University to Offer CFP Exam Prep

In response to the demand for CFP Exam Prep products, Solomon Exam Prep has partnered with Boston Institute of Finance and Bryant University. - December 06, 2014 - Solomon Exam Prep

Opus Bio to License CD22 CAR T Cell Technology to Juno

Opus Bio, Inc., today announced that Juno Therapeutics, Inc. has entered into an agreement to obtain a license for the company’s CAR-T cell product candidate targeting CD22, a protein expressed on most B cell leukemias and lymphomas. The CD22-targeted CAR T cell product candidate was... - December 05, 2014 - Biomark Capital

Lombardia Properties Partners Set New Benchmark with Industry Leading Track-Record and Performance for Fix & Flips and Turn-Key Income Properties

Lombardia Properties, a Dallas, Texas based leader in Turn-key Income Properties and Strategic Fix & Flip Investment Opportunities continues to set a new benchmark with an Industry Leading Track-Record and Performance. The partners in Lombardia have one of the longest and most successful track-records in the single-family real estate sector with projects dating back to 1999. - December 05, 2014 - Lombardia

MILSTE's The Taiwan International Banking Award Ceremony 2015

MILSTE’s The Taiwan International Banking Award Programme is the most transparent, prestigious and respected consumer banking awards programme in Taiwan. MILSTE evaluated all the country’s banks’ consumer banking accomplishments, capabilities, and technologies with our International Board of Judges and our team of analysts in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The winners were determined through a thorough evaluation of the submission and interviews. - December 04, 2014 - MILSTE

Greenwood Management: Project Returns Expected to Achieve Above Expected Rates

Greenwood Management announces its 2014 forestry investment projects are expected to exceed expected rates set in 2008. - December 02, 2014 - Greenwood Management

DHFL Signs Shah Rukh Khan as Brand Ambassador

DHFL, India’s second largest housing finance company in the private sector today announced Mr. Shah Rukh Khan as its Brand Ambassador. This is the Company's first such brand association in its 30 year journey of providing financial access for home buying amongst Indian customers. Mr. Kapil... - November 27, 2014 - DHFL

Donlen Launches Enhanced Driver Management System

Donlen is pleased to announce the rollout of its enhanced Driver Management system. As the newest feature to FleetWeb®, the fleet industry’s leading fleet management solution, fleet managers will now be able to manage all of their vehicle and driver information from one streamlined... - November 25, 2014 - Donlen

BancdeOptions to Open New Office in Singapore

It’s official, BancdeOptions CEO is announcing the opening of its second representative office since the beginning of the year in Singapore, the first being in Hong Kong for the Asian market. Sam Perkins, BancdeOptions VP for Business Development who is just returning from Hong Kong is... - November 24, 2014 - BancdeOptions

New Ezcheckpersonal Software Offered at No Cost for Michigan Customers Using Mac or Windows

EzCheckpersonal software for MAC or Windows computers gives Michigan customers a no cost opportunity. New customers can get details by visiting www.halfpricesoft.com. - November 21, 2014 - Halfpricesoft

Popular Commercial Lending Group Introduces Affiliate Program for Agricultural Loans

Popular Commercial Lending Group (PCLG) has introduced a new Affiliate Loan Program (ALP) for smaller community Banks and Credit Unions around the country seeking to capitalize on agricultural loan business. Since many smaller community Banks and Credit Unions are under capitalized and/or have... - November 20, 2014 - Popular Commercial Lending Group

Midcoast Properties, Inc. Sells Six Property Self Storage Portfolio

Storage Village, a six property self storage portfolio in Georgia, with over 434,000 rentable square feet and over 3,100 self storage units, was sold recently to Danbury Road Holdings, IV, LLC, dba Store Here. Multiple offers were received for this portfolio which sold in mid November. Dale C. - November 19, 2014 - Midcoast Properties, Inc.

GSF Mortgage Welcomes Second Branch in New Jersey

GSF Mortgage is pleased to welcome Bill DiBernardo as branch manager in Bricktown, New Jersey. DiBernardo comes to TeamGO with more than 10 years of experience in the mortgage industry. He is a Certified Mortgage Planning Specialist with the CMPS Institute, a designation achieved by less than 10... - November 19, 2014 - GoGSF

The Boulder Group Arranges Sale of a $39 Million Single Tenant Walgreens Portfolio

Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction. - November 18, 2014 - The Boulder Group

The Publication of the Controversial List of Hidden Company Directors Links Under "Right to be Forgotten" Hits International Media

Fortune magazine published an article about the consequences of the Right to be Forgotten directive applied to company directors information after a business information company released the list of removed director profiles in the UK & Spain, causing immediate reactions. - November 17, 2014 - Dato Capital

Lombardia Properties Expands Turn-Key Income Property Investment Opportunities for Investors with 10-30% ROI

Lombardia Properties, a leader in the turn-key Income Property sector, announced today that it continues to expand its income producing rental property investment services focused on generating 10% to 30%+ returns. Lombardia’s growth follows the increased demand for income producing... - November 16, 2014 - Lombardia

Wilde Agency Honored with Silver Award at the DMA International Echo Awards

At the DMA International ECHO™ Awards Wilde Agency took home the silver for their “win back” campaign in the Financial Products and Services category. The ECHO Awards honor exceptional creativity, marketing strategy, and response results. - November 15, 2014 - Universal Wilde

Datamatics Global Services H1FY15 Consolidated Net Sales Up 31.5% YoY at Rs. 416.62 Crore EBIDTA Increased by 24.92%

