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         <title>Bank of Montreal Signs up for Dovetail Payment Services Hub</title> 
         <description>Bank of Montreal (BMO) has signed a contract to implement the Dovetail Payment Services Hub after the vendor won a competitive tender process. The installation, ....</description>
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         <title>Omikron's New Solution Suite Intended to Ease the Transition to SEPA</title> 
         <description>On the back of the EU decision to mandate February 2014 as the end date for the single euro payments area (SEPA), Germany-based vendor Omikron ....</description>
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         <title>ATK Names Neal Cohen CFO and Executive Vice President</title> 
         <description>ATK, an aerospace and defence firm with revenues of US$4.8bn, has made Neal Cohen executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). Effective from ....</description>
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         <title>Collis Unveils New Mobile Security Test Product</title> 
         <description>The Visa Mobile Specification (VMCPS) test suite from Collis is intended to perform functional testing of the UICC or secure element application on card scheme ....</description>
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         <title>Mining Exploration Group Appoints New CFO</title> 
         <description>Britannica Resources Corp has appointed Chris Hobbs to the position of chief financial officer (CFO) of the mining exploration group, which has large holdings in ....</description>
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         <title>Monthly Comparative Snapshot on European and US MMFs introduced by Fitch</title> 
         <description>Fitch has introduced a monthly money market fund (MMF) snapshot report comparing US and European MMFs from the credit rating agency's (CRA's) own datastream. The ....</description>
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         <title>Resolution of the Eurozone Crisis Critical for Banks, Say European Investors</title> 
         <description>Fitch Ratings' latest quarterly European fixed income investor survey, representing the views of managers of an estimated US$7.1 trillion of fixed income assets, shows the ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:11:33 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>KeyBank Appoints Alfred Carpetto to Lead Enterprise Commercial Payments Group</title> 
         <description>KeyBank has appointed Alfred Carpetto as executive vice president (EVP) and head of its enterprise commercial payments group. Carpetto will be based in Cleveland and ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:44 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>GigaMedia Appoints Dirk Chen as CFO</title> 
         <description>GigaMedia has appointed Dirk Chen as chief financial officer (CFO). During a 30-year career with Taiwan-based Chailease Finance, Chen served the company in different key ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:10 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Bloomberg Offers Vendors Access to API to Promote its Market Data</title> 
         <description>Bloomberg is opening its market data interfaces for use by technology professionals globally, without cost or restriction. Bloomberg's application programming interface, known as BLPAPI, is ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:09:23 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>TJX Promote Scott Goldenberg to CFO</title> 
         <description>The TJX Companies, a retailer of clothes and home fashions in the US and worldwide, has appointed Scott Goldenberg as chief financial officer (CFO), retaining ....</description>
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         <title>Safran Selects GTC's @GlobalTrade Multi-bank Trade Finance Platform </title> 
         <description>Safran, an international high-technology group and a Tier 1 supplier of systems and equipment for aerospace, defence and security, has Selected GTC's @GlobalTrade Multi-bank Trade ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:51:47 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Fokker Treasury Implements IT2 TMS</title> 
         <description>Fokker Technologies has selected the IT2 Treasury Management Solution (TMS), which will provide Fokker with enhanced financial infrastructure to accommodate growth across the five companies ....</description>
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         <title>Wells Fargo Extends Global Treasury Platform to Europe </title> 
         <description>Wells Fargo &amp; Company has extended its suite of cash management solutions to companies based in the UK and Europe that have strong business interests ....</description>
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         <title>Vitacost.com Names Brian Helman as CFO</title> 
         <description>Vitacost.com, an online retailer and direct marketer of health and wellness products, has named Brian Helman as chief financial officer (CFO). Helman will join the ....</description>
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         <title>Ecobank Deploys Oracle Flexcube and Oracle Financial Services Risk Analytics </title> 
         <description>Pan-African bank Ecobank Transnational has implemented Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking and Direct Banking solutions, as well as Oracle Financial Services Risk Analytics, to standardise its ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:48:14 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Hibbett Announces CFO Gary Smith's Retirement </title> 
         <description>Hibbett Sports, a sporting goods retailer, has announced that Gary Smith, senior vice president (SVP) and chief financial officer (CFO), is retiring effective 1 June ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:46:08 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Vista Equity Partners Acquires Thomson Reuters Trade and Risk Management Business</title> 