Datamatics Global Services announced the financial results for the first half year and quarter ended as on September 30, 2014. - November 15, 2014 - Datamatics

Globe Composite Solutions Hires William Fletcher as VP of Finance

25-year industry veteran chosen to lead Globe Composite Solutions' finance, accounting, IT and human resource efforts. - November 14, 2014 - Globe Composite Solutions

Mission Federal Credit Union Donates $1 Million to Support JA Finance Park, a Program of Junior Achievement of San Diego County

Mission Federal Credit Union has donated $1 million and becomes naming sponsor in support of Junior Achievement of San Diego County’s Mission Fed JA Finance Park program, focused on increasing the financial literacy of San Diego high school students. - November 12, 2014 - Mission Federal Credit Union

Cushman & Wakefield Announces Sale of Nine-Building Industrial Portfolio in Boca Raton

Cushman & Wakefield announced today it has sold nine industrial buildings totaling 357,606 square feet in the Boca Raton area, part of the highly sought after South Florida industrial market. The buildings, part of the South Florida Industrial portfolio, are in three locations: the McNab... - November 12, 2014 - Cushman & Wakefield, Tampa Division

Cushman & Wakefield Announces Sale of Sabal Park for $48.7 Million

Sabal Park Portfolio, a collection of nine office properties located in Tampa Bay’s I-75 Corridor submarket in eastern Hillsborough County, has been sold for $48.7 million, Cushman & Wakefield announced today. The properties total 518,338 square feet of office space. They... - November 12, 2014 - Cushman & Wakefield, Tampa Division

Kiosk Innova Launches the Latest Self-Service Payment Kiosks

Kiosk Innova, Turkey’s leading kiosk producer, has launched two brand new product families, the Curve and Duet series. With their innovative design, the Curve and Duet models have been specially developed to offer convenient solutions for self-service check-in, payment and ticketing operations. - November 12, 2014 - Kiosk Innova

Lakefront Living Realty, LLC Releases Market Value Calculator for Lakefront Property

Placing a market value on lakefront homes has been inherently difficult due to the intangible variables associated with the lake itself. The new “CalcuLAKEr©” feature on LakefrontLiving.com looks to solve that problem. - November 11, 2014 - Lakefront Living International, LLC

Microsoft ERP Reseller InterDyn BMI Announces New Development in Kronos Relationship

Leading Microsoft Dynamics reseller InterDyn BMI announced a new development in its relationship with Kronos Incorporated. InterDyn BMI now provides customers of both Kronos and InterDyn BMI with modules offering two-way integration between Microsoft Dynamics ERP applications and the Kronos... - November 11, 2014 - InterDyn BMI, A Columbus Company

Raleigh, NC Executive Forum Features Sandler Training® President & CEO

Sandler Training CEO, president and best-selling author, Dave Mattson addressed a group of Raleigh, NC business owners and executive leaders on “Building a World-Class Sales Team” by implementing a consistent sales system while supervising and motivating to shorten sales cycles and drive revenue. - November 10, 2014 - Sandler Training Sales Matters

Books-A-Million to Hold Signing for Local Author Gary Williams

Gary Williams will be signing his retirement planning book, "The Art of Retirement," at the Hanover, MD Books-A-Million location on December 14, 2014 between 2:00PM and 4:00PM. "The Art of Retirement," with Foreword by former San Francisco 49er, NFL Legend and Hall of Famer,... - November 09, 2014 - Williams Asset Management

Wealth DNA Radio Show Hosts 3rd in Series of Informative Interviews on Financial Literacy and Responsibility with Guest Gregg Murset of My Job Chart 11/10/14 9am AZ Time

Wealth DNA Radio discusses Financial Responsibility, specifically focusing on educating children, with Special Guest Gregg Murset Founder and CEO of My Job Chart. - November 08, 2014 - Wealth DNA radio

Cyril Roseman Recognized by National Alliance of Male Executives-N.A.M.E.

Cyril Roseman of Ramona, California has been recognized by the National Alliance of Male Executives-N.A.M.E. for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of financial consulting. About Cyril Roseman Dr. Roseman has 22 years experience in the financial field. He is a FINRA... - November 07, 2014 - N.A.M.E.

Strategic Partnership Shakes Up Supply Chain Finance Market in the Middle East & Turkey

Partnership between PrimeRevenue and UbiQ Innovations brings best of breed Supply Chain Finance solution offering to the Middle East & Turkey. - November 07, 2014 - UbiQ Turkey

PyxPay to Adopt Apple Touch ID to Increase Transaction Security

PyxPay is to enhance its existing merchant and account holder security features by employing fingerprint recognition through the Apple Touch ID. This technology will be implemented across all Pyxpay system modules to benefit its clients using Apple devices with Touch ID. Apple Touch ID is an... - November 06, 2014 - PyxPay Corporation

Oil Trading Academy Showing Daily Trading Videos for the Public

The website "Oil Trading Academy" is producing some very impressive videos for public display at their YouTube channel showing their daily trading, they seem to be onto something that many traders are probably going to be interested in. - November 03, 2014 - Oil Trading Academy

BDA Receives Multiple Awards for Its Work in 2014

Business Development Asia LLC (“BDA”) is pleased to have won the following awards, in addition to various awards won earlier in the year. · Acquisition of the Year for the acquisition of Vinh Hoan Feed (Vietnam) by Pilmico (Philippines), at the Vietnam M&A Forum ·... - November 01, 2014 - BDA Partners Ltd