         <description>Vista Equity Partners has completed its acquisition of Thomson Reuters Trade and Risk Management business following the agreement that was announced on 23 September, 2011. ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:45:15 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>UK Attracts US$4.8 trillion in Sovereign Investment </title> 
         <description>Assets under management of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) increased for the third year running in 2011 to a record US$4.8 trillion, according to TheCityUK's report ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:44:14 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>JP Morgan Completes eBAM Central Utility Pilot</title> 
         <description>JP Morgan Treasury Services, a provider of cash management, trade finance and treasury solutions, has completed its electronic bank account management (eBAM) central utility pilot ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:27:48 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Asia-Pacific Liquidity Study Shows Reliance on Domestic Banking Systems</title> 
         <description>Fitch Ratings' liquidity study on Asia-Pacific corporates points to lower levels of liquidity than their developed market peers. Attributable reasons include the lack of committed ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:26:48 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>MDC Holdings Names John Stephens as SVP and CFO</title> 
         <description>MDC Holdings, a large US homebuilder, has appointed John Stephens as senior vice president (SVP), chief financial officer (CFO) and principal accounting officer (PAO), effective ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:26:03 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>P2 Energy Solutions Hires Chad Martin as CFO</title> 
         <description>P2 Energy Solutions, an independent software and services provider to the upstream oil and gas industry, has hired Chad Martin as chief financial officer (CFO). ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:25:40 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Inaugural Meeting of the FSB Regional Consultative Group for the CIS</title> 
         <description>The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation hosted the inaugural meeting of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) regional consultative group for the Commonwealth of ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:25:17 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Adrian Keen Joins Anesco as Financial Controller </title> 
         <description>UK energy efficiency solutions company, Anesco, has hired Adrian Keen as financial controller. Anesco works with local authorities, businesses and homeowners looking to reduce their ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:24:19 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>gtnews Readers Foresee a European Credit Rating Agency </title> 
         <description>A large majority of respondents to a gtnews online poll, held last week on our homepage, think that the recent downgrading of France by Standard ....</description>
         <link>http://www.gtnews.com/news.cfm?id=17272</link>
         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:55:31 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Macro-economic Risk Keeps Bankers Awake at Night, Finds CSFI Survey </title> 
         <description>The risk of another global recession and a renewed banking crisis is high, according to a new survey of the dangers currently facing the world's ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:42:03 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Industry Should Move to a New Architecture for Payments, Says BoE's Chris Salmon</title> 
         <description>In a speech delivered at the BAFT-IFSA Global Annual Meeting in London on 24 January 2012, Chris Salmon, executive director for banking services and chief ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:38:11 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Cafe Enterprises Appoints Fred Grant, Jr as CFO of Fatz</title> 
         <description>Cafe Enterprises has appointed Fred Grant, Jr as chief financial officer (CFO) of Fatz, a chain of 49 restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and ....</description>
         <link>http://www.gtnews.com/news.cfm?id=17265</link>
         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:37:15 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Mobiquity Names Michael Bayer as CFO</title> 
         <description>Mobiquity, a mobile-focused professional services start-up, has named Michael Bayer as chief financial officer (CFO). Launched in March 2011, Mobiquity has already grown through a ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:36:45 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>BBA Welcomes UK Financial Services Bill </title> 
         <description>Banks fully support, and have been working towards, the overhaul of banking regulation in the UK, according to the British Bankers' Association (BBA), in light ....</description>
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         <title>Axmin Promotes Janina Dusza to CFO </title> 
         <description>Axmin, a Canadian exploration and development company with a strong focus on central and West Africa, has promoted Janina Dusza to chief financial officer (CFO). ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:35:43 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Raiffeisen Bank International Launches CardMobile </title> 
         <description>Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), with the support of SIX Card Solutions, is continuing to pioneer payments innovation in Austria through the launch of CardMobile, ....</description>
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         <title>Oman International Bank Selects SunGard's Ambit Treasury Management</title> 
         <description>Oman International Bank (OIB), a retail and commercial bank in Oman, has selected SunGard's Ambit Treasury Management, Ambit Asset Liability Management (ALM) and Ambit Credit ....</description>
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         <title>Leap Wireless CFO Walter Berger to Leave Company</title> 
         <description>Leap Wireless International, a provider of wireless communications services, has announced that executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO) Walter Berger will be ....</description>
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         <title>Eurozone Crisis Continues to Drive Global Credit Outlook, Says Fitch</title> 
         <description>Fitch Ratings says in its latest bi-annual global credit outlook report that the intensification of the eurozone crisis in 2H11 triggered an overall rise in ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:29:01 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>David Brown Joins MoneyGram as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer</title> 
         <description>MoneyGram International, a global money transfer company, has hired David Brown as senior vice president (SVP) and chief accounting officer (CAO). The CAO position was ....</description>
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         <title>AMS Selects Earthport to Support International Payroll Services </title> 
         <description>Active Management Services (ME) (AMS), the global facilities management company, has selected Earthport to provide cross-border payment services. The Earthport service, which is now live, ....</description>
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         <title>Anaconda Mining Appoints Errol Farr as CFO</title> 
         <description>Anaconda Mining, a Canadian gold mining and exploration company, has appointed J Errol Farr, certified management accountant (CMA), as chief financial officer (CFO). Farr is ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Kyriba Names Henri Pidault as EVP and Managing Director of IT</title> 
         <description>Kyriba, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based treasury management systems (TMS) company, has appointed Henri Pidault as executive vice president (EVP) and managing director of IT, technology and ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:22:37 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Misys Signs IBM Software Licensing Deal to Help Banks' Business</title> 
         <description>Misys, a global application software and services company, has selected IBM software to help power its BankFusion platform and help banks develop new processes or ....</description>
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         <title>FIS Launches Cloud-based Mobile Payments Solution</title> 
         <description>FIS, a provider of banking and payments technology, has launched a mobile payments solution that allows consumers to use most smartphones to make purchases at ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:20:46 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Revera Selects AvantGard to Automate Treasury, Cash and Debt Management </title> 
         <description>Revera, a provider of seniors' accommodation, care and services, has selected SunGard's AvantGard Treasury to help automate treasury, cash and debt management. The AvantGard Treasury ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:31:27 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Agencyport Software Hires Richard Gilbody as CFO</title> 
         <description>Agencyport Software (formerly Sword Insurance), a provider of software and services to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, has hired Richard Gilbody as chief financial ....</description>
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         <title>Fundtech and Dataline Partner for E-invoicing in Asia-Pacific</title> 
         <description>Fundtech, a global transaction banking solutions company, has partnered with Dataline, an Australian payment solution and services company, to offer electronic invoice presentment and payment ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:30:02 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Cashflows Joins SWIFT Network</title> 
         <description>Cashflows, part of the Voice Commerce Group, has become a member of SWIFT, the financial messaging consortium. The relationship builds on Cashflows existing membership of ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Global Survey Reveals Most Companies Naive When it Comes to Energy Management </title> 
         <description>More than half (58%) of companies surveyed have not heard of the term 'carbon accounting', less than a quarter could accurately describe what the term ....</description>
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         <title>Mediware Promotes Robert Watkins to CFO</title> 
         <description>Mediware Information Systems, a healthcare software systems company, has promoted Robert Watkins to chief financial officer (CFO), effective 15 February 2012. Watkins has served as ....</description>
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         <title>National Bank of Tajikistan Launches National Processing Centre </title> 
         <description>National Bank of Tajikistan, with help from Compass Plus, has gone live with a national processing centre in under six months. The bank selected Compass ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:17:23 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Basel III Will Hit the Real Economy, Say Corporate Treasurers </title> 
         <description>Over half (57%) of corporate treasurers in western Europe expect that Basel III regulations will have a negative impact on their company's performance, according to ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:11:58 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Target Promotes John Mulligan to CFO</title> 
         <description>Target, a global retailer, has promoted John Mulligan, senior vice president (SVP), finance to executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO), effective 1 ....</description>
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         <title>Phoenix Managed Networks to Launch in Europe</title> 
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         <link>http://www.gtnews.com/news.cfm?id=17222</link>
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         <title>AppNexus Names Bruce Cooperman as CFO </title> 
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         <title>Himax Technologies Appoints Jackie Chang to Head Up Finance</title> 
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         <title>De Beers Appoints Gareth Mostyn as CFO</title> 
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         <title>Ascent Resources Selects The Currency Club as FX Provider</title> 
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         <title>Corporate Treasurers Putting Contingency Plans in Place, Says IT2 </title> 
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         <title>diaDexus Names Jean-Frederic Viret, PhD, as CFO</title> 
         <description>diaDexus, a diagnostics company focused on patent-protected in vitro diagnostic products, has appointed Jean-Frederic Viret, PhD, as its chief financial officer (CFO), effective 1 February ....</description>
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         <title>Waird Telecom and Obopay Launch Waird Pesa in Uganda</title> 
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         <title>Wolters Kluwer Appoints Dharpan Koul as Head of Professional Services in India </title> 
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         <title>JP Morgan Enhances Web Currency Services Portal</title> 
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         <title>SolarBridge Hires Judd Rabb, CPA, as CFO and Vice President of Finance</title> 
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         <title>Fincad Launches Basics of Hedge Accounting Whitepaper Series </title> 
         <description>Fincad, an over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives solutions company, is working with KPMG, the Canadian member firm of KPMG International, to produce a whitepaper series on the ....</description>
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         <title>Ruby Tuesday Announces Retirement of CFO Marguerite Duffy</title> 
         <description>Ruby Tuesday, a restaurant chain, has announced that Marguerite Duffy, chief financial officer (CFO), will retire from her position effective 5 June 2012. A long-time ....</description>
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         <title>Tyhee Gold Appoints Harjinder Gill as CFO</title> 
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         <title>A Majority of Bankers Think Singapore's Immediate Payments Will Have a Positive Effect </title> 
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         <title>MarketAxess Approved to Trade Local Currency Debt in Brazil</title> 
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         <title>Basware Acquires German E-invoice Network First Businesspost </title> 
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         <title>Maplecroft Risk Atlas Identifies Risk Hotspots and Investment Opportunities</title> 
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         <title>Newham College Improves P2P Processes with Version One</title> 
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         <title>Liberty Silver Appoints Manish Kshatriya as EVP and CFO</title> 
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         <title>Robert Walters Opens Nanjing Office </title> 
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         <title>Sodexo North America Names Olivier Poirot as CFO</title> 
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         <title>SeaChange's CFO Kevin Bisson Resigns </title> 
         <description>Multi-screen video company SeaChange International's chief financial officer (CFO) Kevin Bisson has resigned to accept a position at another publicly traded company. Bisson served as ....</description>
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         <title>Experian and American Express Partner on International Payments </title> 
         <description>Experian and American Express have partnered to offer international payment processing and foreign exchange (FX) services to Experian's UK clients. The deal will make it ....</description>
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         <description>AsiaPay, an online and mobile payment services firm in Asia, has launched the PayDollar Debit Payment Service, a payment option for the Asia-Pacific region.The service ....</description>
         <link>http://www.gtnews.com/news.cfm?id=17138</link>
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         <title>LeadMaster Appoints Sócrates Jiménez as CFO</title> 
         <description>LeadMaster, a customer relationship management (CRM) and inside sales services company focused on the Asia-Pacific region, has hired Sócrates Jiménez as chief financial officer (CFO). ....</description>
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         <title>Defensive Investing Still Rules in 2012 but Prepare for Global Rebalancing</title> 
         <description>Wealthy investors are exploring long-term strategies to reposition investment portfolios in anticipation of global rebalancing, according to the US Trust 2012 Investment Strategy Overview.In the ....</description>
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         <description>Fico, a provider of analytics and decision management technology, has released its analysis of data showing that major shifts have occurred in European card fraud ....</description>
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         <title>Eurozone Future to be Decided at the 'Gates of Rome'</title> 
         <description>Italy is at the forefront of the euro countries that could see their credit ratings downgraded by the end of January, according to Fitch Ratings. ....</description>
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         <title>Asian Corporate Treasuries Not Effective Enough Against Global Financial Crises, Says Reval</title> 
         <description>With the possible collapse of the eurozone causing companies globally to prepare for the impact of another financial crisis, only 11% of Asian corporate treasuries ....</description>
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         <title>Sun Products Appoints Al Drewes as CFO</title> 
         <description>Sun Products has hired Al Drewes as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). Drewes will be responsible for all aspects of financial ....</description>
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         <description>PNC Bank, the sixth-largest depository bank by assets and one of the largest treasury management providers in the US, has joined International Banking One Solution ....</description>
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         <title>Delta Lloyd Group Implements Clear2Pay's Corporate Payment Hub SEPA Solution </title> 
         <description>Delta Lloyd Group (NL), a Dutch insurer, is implementing Clear2Pay's Corporate Payment Hub single euro payments area (SEPA) solution to power the group's new group-wide ....</description>
         <link>http://www.gtnews.com/news.cfm?id=17130</link>
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         <title>SPX CFO Patrick O'Leary to Retire; Jeremy Smeltser Named CFO</title> 
         <description>SPX, a global Fortune 500 multi-industry manufacturer, has announced that Patrick O'Leary will retire as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO), effective ....</description>
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         <description>RBS has announced changes to its wholesale banking operations to ensure it continues to deliver against the group's strategy announced in 2009. The changes follow ....</description>
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         <title>China Direct Industries Names Hernan Grant Welch as CFO</title> 
         <description>China Direct Industries, a US-based company that produces, sources and distributes industrial commodities in China and the Americas, has named Hernan Grant Welch as executive ....</description>
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         <title>Outlook for UK Commercial Property Hit by Economic Uncertainty</title> 
         <description>Falling occupier demand and increasing availability drove down commercial property rental expectations in 4Q11, according to the RICS UK Commercial Market Survey (11 January 2012).Overall ....</description>
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         <description>Visa Inc and Visa Europe have certified near-field communication (NFC)-enabled smartphones from Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Research in Motion (RIM) for use with Visa's ....</description>
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         <title>Economic and Social Turmoil Risk Reversing the Gains of Globalisation, WEF Warns</title> 
         <description>The world's vulnerability to further economic shocks and social upheaval risk undermining the progress that globalisation has brought, warns the World Economic Forum (WEF) in ....</description>
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         <title>The Donkey Sanctuary Chooses Advanced to Deliver Real-time Reporting</title> 
         <description>International animal welfare charity, the Donkey Sanctuary, which provides sanctuary for 14,500 donkeys in 29 countries, is implementing a suite of integrated financial management (OpenAccounts), ....</description>
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         <title>Optimism in Domestically-oriented Economies and Energy Sector in 2012, Says Standard Chartered </title> 
         <description>Standard Chartered has released the conclusions of its inaugural corporate sentiment survey conducted by the bank's equity research team. Key conclusions focus on optimism among ....</description>
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         <title>SMEs Need Confidence to Export, Warns Raphaels Bank </title> 
         <description>Following the British Chambers of Commerce's (BCC) quarterly report and comments from John Longworth, director general, that the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market needs ....</description>
         <link>http://www.gtnews.com/news.cfm?id=17119</link>
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         <title>FSB Develops Work Plans for 2012</title> 
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         <title>BSI Seeks Industry Input in New Standard for Financial Advice Firms </title> 
         <description>A new standard for financial advice is now available for public consultation and views are being sought from practitioners, firms and consumer organisations. Developed by ....</description>
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         <title>SWIFT Wins T2S Connectivity Licence</title> 
         <description>SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced that following a public procurement process run by ....</description>
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         <title>Nets and PayX International Extend Payments Consultancy Partnership </title> 
         <description>PayX International, an international payments company, and Nets, a Nordic and northern European payments provider, have signed a five-year partnership agreement for the continued provision ....</description>
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         <title>NACHA Council Elects Chairpersons for 2012-2014 </title> 
         <description>NACHA, the electronic payments association, has elected chairpersons for three of its councils: the Internet Council (TIC), Council for Electronic Billing and Payment (CEBP), and ....</description>
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         <title>Discovery Communications Names Andrew Warren as CFO</title> 
         <description>Discovery Communications has appointed Liz Claiborne and former General Electric (GE)/NBC Universal executive Andrew Warren as senior executive vice president (SEVP) and chief financial officer ....</description>
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         <description>Misys, a treasury, capital markets and banking software solutions company, has opened a new centre of excellence in Beijing, the latest of six such facilities ....</description>
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         <title>SWIFT Whitepaper: Correspondent Banking 3.0 </title> 
         <description>In a new whitepaper, SWIFT unveils its vision for a customer-centric, 'experience banking' model - entitled Correspondent Banking 3.0 - where customers are the trigger ....</description>
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         <title>O2 Appoints Mark Evans as CFO of Telefonica UK</title> 
         <description>O2 has appointed Mark Evans as chief financial officer (CFO) of Telefonica UK. Evans will serve on the Telefonica UK board and report to Ronan ....</description>
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         <title>BOKF Chooses ACI for Corporate Online Banking and Fraud Detection </title> 
         <description>BOK Financial (BOKF) has selected ACI Enterprise Banker to create a single platform for online banking for its commercial customer base. BOKF will also deploy ....</description>
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         <title>China Yuchai International Appoints Kok Ho Leong as CFO</title> 
         <description>China Yuchai International has appointed Kok Ho Leong as chief financial officer (CFO). Leong takes over from Benny Goh, president of the company who took ....</description>
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         <description>SIA and Colt have won the tender for the licence for the design, creation and management of the new network infrastructure to connect central depositories ....</description>
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         <title>Raiffeisen Bank Poland and First Data Expand Collaboration </title> 
         <description>Raiffeisen Bank Poland has expanded its co-operation First Data Corporation, a electronic commerce (e-commerce) and payment processing company. First Data's Polish business will provide card ....</description>
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         <title>Philipp Hildebrand Resigns as FSB Vice Chairman </title> 
         <description>The vice chairman of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Philipp Hildebrand, has resigned as chairman of the board of the Swiss National Bank, and consequently ....</description>
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         <description>At the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision's (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, meeting on 8 January 2012, ....</description>
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         <description>The volume of business in UK financial services grew for the seventh quarter running, and at the fastest pace since June 2007, in the three ....</description>
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         <title>SunGard Acquires Syntesys to Expand SWIFT Connectivity and Services </title> 
         <description>SunGard has completed its acquisition of Syntesys, a European SWIFT service bureau and network of business and technical experts dedicated to serving the SWIFT community. ....</description>
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         <title>Integrated Electrical Services Promotes Robert Lewey as CFO</title> 
         <description>Integrated Electrical Services, a US national provider of electrical infrastructure services to the communications, commercial, industrial and residential markets, has promoted Robert Lewey to senior ....</description>
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         <title>2011 European Markets: Stock Performance Demonstrated Defensive Investing Benefits </title> 
         <description>The Russell Europe Defensive Index reflected an annual return of +0.5% in 2011, outperforming both its dynamic counterpart, the Russell Europe Dynamic Index, which posted ....</description>
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         <title>Geron Appoints Graham Cooper as CFO</title> 
         <description>Geron, a biopharmaceutical company developing cancer therapeutics, has appointed Graham Cooper as executive vice president (EVP), finance and business development and chief financial officer (CFO). ....</description>
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         <title>Marsh and Guy Carpenter Launch Managing Agency for Nuclear Firms </title> 
         <description>Marsh and its sister company, global risk and reinsurance intermediary services provider Guy Carpenter, have created Northcourt, providing insight on the existing nuclear insurance and ....</description>
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         <title>Saba Appoints Elaine Kitagawa as CFO</title> 
         <description>Saba, a people cloud provider, has appointed Elaine Kitagawa as chief financial officer (CFO). Kitagawa will assume responsibility for global finance and operations and report ....</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:02:03 GMT</pubDate>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:58:55 GMT</pubDate>
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